PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 485 
cent, recurving: achenes compressed, nearly circular in outline, over 2.5 
mm in diameter. 
A widely spreading tree, its branchlets covered with yellowish bark: 
leaves on petioles 3 to 8 cm long, the younger pilose, the older glabrous 
or nearly so; lamina somewhat rigidly chartaceous, oval-ovate to oval- 
obovate, 16 to over 20 em long, 6.5 to 13 em wide, the base broadly 
rounded, very close to the petiole becoming acute, the margins when dry 
revolute, the apex contracted into a slender acute acumen, the upper 
surface glabrous or when young with a few scattered hairs, the under 
brown-lepidote and shortly white-pilose ; 5-plinerved, the upper pair of 
nerves extending one-third the length of the lamina or more, additional 
pairs of veins 20 to 12. 
Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7351. 
13. Laportea subpeltata sp. nov. 
Inflorescentiis pistilliferis admodum _longis, ramosis, stimuliferis, 
floribus sessilibus in receptaculis flabellatim dispositis: foliis rigide 
chartaceis, ovalibus, basi rotundatis, subpeltatis, margine undulatis, apice 
previssime acuminatis; 5- vel Y-plinerviis; stipulis ovatis, extus dense 
pubescentibus. 
Pistillate inflorescences nearly 20 em long, the branches attaining 6 
cm, the rachises especially toward the apex armed with stinging hairs; 
receptacles about 4 mm in diameter, on pedicels 2 to 7 mm long, bearing 
rather numerous flabellately arranged sessile flowers: perianth-segments 
4, lanceolate, pubescent, about 0.6 mm long; ovary compressed, oval in 
outline, about 0.6 mm long; stigma pubescent, attaining nearly 2 mm in 
length, recurving : achenes hardly mature. 
A tree 10.5 m high, with a trunk 15 cm in diameter, the glabrous bark 
of the ultimate branchlets very dark-red when dry: leaves on puberulent 
petioles 3.5 to 7 em long, the lamina rigidly chartaceous, oval, 11 to 18 
em long, 6.5 to 12 em wide, the base broadly rounded, very shallowly 
cordate, subpeltate, the margins undulate, when dry slightly revolute, the 
apex abruptly contracted into a small acumen 2 to 8 mm long; upper 
surface dark-green, under light-green when fresh, both drying brown, 
when young densely pilose on the veins and somewhat between them, when 
mature glabrous except for a few hairs on the principal veins; 5- or 
7-plinerved, the uppermost pair of nerves extending from one-fourth to 
one-third the length of the lamina, additional pairs of veins 9 to 12; 
stipules ovate, very shortly acuminate, densely pubescent on the outer 
surface except the margins, nearly 1 cm long. 
MINDANAO, Province of Misamis, Bliss River, at 1050 m elevation on low land 
near river, For. Bur. 4586 Mearns & Hutchinson. Of our species, this is probably 
closest to L. densiflora, but in the latter the leaves are larger, more deeply cordate 
at the base, the under surface especially on the mid-vein and the inflorescence is 
more pubescent while the stipules are glabrous. 
Local name (Moro) : sagt. 
