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484 ROBINSON. 
vatis, 12 ad 17 cm longis, basi valde angustatis, acutis vel brevissime 
. 
cordatulis, margine integris, apice breviter acuminatis; stipulis ovatis, 
extus dense pubescentibus. 
Pistillate inflorescences 7 to at least 24 cm long, their branches ap- 
parently not widely spreading, not seen beyond 5 cm in length, densely 
clothed with stinging-hairs; receptacles on pedicels 1 to 3 mm long, 
bearing 6 to 8 flabellately arranged flowers: perianth-segments 4, subequal 
in length, 0.4 mm long, lanceolate to ovate, their outer surfaces pubescent ; 
ovary about 0.6 mm long; stigma 1.5 to * mm long, pubescent: fruiting 
receptacles about 4 mm in diameter, the achenes strongly compressed, 
nearly circular in outline, 2.5 mm long, the stigma often persistent. 
Probably a small tree, the branches covered with brownish or yellowish 
glabrous bark: leaves with glabrous petioles 4 to 8 em long, the charta- 
ceous lamina oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate, or obovate, 12 to 17 cm 
long, 4 to 8 em wide, gradually contracted to an acute or very shallowly 
cordate base, the margins entire or obscurely sinuate, the apex rather 
gradually contracted’ into an acumen less than 1 em long; glabrous on 
both surfaces or the under obscurely puberulent, the venation of the 
under often well marked by conspicuous white cystoliths ; pinnately veined, 
veins 10 to 12 pairs; stipules ovate, densely pubescent on the outer 
surface, about 8 mm long. 
MINDANAO, District of Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 462 (type), s. n. 
1l. Laportea mindanaensis Warb. in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1905) 168. 
Luzon, Loher 5009. Minvanao, District of Davao, Taumo, Warburg 14702 
(carbon impression) ; Davao, Copeland 608, 609, DeVore & Hoover 182; Santa 
Cruz, Williams 2810, the last of somewhat different appearance, though I find no 
adequate characters upon which to separate it. The leaf-bases vary upon the 
same plant. 
12. Laportea leytensis sp. nov. 
Inflorescentiis pistilliferis admodum _longis, ramosis, stimuliferis, 
floribus sessilibus in receptaculis flabellatim dispositis; bracteis ovatis 
costam versus pubescentibus: foliis subrigide coriaceis, ovali-ovatis vel 
ovali-obovatis, basi rotundatis, margine siccitate revolutis, apice breviter 
acute acuminatis. 
Pistillate inflorescences attaining a length of at least 20 cm, subtended 
at the base by ovate, acute bracts 12 to 15 mm long, densely pubescent on 
the midvein and sparingly near it; bracteoles at the nodes of the in- 
florescence subpersistent, lanceolate, the lowest about 7 mm long, decreas- 
ing toward the apex; the rachis and its branches, especially toward their 
apices armed with stinging hairs: receptacles about 2.5 mm in diameter, 
on pedicels 3 to 5 mm long, bearing about 10 flabellately arranged, sessile 
flowers: perianth-segments 4, subequal, lanceolate, 0.5 mm long, ciliate ; 
ovary compressed-ovoid, 0.7 mm long; stigma about 1.5 mm long, pubes- 
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