310 ROBINSON. 
Bear the apex; pedicels about 1 mm long, articulated at tlie base of the 
flowers, villosc at their apices; perianth-segments 4, oval, snbcucullate, 
1 mm long, the apical wing projecting about 0.6 mm, canescent-villose 
except at the base; filaments about 1 mm long; anthers ovate, 0.6 mm 
long; rudimentary ovary oblong, rounded at the apex, 0.5 mm long, 
minutely pilose: pistillate glomerules about the same size as the stam- 
inate ; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 2 nnn long, pubescent on the apical' two- 
thirds of the costa and ciliate on the margins; perianth eompressed- 
oblanceolate, 2 mm long, contracted at the apex and obscurely 4-toothed, 
substrigose on the outer surface; ovary ellipsoid, 1 mm long, pubescent 
toward the apex; stigma continuous, about 1.5 mm long, not far exserted 
from the perianth, pubescent along one side. 
Shrubs, the branches and branchlets tei'ctc, canescont-pilose : leaves 
alternate or very rarely opposite, alternately unequal in length of petiole, 
lengtli and usually shape of lamina, the smaller on petioles 2 to 3.5 
mm long, the lamina chartaceous or subcoriaceous, ovate, 3 to 3.5 cm 
long, 18 to 20 mm wide, very shortly and obtusely acuminate, tlie 
larger on petioles 8 to more often about 20 mm long, the lamina 
elliptic to lanceolate, 8 to 10 cm long, 3 to 4 cm wide, the apex con- 
tracted into a slender acute acumen 1 to 1.5 cm long, both series of 
leaves varying from subacute to truncate at the base, slightly inequilat- 
eral, the margins dentate except at the extreme base, the teeth shallow, 
subequal, obliquely ovate, about 35 on each side of the larger leaves, the 
apices usually blunt, callus-tipped or shortly mueronate; trinerved or 
with a short and much less conspicuous nerve below the main nerve of 
one or both sides, the nerves extending about three- fourths the length 
of the lamina, other veins 3 or 4 on either side or rarely slightly more, the 
articulations numerous, immersed on the upper surface, projecting on the 
lower, both surfaces thereby divided into sections about 1 to 1.5 mm 
wide; upper surface softly or substrigosely pubescent, the hairs sub- 
stellately arranged in each section, under surface canescent-villose along 
all the larger veins; stipules lanceolate, scarious, 7 to 11 mm long, long- 
acimiinate, canescent-villose on and near the costa. 
Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Bila, Ihn-. Sci. JSo^O //. O. Beyer: Subprovince 
of Benguet, Mount Touglon, in niosr^y forest at 1,900 ni elevation, Merrill ^630. 
The former contains no staminate fl'owera, the latter no pistillate; the descrip- 
tion, except for the staminate glomerules, lui- been taken entirely from the type. 
In the one case where opposite leaves were fuuml, the petioles are about 2 and 
3 cm long, respectively, and the lamina of the larger type. In addition to the 
leaves described, short branchlets often bear smaller loaves, similar otherwise to 
those of the stem, but with corresponding diminution in the length of tlu; 
petioles. The species is intermediate in appearance between B. hhinici WetM- 
and II. villosa C. B. Rob., differing from the former by the absence of reduced 
leaves on the stems, from the latter by its alternate leaves, more slender petioles, 
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more conspicuous sewmdary venation, smaller leaf-teeth, and pubescence. 
