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the usually acute base and to the sharply acuminate apex, entire, 

 the base somewhat 3- or obscurely 5-plinerved ; lateral nerves 

 about 15 on each side of the midrib, rather prominent, somewhat 

 curved; petioles 3 to 6.5 cm long. Pistillate inflorescences axil- 

 lary, with few short, stinging hairs, up to 5 cm in length, the 

 branches few. Flowers flabellately disposed on the ultimate 

 branchlets, the ultimate branchlets usually dichotomous, short, 

 the achenes deflexed, ovoid, compressed, about 3 mm long and 

 2 mm wide, the styles reflexed, very slender, about 2 mm long. 



Samar, Cauayan Valley, Bur. Sci. 17559 Ramos, March, 1914, on forested 

 slopes, the flowers blue and white. 



A species well characterized by its long-petioled leaves which are uni- 

 formly brown when dry, and which are quite glabrous, with no vestiges of 

 stinging hairs ; the only part of the dried plant that presents stinging hairs 

 is the inflorescence. The alliance of the species is manifestly with Laportea 

 luzonensis Warb., on account of its flabellately arranged pistillate flowers, 

 although in all details it is entirely different from Warburg's species. 



LAPORTEA MONTICOLA sp. nov. 



Frutex vel arbor parva, glabra vel subglabra; foliis oblongis 

 ad oblongo-lanceolatis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, integris, te- 

 nuiter caudato-acuminatis, usque ad 10 cm longis; infructes- 

 centiis axillaribus, 6 ad 8 cm longis, fructibus circiter 4 mm 

 diametro haud flabellatis. 



A shrub or small tree, glabrous, or with very few persistent 

 hairs when dry, the branches slender, grayish, wrinkled, the 

 internodes short, especially on the ultimate branchlets where 

 they are usually less than 5 mm long. Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, dark olivaceous when dry, slightly shining, thickly 

 chartaceous to subcoriaceous, entire, 7 to 10 cm long, 2 to 3.5 cm 

 wide, base obtuse to rounded, 3-nerved, apex very slenderly cau- 

 date-acuminate, the acumen up to 2 cm in length, sharp, the upper 

 surface rather densely white-puncticulate ; lateral nerves about 

 6 on each side of the midrib, rather distinct, curved, anasto- 

 mosing, the reticulations lax; petioles 1.5 to 2.4 cm long. In- 

 fructescences 6 to 8 cm long, axillary, the branches few, spread- 

 ing, 2.5 cm long or less. Fruits white, fleshy, about 4 mm in 

 diameter, the receptacle enlarged in fruit, the achenes inequi- 

 lateral, compressed, about 2.5 mm long and 2 mm wide, but one 

 or two on each ultimate branchlet. 



Luzon, Subprovince of Ifugao, Mount Polls, Bur. Sci. 19765 McGregor, 

 February 1, 1913, altitude not indicated, but apparently from the mossy 

 forest. 



A species somewhat resembling a small-leaved form of Laportea luzonensis 

 Warb., but its fruits not flabellate. It is readily distinguished by its small 

 leaves which are slenderly and prominently caudate-acuminate. 



