PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 527 
margine acute serratis, apice acuminatis; stipulis elliptico-lanceolatis, 
circiter 17 mm longis. 
Staminate receptacles sessile; outer bracts suborbicular, 5 mm long, 
one or both distinetly short-corniculate, silky-pubescent; inner bracts 
oblong, 3.5 mm long, less densely pubescent ; bracteoles narrowly oblong- 
oblanceolate, 3 mm long, pilose at the apex; pedicels about 1 mm long: 
perianth-segments 4, elliptic or broadly elliptic, nearly 2 mm long, more 
or less cucullate, pilose at the apex: anthers 0.8 mm long: pistillate 
receptacles sessile; outer pair of bracts free for over half their length, 
the free portions orbicular-ovate, 2.5 mm long, shortly corniculate, long- 
pilose and ciliate; other bracts oblong-lanceolate, 4 mm long, scarious- 
margined, strongly keeled but hardly corniculate, densely pubescent ; 
bracteoles narrowly linear-oblanceolate, 3 mm long, long-ciliate espe- 
cially at the apex; pedicels over 1 mm long; perianth distinctly either 
3- or 4-lobed, minute: achene brown, broadly ellipsoid, obscurely striate, 
about 1 mm long. 
Stems 30 to 40 cm high, erect except at base, the apices densely 
pubescent, below glabrous: leaves subsessile, the lamina densely charta- 
ceous, oblanceolate to obovate, 6 to 10 em, long, 20 to 32 mm wide, the 
base acute or subobtuse on the narrower side, on the wider obtuse, 
rounded, or very shortly auriculate, the margins except at or near the 
base cut not deeply by acute teeth, strongly directed forward, on the 
wider side about 20 in number, the apex gradually or somewhat abruptly 
contracted into an acumen about 1.5 em long, the upper surface scabrous, 
the under silky-pilose; triplinerved, with 4 or 5 additional veins, nearly 
free from one another; stipules elliptic-lanceolate, very shortly acu- 
minate, appressed-pilose on the outer surface, about 17 mm long. 
PALAWAN, Mount Victoria, at 1100 m elevation, Bur. Sci. 677 Foaworthy. 
Much more distinct from its nearest ally, #. lagunense, than it can be made to 
seem by key, the plants less coarse, the receptacles so far as can be judged 
from the present collection much smaller and differing in various details, ap- 
parently always sessile, and with the under surface of the leaves silky. 
22. Elatostema lagunense Merrill in herb, sp. nov. 
Monoicum vel saepius dioicum, erectum, succulentum: receptaculis 
staminiferis magnis, breviter pedunculatis; bracteis exterioribus depresso- 
orbicularibus, corniculatis; floribus tetrameris: receptaculis pistilliferis 
sessilibus, bracteis basi excepta connatis; floribus pedicellatis, perianthio 
minuto, trilobato: foliis oblique oblanceolatis vel obovatis, basis valde 
inaequilaterae uno latere acutis altero obtusis vel subauriculatis, margine 
basi excepta serratis, apice acuminatis, utraque pagina saepius strigosis, 
triplinerviis. 
Monoecious or dioecious: staminate receptacles attaining a diameter 
of 2 em, on short stout peduncles; outer bracts depressed-orbicular, nearly 
free, up-to 9 mm in length and 13 mm in width, keeled, corniculate, 
