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PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 5 
and from the variety, with which they therein agree, by the more erect spikes. 
For greater accuracy, a brief description will be appended. To be consistent 
with his idea of the limits of the species, Weddell should have used one of several 
earlier names, tenable both in Urtica and Boehmeria at the time of their publica- 
tion. The species to which all of those antedating 1825 belong have been held 
distinct by later authors, except one from Oceania to which I find no recent 
reference, and there is at present no reason for displacing the accepted name. 
The distribution of the species according to Weddell and Hooker is India, Ceylon, 
China, Japan, Malaya, and tropical Africa. 
Spikes simple, ascending, toward the apex often curved, sometimes outward, 
more rarely inward, 6 to 30 cm long, usually far exceeding the corresponding 
leaves; glomerules 4 to 5 mm in diameter, often confluent or nearly so, very 
numerous. Petioles of a pair of leaves often distinctly unequal, 7 mm to 5 cm 
long; lamina ovate or oblong-ovate, 8 to 14 cm long, 4 to 7 cm wide, base 
varying from cordate to nearly acute, margins serrate except at the base and the 
slenderly acuminate apex. 
Local name: Jipattg aso. 
7. Boehmeria celebica BI. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1856) 217. 
Urtica ceJehica m. Biidr. (1825) 492. 
Boehmeria platyphylla var. celehica Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16^ (1869) 211. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya, at 1,200 m elevation, Elmer 11S06. 
Although this does not exactly agree with the descriptions, the teeth of the 
less oblong leaves being nearly regular, it seems so close that it has been at 
least provisionally identified with Blume's species, especially as the descriptions 
of that author and of Weddell differ somewhat and between them describe the 
Philippine plants, so far as they go, except as stated above. 
Local name: ramirami. 
Java, Celebes. 
8. Boehmeria densiflora Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. (1841) 271. 
B. weddelUana Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 256. \ . 
B, platyphylla var. loochooensis Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16^ (1869) 213, 
Luzon, District of Bontoc, Vidal 1784, Vanovcrhcrgh 269, Bur. Set. 700S Ramos, 
For. Bur. 16515, 16532 Curran d Merriit. 
The reduction was first made by Wrigbt,« and is here followed. Henry SI, 
from Formosa, is an excellent match for the Philippine collections. 
China, Eiu Kiu Islands, Formosa, Hongkong. 
9. Boehmeria rupestris sp. nov. 
Subherbaeea, humilis, ramis pubescentibus : glomerulis pistilliferis 
spicatis, spicis brevibus; perianthio breviter pilosa, apice valde contracto, 
4-dentato; ovario libero apice comuto, stigmate continuo: foliis oppositis, 
paris subsiniilibus ovalibus vel ovali-obovatis, basi subacutis vel rotund- 
atis, margine acute serratis, apice breviter axjuminatis, trinerviis ; stipulis 
lanceolatis, acuminatis. - 
Pistillate glomemles about 4 mm in diameter, few, on spikes Bot ex- 
ceeding 2 cm in length, approximate or confluent; perianth free from the 
ovary, membranaceous, slightly over 1 mm long, obovoid, at the apex 
gi-eatly narrowed with 4 obscure teeth closely surrounding the base of the 
"Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1899) 484. 
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