Plates 2559 and 2560. 



LAPORTEA LONGIFOLIA, Ilemsl 



Urticaceje. Tribe Urtice/E. 



L. longifolia, IlemsL (sp. nov.) ; subarborescens, foliis angustis 

 longissimis pendulis. 



Arbor parva (?), inermis, primum simplicicaulis, deinde pauciramosa 

 (exemplum in horto kewensi cultum fere 5 ped. altum). Tru?icus basi 

 2\ poll, crassus, foliorum cicatricibus confertis magnis ornatus, apice 

 tantum foliosus. Folia conferta, comam formantia, herbacea, longe 

 petiolata, lineari-lanceolata vel lineari-oblonga, arcuato-pendula, cum 

 petiolo i-3 ped. longa, 1-3 poll, lata, acuta, basi cuneata, plus minusve 

 conduplicata, vakle undulata, interdum obscure irregulariterque lobata, 

 primum glandulis globosis sessilibus perlucidis evanidis atque pilis 

 paucis mmutissimis leviter urentibus praedita, demum glabrescentia 

 atque niticla ; costa crassissima, earnosa, subtus elevata, rubens, venis 

 lateralibus primariis numerosissimis divaricatis prope marginem con- 

 junctis subtus conspicuis rubentibus ; petioli carnosi, fere teretes, 1-6 

 poll, longi, maximus circiter 6 lin. diametro ; stipulse intrapetiolares, 

 eonnatse, complicate, lanceolatse, acute, 3-4 poll. long?e, diu persistentes. 

 Flores masculini cymoso-paniculati, sessiles ; panicuhe puberuhr, axil- 

 lares, geminate, subternato-ramosa?, distinc+e pedunculate, divaricatse, 

 fere horizontales, 3-6 poll, longe. Perm ,\thium puberulum, sepissime 

 tetramerum, segmentis ovalibus concavis. Stamina perianthium exce- 

 dentia, ovario rudimento magno subgloboso carnoso. Flores fern inei 

 ignoti. 



New Guinea : Introduced into cultivation by Messrs. J. Veitch and 

 Sons, by whom the plant, here figured and described, was presented to 



Kew. 



This species is only known to us from the cultivated plant described 

 above. It is sufficiently characterised by the long, narrow leaves with 

 very numerous and conspicuous lateral veins. — W. Lotting Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, portion of the under side of a leaf, showing superficial glands and hairs ; 

 2, a partially expanded male flower ; 3, the same fully expanded ; 4, anthers. All 



enlarged. 



