LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. H. Manila, P. I., August 8, 1910. Art. 39 ^ 
A DECADE OF NEW PLANTS 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER 
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URTICACEZE 
Leucosyke magallanensis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrub; stem 5 m. high, 15 cm. thick, branched from 
below the middle; branchlets many, slender, hispidly pub- 
escent, usually drooping, tips suberect; wood moderately hard 
and heavy, reddish except the white sapwood, without odor 
or taste; bark smooth, mottled. Leaves horizontal, charta- 
ceous, a trifle recurved, the upper deeper green surface glab- 
rous, sprinkled with whitish hairs, beneath whitish and brist- 
ly pubescent on the nerves, alternate, mostly at the ends 
of the branchlets, the average blades 1 dm. long, one half 
as wide across the middle, acute at apex, obtuse or sub- 
rounded at base, entire toward the base, finely serrate other- 
wise; nerves 5 from the base, subparellel, the middle one 
with 3 ascending pairs arising from above the middle, cross 
bars relatively conspicuous, all yellowish brown and provided 
with bristly white hairs; petiole 1 cm. long, white hairy; 
stipules brown, deciduous, 1.5 cm. long, the back finely 
