878 LEAFLETS OF PRILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 50 
all when the ‘‘Sigmit’’ is to be reckoned with at the same 
time. I have several times been stung by it, twice very 
hard, and I ean testify of it being by far the most excru- 
ciating stinger so far encountered in these islands. Some 
few years ago I was severely siung by a Laportea on mount 
Banahao, but which proved mild in comparison. The sting 
first caused a slight swelling or at least a reddening of the 
skin on the back of my hand and which looked rather 
bright and felt oily. Within an hour or two the pain 
was at its worst and distinctly ran in streaks. It then 
gave way to cessations of almost painless moments until 
after several hours or a day or two I was almost unconscious 
of the pain unless my hand was touched in the affected 
region which quickly aroused the pain for short periods 
only. After few to several days the sting had to be pricked 
in orderd to stir up any remembrance of it. A week or 
ten days later the stinging sensation had entirely disappeared. 
The natives have no remedy except to spit on the affected 
portion or place a putty of wet earth over it, which simply 
soothes the patient but does not draw out tbe pain. 
Its leaves and slender infrutescence are quite different 
than in L. mindanaense Warb. 
Laportea venosa Elm. n. sp. 
Tree 7 m. high, 2 dm. thick; branches rather slender, 
the ultimate ones suberect, glabrous, grayish in the dry 
state, roughened with old leaf scars and more or less 
angularly ridged longitudinally, 0.75 of a dm. thick. Leaves 
alternate, few to several crowded toward the ends of the 
branchlets, glabrous, oblong, turning brownish while drying, 
the normal blades 2 dm. long, 7.5 em. wide across the 
middle, entire margins involute in the dry state at least, 
gradually tapering to the acute or acuminate point, sub- 
coriaceous, base rounded or abruptly obtuse; petiole 2 to 
4 cm. long, stout, glabrous; midvein prominent from both 
sides, with about 8 arcuate lateral pairs, all glabrous and 
olivaceous brown in the dry state, the reticulations relatively 
conspicuous; bud bract 5 mm. long, quite rigid, subgla- 
brous, triangularly oblong. Inflorescence staminate, from the 
leaf axils or from their scars beneath the foliage, about 
