DECEMBER 15, 1910) URTICACEAE FROM THE VICINITY OF Mr. Apo 879 
5 to 8 cm. long, paniculately branched from below the 
middle; peduncle solitary or few from the same axil; branch- 
lets divaricately spreading, glabrous; flowers in small sessile 
glomerules at the point of branching, subtended by short 
reddish brown persistent bracts, bracts less than 1 mm. 
long, very finely ciliate along the margins; perianth with- 
out hairs, but similar in color to the bracts, 2.5 mm. long, 
united toward the base, the segments triangularly acute, 
sessile, in the bud state subglobose; stamens as many, 
opposite the segments; filaments free, glabrous, flattened ex- 
cept toward the apex; anther broadly elliptic, 1 mm. long, 
fully as wide, emarginate at both ends, attached to the 
middle portion; pistillode clavate, erect, 1.5 mm. long; 
pistillate flowers and fruits not seen. 
Type specimen 11948, A. D. E. Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
District of Davao, Mindanao, October, 1909. 
Quite a slender tree on the wooded summit of mount 
Burebid at 4000 feet. The Bagobos call it ''Sigmit" which 
is also the name given to the preceding new species. 
These male specimens are quite different from all other 
Philippine species by the character of the leaves. 
PILEA Lindl. 
Pilea sylvatica Elm. n. sp. 
Subsucculent herb; stem 1 to 2 m. high, sparingly 
rebranched; the branches strictly ascending, all more or less 
swollen between the nodes, subterete, dark green and streak- 
ed with purplish brown. Leaves slightly ascending, the 
acuminate tips recurved, shining on both sides, drying dull 
green, deeper green above, with cystoliths on both sides, 
soft membranous, delicately thin in the dry state, the aver- 
age blades 12 cm. long, 5.5 cm. wide below the middle, 
ovately oblong, the rounded base subentire, otherwise cren- 
ately toothed clear to the apex, the larger teeth with a small 
one on the lower side, glabrous; veins 3 from the base, the 
lateral pair extending two thirds the length of the blade; 
the secondary lateral ones 9 to 11 on each side of the midvein, 
nearly at right angles, reticulations coarse and faint; petioles 
3 to 7 cm. long, slender, glabrous; stipule membranous 
