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PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 541° 
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toliths; triplinerved, with 2 or 3 additional veins; stipules lanceolate. 
acute, pubescent, about 1.5 mm long, deciduous. 
Mrnporo, Mount Halcon, in ridge-forest at 750 m, Merrill 5786. 
40. Elatostema sublignosum sp. nov. 
E. halconensi affine, sed differt foliis longioribus, magis dentatis, caule 
ramisque densius pubescentibus. 
Pistillate receptacles sessile, 2 to 3 mm in diameter: outer pair of 
bracts ovate, 1.5 mm long, obliquely short-corniculate, ciliate, pilose ; 
other bracts narrowly oblong, otherwise similar; bracteoles linear-oblan- 
ceolate, 1.5 mm long, long-pilose; flowers shortly pedicellate; perianth 
about 0.1 mm long, 3-lobed; ovary elliptic, compressed, about 0.4 mm 
long; stigma penicillate-villose. 
Erect, woody, especially as seen in dried material, 40 to 70 cm high, 
- widely branching, the branches and the upper part of the stem densely 
covered with dirty-yellowish somewhat spreading pubescence: leaves ses- 
sile or subsessile, the lamina membranaceous, obliquely oblanceolate to 
elliptic, 1.5 to 13.5 em long, 5 to 32 mm wide, the base of the narrower 
side acute or more often subobtuse, that of the wider rounded or very 
shortly auriculate, teeth of the wider side 3 to 6, of the narrower 2 to 5, 
most often 3, the acumen lanceolate, 7 to 35 mm long, acute or subacute ; 
upper surface glabrous with very numerous cystoliths, the under fulvous- 
pilose; triplinerved, with 3 or 4 additional veins; stipules lanceolate, 2 
to 4 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Mount Banajao, Bur. Sci. 9754 (type), 9859 Robin- 
son; Mabalucbalue, Bur. Sci. 6014 Robinson: growing at elevations from 600 to 
800 m. A Formosan specimen, no. 1260, is nearly identical. 
41. Elatostema baruringense Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 3 (1910) 890. 
Receptaculis staminiferis saepe fasciculatis, sessilibus; bracteis ex- 
-terioribus basin versus liberis, late ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis, 2 mm longis, 
haud corniculatis, pilosis, ciliatis; interioribus similibus, densius ciliatis ; 
bracteolis lineari-oblanceolatis longe pilosis; perianthio 4-partito: foliis 
rigidiuscule membranaceis, oblique ellipticis vel oblanceolatis, 8 ad 13 
em longis, 24 ad 42 mm latis, pagina superiore costa excepta glabra, 
marginibus lateris latioris 9- ad 14-dentatis, apice acuminatis; tripliner- 
viis, venis saepissime 5 vel 6 additis; aliter sicut in specie praecedente. 
MINDANAO, District of Davao, Baruring River, in dense forests at 1,200 m, 
Elmer 10916. \ 
This and the two preceding species are very closely allied, possibly having 
their nearest alliance among previously described species in H#. iniegrifolium 
Wedd., from which the stipules and still more the details of structure of the 
staminate flowers keep them quite distinct. When compared with one another, 
it is equally obvious that they are very similar and yet not identical, but with 
the differences of such a nature that additional collections may serve to unite 
