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Laportea mindanaensis Warb. in IVrk. Vrng. Fl. Vhilip. (llHKl) \i\H. 
Jloiint Kinabahi, at 3,000 feot elovatioii, UariUittd llli. Tliis. n-feircd by 
Stajjf to L. stiiHuhnis [Miq., is not typical of the above species, as the leaf-haw 
are more attenuate tlian is usual in IMiilippine material, and tbe venation is lefut 
arched, but some of onr collections are nearly in a^rccnicnt nn the first of tliese 
characters and tjuite so ou tJie second, while tiiere seem to be no other ditlVrenci*-*. 
Laportea sp. 
]\Iount Kinabahij Kadamaiau, at 4,500 feet elevation. JlarihiiKl ll.Vt. This in 
very close to L. (jrueilipes Elmer, but the leaf-bases are veiy acute, the veins 
more numerous, and the lowest of tliem less prolonjjod. h, firariliprs seems to 
approach closer to L. stimulans than doc^ any other Philippiiu- specie^. Imt seein~ 
to be a much more glabrous plant with smaller leaves less nnniercni.sly vfinod. 
laxer inflorescence, and sliHitlv shorter bracts. 
Laportea sp. 
Mount Kinabalu, Penokok, at 3,000 feet elevation, Hariiand hUil, staminatc. is 
probably the collection cited l)y Stapf as l-l'il, as the locality and description 
entirely agree. This has some resemblance to L. itmn-drdujiiU s ('. V>. Rnh., but 
is not close to it, and is still fnrther removed from any other Pliilippine species. 
Laportea sp. 
Without locality, Garai 001, staminate, is quite distinct from any Philippine 
species, but resembles L. }))})}da}}ae)ifti.s as nnich as any other. 
Laportea sp. 
Matang, at 2,000 feet elevaton, Harilnnd S'f6; Kuching. A third slieet, with- 
out attached data, might well he a duplicate of the first. This is vegetatively 
very siinilar to L. siibdaum C. B. Pvob., but has a very dilTerciit pistillate in- 
florescence. 
PI LEA Lindl. 
Pilea pterocaulls Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II 4 (1804) 127. 
P. crassifoIJa Stapf 1. c. 22S. 
These are represented by the type collections from "Mount Kinabalu. Huvihnd 
1229 and UIO, the latter noted on the sheet as not the number cited by Stapf, 
i.?J.9, and are valuable here for the means afforde^i to compare tliem with two 
Philippine species, P. henyuctamH C. B. Rob. and P. iniumrscens C, B. Rob. /'. 
henguetensis has much resemblance to P. crasalfoUa, but the stems of the former 
are less angled toward the apex and not at all near the base, the petioles are 
shorter, the lamina nuich more inequilateral, triplinened instead of tnnerved, 
these nerves are not at all exserted and paler in color, the nervules connectmg 
the costa with the lateral nerves are even more delicate than m P. rrnss^folm, 
and the leaf-apices are more falcate. Tn spite of all this, the species are closely 
allied. 
1'. h,t,„„cscr„s has more superficial resemblance to /'. ,>lcrorr,„rh. Imt ,s really 
nuKh more widely separated from it than from /'. cra.sifolUu From the former, 
it is distin^n.ished l.v the shorter internodes, the more numerous nd^^es on the 
stem, absence of wind's, longer petioles, and more serrate leaves. Compared w.th 
P. erassifoUa, the internodes are of nearly equal length on the parts «l».re d.rect 
comparison is possible, althougl, shorter toward the base of the Pul.pp.ne plant, 
the petioles of the latter seem stouter but in both cas^s g.ve ev.dence of l.awng 
been succulent, and the difference may have been brought aln.ut m drymg. But 
the thinner (at least when dry) lannna of P. inUnne.er.s is longer, nearly alway. 
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