DzcEMBER 15, 1910] URTICACEAE FROM THE Vicinity OF Mr. Apo 877 
acute tips recurved, alternatingly scattered toward the ends 
of the smooth branchlets, oblong or subelliptic, the average 
blades 16 cm. long, 6 em. wide across the middle, base 
abruptly obtuse or rounded, apparently glabrous, the entire 
margins slightly involute in the dry state, turning greenish 
brown while curing, thinly coriaceous, much deeper green 
on the upper side; midvein conspicuous beneath, with 5 
to 7 arcuate lateral pairs whose tips are more or less 
united, all glabrous and dark brown beneath, the cross 
bars and reticulations quite faint; petiole 3 to 5 cm. long, 
glabrous; bud bracts 1 cm. long or less, brown, glabrous 
or only slightly strigulose along the margins, gradually taper- 
ing to an acute point. Flowers not seen; infrutescence 
solitary from the leaf axils, pendulous, purplish, provided 
with whitish stinging hairs, 2 to 3 dm. long, branched, 
from below the middle; branches not numerous, dichoto- 
mously rebranched; pedicels as long as 1 cm. but frequent- 
ly much shorter or even subsessile, flattened, subtended by 
few brown linear segments with blunt points and scarcely 
exceeding 1 mm. in length, at the distal end flattened 
out into a receptacle; receptacles fleshy, blue, with a few 
spicules, 4 mm. sacross, apiculately fringed along the upper 
margin; seeds several, set side by side along the upper 
side of the receptacle, smooth, green, lenticular, 2 mm. 
wide from the side view, sessilely attached to the upper 
basal edge, the lower outer edge bearing an ascendingly 
curved brown slightly puberulent 2.5 mm. long style. 
Type specimen 10499, A4. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Distriet of Davao, Mindanao, May, 1909. 
A graceful tree-like undershrub in fertile humus cover- 
ed soil of a densely forested oak flat at 4000 feet. It was 
repeatedly noticed both along the trail from Todaya to Talon 
and Baclayan. Very pretty when in full fruit! It is known to 
all Bagobos as ''Sigmit.' The natives unmistakably know 
this even as a young plant with its first leaves. When they 
travel off trail through the woods or forests they instinctive- 
ly detect its foliage as if it were a venemous reptile. In 
this same region the forests are full of fine rather low 
climbing or sprawling rattans whose spiny leaf rachises 
dangle everywhere—but these the Bagobos do not mind at 
