312 Rusby: An Enumeration of the Plants 



stems i 



very 



subsimple : stipules 2 or 3 mm. long, broadly ovate, blunt, sca- 

 rious, brownish : pedicels 2-7 mm., slender : blades 1-2 cm. long, 

 .5-1 cm. broad, ovate, blunt or rounded at the base, obtuse, deeply 

 crenate-dentate or lobed, the teeth or lobes 3-5 pairs, thin, deep 

 green: peduncles .5-1 cm. long, filiform: head about 3 mm. 



broad, densely few-flowered, the flowers purplish. 

 Unduavi, 8000 ft., Oct. 1885 (no. 1484). 



Pilea urerifolia sp. nov. 



Upper leaf-suriaces minutely stellate : stems blackish, stout but 

 weak : stipules 5-7 mm. long, 2 or 3 mm. broad, tapering from the 

 base, brown-scarious petioles 1.5-4 cm. long, weak : blades 1-1.2 

 dm. long, 4— 6 cm. broad, oblong or oval, highly inaequilateral, obtuse 

 at the base, abruptly contracted into a tapering acute summit, cre- 

 nate-dentate, dark green, very thin, strongly 3 -ribbed, the ribs black- 

 ish, the branches from the midrib meeting those from the laterals 

 about one third of the distance from the latter: peduncles 1-3 cm. 

 long, slender, weak, blackish : heads globose, yellow, about 1 cm. in 

 diameter: pedicels 1.5 mm. long, transparent; calyx campanulate, 

 nearly 2 mm. long and broad, deeply 4- lobed, the lobes oval, el- 

 liptical, transparent : filaments thick, as long as the perianth, fleshy : 

 anthers oval, half as long as the filament. Pistillate flowers not 

 seen. 



Unduavi, 8000 ft, Oct. 1885 (no. 1481). Also collected by 

 Mr. Bang at Sacramento, Yungas, Aug. 6, 1894 (no. 2374). Mr. 

 Bang says, "A small plant, a few feet high, with white flowers, 

 abundant in rich forest-mould." 



Wedd 



1854. 



Unduavi, 8000 ft., Oct. 1885 (nos. 1280 and 1281). The same 



as Mathews' no. 2039. 



Boehmeria caudata Sw. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 34. Yungas, 

 6000 ft, 1885 (no. 1277). The same as Mandon's no. 1107. 



BoeJimeria sp. near B. Pavonii Wedd. Ann. Sci. Nat. IV, I : 

 202. 1854. Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 1278). The same as 

 Bang's no. 328. 



Boehmeria tenuistachys sp. nov. 



Ferruginous-pilose, the lower leaf-surfaces somewhat tomen- 

 tose, the upper strigose : branches mostly erect or strongly ascend- 

 ing, 1 dm. or more long, somewhat angled : stipules caducous, 6-8 

 mm. long, lanceolate, tapering regularly from the base to an acute 



