PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 489 
long, lanceolate to ovate, with a pracess arising from the dorsal surface 
near the apex ; stamens 4, 1mm long, filaments free, very short ; rudiment 
of ovary small: pistillate flowers with 3 sepals, the dorsal 0.7 to 1 mm 
long, oblanceolate, acuminate, the laterals about half this length, lanceo- 
late; staminodes about the same length as the sepals but somewhat 
narrower, caducous; ovary elliptic, becoming ovoid in fruit, verruculose, 
with the very short, penicillate stigmas about 1 mm long. - 
Suffrutescent, more or less branching, 40 to 80 em high, glabrous: 
leaves opposite, petioles 4 to 15 mm long, those of a pair nearly equal or 
more often distinctly unequal; lamina of leaves of a pair subequal, lan- , 
ceolate, 3.5 to 9 cm long, 1 to 2.2 cm wide, triplinerved, inequilateral, the 
base rounded, truncate, or sometimes acute on one side, the margins 
dentate-serrate, the apices subcaudate, more often falcate, cystoliths 
present on both surfaces ; stipules lanceolate, 1 mm long, deciduous. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer 6304 (type), Williams s. %., For. 
Bur. 4837 Curran; Mount Pulog, For. Bur. 16052 Curran, Merritt, & Zschokke. 
By description, greatly resembling P. bracteosa Wedd., an Indian species 
recently reported from Formosa: through the kindness of W. W. Smith, Esq., 
of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Caleutta, material of the Philippine species has 
been compared with Indian material of P. br’acteosa, and found to differ in its 
shorter-petioled and less ovate leaves, and its less marked serration. 
4. Pilea monticola sp. nov. 
Herba vel suffrutex glaber: inflorescentiis axillaribus, in caulibus vel 
in ramis brevibus foliiferis suffultis, quam petioli saltem maturis longio- 
ribus; florum pistilliferorum perianthio 3-partito, segmentis conspicue 
inaequalibus vel subaequalibus: foliis chartaceis vel firmiter membran- 
aceis, ellipticis vel ovalibus, quam in specie sequente minoribus et brevius 
petiolatis, basi attenuata acutis vel obtusis. 
Inflorescences borne in the axils of leaves on the stems or on short 
leafy branches, attaining 9 em in length but often much shorter especially 
in the apical axils, usually and when mature probably always exceeding 
the petioles in length, the peduncles alone of the staminate and at least 
sometimes of the pistillate inflorescence exceeding the petiole: perianth- 
segments of staminate flowers 4, oval to oblong-ovate, about 1.2 mm long, 
apiculate, the filaments and white anthers each about 1 mm long; rudi- 
ment of ovary minute: perianth-segments of pistillate flowers 3, the 
intermediate about 0.8 mm long, half-inclosing the ovary, the laterals 
half as long or more ; staminodes inconspicuous ; ovary obliquely ellipsoid 
or ovoid, about 0.6 mm long; stigma capitate-penicillate ; achene gibbous, 
nearly smooth, about 1 mm long. 
Described by the collectors as herbs or shrubs; about 30 to 40 cm high, 
entirely glabrous: leaves opposite, the petioles of those of a pair some- 
what unequal, not exceeding 2.5 cm and usually much less, especially on 
the branches; lamina chartaceous or firmly membranaceous, elliptic to 
ae a Mare ss” 6. ur, 
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