DECEMBER 15, 1910] URTICACEAE FROM THE VICINITY oF Mr. Apo 
Collected in warm, compact and well drained soil of grass 
lands at 1000 feet. This plant the Bagobos call ''Cayut-coran.?? 
Apparently one of the numerous forms covered by Hook- 
er's description of P. indica (Linn.) Gaud. 
CYPHOLOPHUS Wedd. 
Cypholophus moluccanus (Blm.) Miq. 
Field-note:—Shrub, 3 to 5 m. high; stem round, 6 to 9 
em. thick; twigs slender, recurved and ascending, grayish green, 
obscurely angular; wood soft, watery, dirty white, with a large 
green pith, greenish gray, minutely lenticelled, easily stripping 
longitudinally, green beneath the epidermis; leaves horizontally 
spreading, flat, chartaceous, deep green above, glaucous or 
whitish so beneath; the dense sessile inflorescence green with 
the stigmas appearing somewhat whitish, the interaxillary bracts 
green. In rich soil of light woods mixed with cogon grass 
at 3000 feet. The native or Bagobo name is ''Salabugan."' 
Represented by number 10865, Elmer, Todaya (Mt. Apo), 
Mindanao, June, 1909. 
Cypholophus microphyllus Elm. n. sp. 
A low, sprawling and _ suffrutescent shrub; stem 1 m. 
long or high, terete, freely branched above the middle, green- 
ish brown, solitary or few from the same root cluster; branches 
freely rebranched, spreading, tough, the ultimate ones sub- 
erect and dirty brown pubescent. Leaves quite rigid with 
serrate denticulate margins except toward the base, ascend- 
ing or horizontal, easily breaking, deep green and sublucid 
on the upper finely papillate glabrous side, much paler green 
beneath and also glabrous except the veins, drying brown 
especially the lower side, rugose, unequal in size and shape, 
the larger blades 8 cm. long by 2 cm. wide above the middle 
and obovate, the smaller ones articulate and 1 cm. across, 
the apex broadly rounded or with short abruptly pointed 
apices, base rounded and obtuse in the smaller ones, sub- 
cuneate in the larger leaves, copious, opposite, evenly scat» 
tered along the branchlets; midvein quite prominent beneath 
and strigose with a basal much ascending lateral pair and 1 or 
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