PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 505 
7. Elatostematoides falcatum (Tallier f.) comb. nov. 
Elatostema (Pellionia) faleatum Tallier f. 1. c. 305. 
Pellionia falcata Boerl. 1. ¢. 
8. Elatostematoides machaerophyllum (lIlallier f.) comb, nov. 
Elatostema (Pellionia) machaerophyllum Uallier f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6 
(1898) 355.! 
Pellionia machaerophylla Boerl. 1. ce. 
9, Elatostema polioneurum Hallier f. ex Koord. in Meded.’s Lands, Plant. 19 
(1898) 595; Boerl. Handl. Kenn, Fl. Ned Ind, 3! (1900) 375, nomen nudum. 
No new combination is here proposed, both because the species does not seem 
to have been described, and because of its close alliance to H. manillense, under 
which it is briefly discussed. The statements, here are not based on Hallier’s 
type, but on a collection by Teysmann, from Amboina, which the Director of 
Agriculture, Buitenzorg, has kindly permitted me to inspect. 
8. PROCRIS Commers, ex Juss. 
KEY TO THE PHILIPPINE SPECIES OF PROCRIS. 
Leaf-venation very obscure, except the conspicuous costa. 
Receptacles about 5 mm in diameter; leaves rarely as much as 2 cm wide. 
1. P. philippinensis 
Receptacles 7 to 15 mm diameter; leaves wider ; . 2. P. lagunensis 
Leaves conspicuously 6- to 11-veined. 
Stems woody at base; leaves 10 to over 20 cm long, their margins entire or 
merely undulate; pistillate receptacles sessile..............-.. 3. P. pseudostrigosa 
Stems succulent; leaves usually shorter, their margins distinctly crenate. 
4, P. crenata 
1. Procris philippinensis sp, nov. 
Procris laevigata Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 49, non Bi. 
Bijdr. (1825) 508. 
Glomerulis staminiferis pedunculatis; capitulis pistilliferis sessilibus, 
solitariis: foliis oblique lanceolatis vel anguste oblongo-lanceolatis, basi 
acutis vel uno latere obtusis, venis utrinque costa excepta inconspicuis. 
Staminate inflorescences 6 to 30 mm long, the slender peduncles up to 
2 cm long, sparingly branched, few-flowered, the flowers very shortly 
pedicelled; perianth-segments 5, oblong to ovate, 2.5 mm long, obtuse; 
filaments equally long, inflexed, anthers 1 mm long, cordate: pistillate 
inflorescences sessile, solitary, when dry about 5 mm in diameter, the 
flowers very numerous, sessile, bracted; perianth 3-parted to the very 
base, the sepals obovate, contracted below into a claw, obtuse, very 
shortly acuminate, nearly as long as the achene; achene obovoid, 1.2 
mm long, tuberculate ; stigma short, subterminal. 
Erect or scandent on trees, glabrous, stems succulent, 30 to 80 mm 
long, the internodes in the leaf-bearing part about 1 cm long, often 
distinctly zigzag: larger leaves with petioles 2 to 8 mm long, the lamina 
succulent but drying membranaceous or chartaceous, 4 to 9 cm long, 6 
to 22 mm wide, obliquely narrowly lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or 
