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obovate or even ovate, the larger ones 25 to 30 cm long", 10 to 16 
cm wide, margins subentire or very obscurely toothed, somewhat 
narrowed above to the rather slenderly acuminate apex, slightly 
narrowed below to the somewhat inequilateral, broadly cordate 
base, the sinus very shallow, the lobes broadly rounded, usually 
with 3 or 4 short basal nerves on each side of the midrib, when 
dry the upper surface brownish-olivaceous, somewhat shining, 
sparingly ciUate-hirsute on the midrib and nerves, minutely 
scabrid, the lower surface brown, ciliate-hirsute on the midrib 
and nerves with scattered, stiff, white hairs, the surface punc- 
ticulate; lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, 
prominent on the lower surface, anastomosing, the primary 
reticulations subparallel, prominent ; petioles more or less hirsute, 
of the larger leaves 4 to 5.5 cm long. Receptacles axillary, 
sessile, broadly obovoid or even depressed-globose (immature) 1 
to 1.5 mm long, sparingly hirsute, the basal bracts 3, broadly 
ovate, 2 to 3 mm long, somewhat pubescent. Flowers very 
numerous, sessile and pedicelled, all female (or some gall flow- 
ers?), the ovaries ovoid to subglobose, inequilateral, 0.5 mm long; 
style usually distinctly terminal, 1 mm long. 
Leyte, Dagami, C. A. Wenzel US, March, 1913, in abaca {Musa textilis) 
plantations, edge of foothills, altitude 60 meters. 
A species with leaves in form peculiarly like those of the common 
Philippine Ficus nota (Blanco) Merr., but otherwise not at all closely 
allied to that species. Its exact alliances are not clear to me, for I know 
no Philippine or extra-Philippine form that it closely resembles. 
URTICACEAE 
BOEHMERIA Jacquin 
BOEHMERIA CYPHOLOPHOIDES sp. nov. 
Species ut videtur B. blumeae et B, heterophyllae affinis, difFert 
foliis omnibus altemis, isomorphis, basi aequilateraliter rotun- 
datis. 
A shrub about 2 m high, somewhat pubescent, the branches 
reddish-brown, terete, slender, striate when dry, glabrous, the 
younger parts rather densely cinereous-pubescent. Leaves all 
alternate, all alike in shape, and for the most part alike in size 
on the same parts of the branches, oblong-ovate to ovate to ovate- 
elliptic, chartaceous, 6 to 13 cm long, 2,5 to 4 cm wide, olivaceous 
when dry, lower surface slightly paler then the upper, the latter 
shining, glabrous, the lower cinereous-pubescent on the midrib 
and nerves and to a less degree on the reticulations, the apex 
slenderly subcaudate-acuminate, the base equilateral, rounded, 
