PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 3 
MiKDORO, Cuming 1561 (cotype). Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Zam- 
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boanga, Merrill S-'/OS. - 
Endemic. 
3. Boehmeria villosa sp. nov. 
Boehmeria IJumei Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 404, non Wedd. 1. c. 
Boelimeriae blumei admodum siinilis, sed differt foliis oppositis hand 
valde inaequimagnis; glomerulis axillaribus, monoicis vel dioicis, perian- 
thio pistillifero tridentato, piloso, ovario loTige acuminato, stigmate 
filiforme uno latere piloso: foliis ovatis, basi rotundatis emarginatis, 
margine dentatis, apice acuminatis, pagina siiperiore scabris^ subtus 
petiolisque sericeo-villosis. 
Monoecious and dioecious: glomerules axillan^, those from opposite 
leaves often confluent or nearly so, up to 1 cm in diameter, sessile: 
staminate flowers subtended by oblanceolale to obovate bracts 1.5 to 3 
mm long, the pedicels varying with the .stage of development to 3 mm 
in length; perianth deeply 4-parted, the segments ovate, acuminate, 
ciliate, 1 to 1.5 mm long; filaments about 2 mm long; anthers 0.5 mm 
long: pistillate glomerules with the bracts and pedicels as in the stami- 
nate; perianth free from the ovary but closely inclosing it, remaining 
membranaceous, strongly narrowed above the ovary and surrounding 
its bealc, 3-toothed, 2 to 3.5 mm long, pilose on the back and especially 
at the apex; ovary ellipsoid, compressed, about 1.2 mm long, at tihe 
apex contracted into a beak about two-thirds its length, the beak narrowed 
srm 
long and pilose along one side. 
Stems woody at the base, branching at the base and widely or slightly 
above, more or less angled, increasingly villose-tomentose toward the 
apex: leaves opposite, the petioles of those of a pair distinctly unequal, 
of mature leaves about 1 to 1.5 cm and 2 to 2.5 cm respectively, 
lamina subchai-taccous, ovate, the opposing similar and unequal in size, 
but never greatly reduced, the larger 9 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 4.5 cm 
wide, the smaller 5 to 7 cm long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm wide, all inequilateral 
at the rounded slightly emarginate entire base, the margins with acute 
or obtuse often- acuminate teeth, the apex gradually contracted into 
an acumen 2 to 3 cm long: upper surface flat or somewhat rugose, ap- 
t pressed-puboscent, scabrous, under surface and petioles densely villose- 
tomentose; stipules lanceolate or narrowly oblong-lanceolate, slenderly 
long-acuminate, up to 7 mm in length or on the branchlets shorter,, 
scarious on the margins, pilose along the middle. 
Bata^-es Islands, Batan Island, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 375^ 
FMx (type), Bur. Sci. 3227 Mearrts; Sabtan Island, Bur. Sci. 10176 McGregor. 
Allied to k sidaefolia Wedd., but easily recognized by its woody stem, pubes- 
cence, the stouter petioles, and the thicker leaves, having moreover a much longer 
pistillate perianth and wider stiimles. 
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