DECEMBER 15, 1910] URTICACEAE FROM THE VICINITY OF Mr. Apo 893 
Colleeted in fertile soil of dense woods or forests in 
the oak flat at 4000 feet. This also the Bagobos call ‘‘Rami- 
rami.’’ 
There is some doubt as to the correctness in considering 
ours identical with the Celebese plant. 
CHAMABAINIA Wight 
Chamabainia cuspidata Wight 
Field-note:—A creeping and slenderly branched biennial; 
stems filiform not numerously branched, smooth, terete, red- 
dish; leaves membranous, richly green above, much paler 
green beneath, flat, horizontally disposed or arranged; in- 
florescence in dense axillary clusters, greenish white. Upon 
wet moss covered bowlders and subpendulous from cliffs along 
the Cati creek at 5750 feet of mount Apo. ‘‘Palauway’’ is 
the native or Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 11541, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, August, 1909. 
GONOSTEGIA Turcz. 
Gonostegia hirta (Blm.) Miq. 
Field-note:—Herbs reclining among grassy thickets of 
open rich flats at 3000 feet. ''Sacati" is the vernacular 
Bagobo name. 
Represented by number 11958, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, October, 1909. 
Gonostegia pentandra (Roxb.) Miq. 
This was mixed with number 11020 collected in warm 
compact soil of the cogon grass region at 1000 feet. "'Cayut- 
coran" is the name given to it by the natives or Bagobos. 
Represented by number 11020,* Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo) 
Mindanao, June, 1909. 
