PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE, II. 30;i 
the cells often unequal, approximate at the base: pistillate receptacles 
unknown. 
Stems erect, 25 to 45 cm high, more often simple, or sparingly branched 
especially at the base, groo\'ed, densely antrorscly grayish-strigose : leaves 
with petioles 5 to 8 mm long, similarly pubescent, lamina wlien dry 
subchartaccous or chartaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate or eiliptic-obovate, 5.5 
to 10.5 cm long, 2 to 4 (usually 2.5 to 3) cm wide, acute at the base on 
both sides or on the wider side obtuse, the margins dentate on both sides 
but not deeply, the teeth of the wider side from about 22 to 30, of the 
narrower 20 to 24, the apex except on reduced leaves definitely contracted 
into an acumen 5 to 15 mm, more often about 10 mm long; upper surface 
glabrous with numerous but inconspicuous cystoliths, under surface ap- 
pressed-strigose on the veins; triplinervcd, the nerves extending fonr-fiftlis 
the length of the lamina or often to the base of the acumen, other veins 
projecting on the under surface, on eac-li side of the costa more often 3 
or 4 but with others of about equal number nearly as pi-omifient, reticula- 
tions lax, conspicuous; stipules lanceolate to ovate, 2 to 2.5 mm long, 
acute, pubescent. 
Luzon, Subprovinee of Benguet, Buguio, on wet ledges in ravine, l^^'*'-']' '^J^ 
(type) ; Mount Tonglon, mossy forest at abont 1,000 m elevation, Phd. PL 810 
mJtUI ravine, on banks of small stream at about 1,800 m elevation ym./I 
you- Among Philippine species, this has Its closest alliance ^vith that here 
identified^ as E. longifoUum Wodd., differing fron. it by the clustered stamma te 
inflorescence, pubescence, leaf-bases and serration. It may also be near E. sessUe 
var. pu^u^iat.m Wedd., but the receptacles in the present ca.e wlulc nnmcrou 
and often very small are^ each complete, whereas in the Indian plant, \Aeaael 
.tates that the fasciculate appearance of the (pistillate receptacles is i lu or^ 
the receptacles being in reality deeply lobed.« In /;. yloo^eratu.. the olen.ents 
•of the receptacle are unusually loosely attached to one another. 
31, E.atostema longifoliu. Wedd. in Ann. 8ci. Xat. IV 1 (1854) ^80; l)r. 
Prodr. 16^ (1809) 184; C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Set. 5 (lOU) Bot. o.U. 
Type, Cuming J,56. .,, „_i^ herbarium, 
Attention has previously been called to the uuniiii^ bpc 
1 all identification, here have been ha.ed on the broad eav.dplat on u 
and 
sheet. 
"T^U;:^ «::;;. n. nan. is inappropriate; the leave, are 
IloiSllleolate. those on our -et are . te ^T - .n. ; the ba.e 
not el 
of the leaves can no 
o, tue .eaves can not be called acute; the stipules are not ^'^^^^'\^ 
stannnate flowers are pentamerous "-'-'l "^ ''^f "''-^J^t'^: ^ 'do o 
being little n.chanieal dimeulty in ^-^^-^;^-'^^'^;l;i;A. so 
see Why WeddeU .ould^ not ha^. >u ,^ t a ..et, ^^ ^^^^ ^^^^_^^ ^^^^^^^ 
treated E. uUufolunn iliq., «'";";'' 1 '^ „,,,;,.,, ;, „,„eh further from E. 
to say nothing of E. lron<jn,art>anum ^^ J^-' " ' ^^"^^^ .^i„„ t,,,t this broad- 
. .essUe than is E. uUnifoUum. This has d ; ^^ ^^^l^' ™ ^ ,„„ „„, ,„ 
leaved plant is really ^- .'"-'iJ'-^^.f'-T^^rm <^njecturl for although 
E. 
the 
' See 
*. 
TOs Journal 5 (IDH) Bot. .VU; also below. 
M)C. Prodr. 16^ {im)) 173 
