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ROBINSON. 
prolongation of the ovary, shortly- pilose especially, at the apex; ovary 0.7 
mm long, at the apex contracted into a Iiorn-like process 0.4 mm long, 
this continuous -\vitli a very slightly pilose stigma about 1 mm long. 
Plants 20 to 30 cm high, the stems slender, terete, slightly woody at 
tlie base, below slightly apically densely short-pubescent: leaves opposite, 
varying greatly in size but those of a pair similar, petioles densely pubes- 
cent, 1 to 3 cm long, or on reduced leaves still shorter, lamina mem- 
branaceous, oval or oval-obovate, 1.5 to 5 cm long, 8 to 30 mm wide, the 
base subacute to somewhat rounded, the margins except at the extreme 
base sen-ate, the serrations acute or acutely acuminate, the apex abruptly 
or somewhat abruptly contracted into an acnte acumen 2 to 4 mm long, 
upper surface somewhat sparingly pilose, the under more densely pubes- 
cent on the veins, 3-nerved, with 2 or 3 additional slender veins ; stipules 
lanceolate, acuminate, persistent, 3 to 4 mm long, pilose on tlie costa. 
LrzoN, Province of Benguet, Rio Trinidad, on rocks, Bur. Set. 5542 Ramos. 
Allied to B, gracilis Wright, but differing in several characters. 
SPECIES EXCLUDENDAE. 
1. BoEHMERiA ABACirxoiDEA Walp. Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 
I ■ 4^*5* 
Pouzolzia arachnoidea (Walp.) Wedd. 
2. BOEHMEBIA CYUNDEICA Willd. Sp. PI. 4^ (1805) 340. 
This American species is reported by Walpers, 1. c, as collected by Meyen at 
Jalajala on the northern shore of Laguna de Bay. The specimen appears not to 
be in the Berlin herbarium, at leaat under BoehmeHa. 
S.^BOEHMEBIA INTEBEUPTA Willd. 1. C. 342. 
Fleurya interrupta Gaudieh. 
4. BoEHMEEiA MAIABABICA Wedd. in Arch. Mus. Paris 9 (1856) 355. 
Reported by Villar, but not recently collected. 
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11. POUZOLZIA Gaudieh. 
KEY TO THE PHILIPPINE SPECIES OF POUZOLZIA. 
Glomerules borne on an elongate terminal spike i. p, arachnoidea 
Glomerules axillary. 
Leaves serrate or dentate. 
Stipules lanceolate o d ^ \ ^ 
stipules much wider, involucrating glomerules 3. P. rubricaulis 
JLeaves entire . „ , . 
- 4. /*. zeylamca 
1. Pouzolzia arachnoidea Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16^ (1869) 228 
Boehmeria arachnoidea Walp. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 '(1843) Suppl. 
Pouzolzia macrura Wedd. in Arch. IMus. Paris 9 (1856) 396 
Stachyocnide Z«2onica Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1856) 228 pi 55 
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