Vo) - 2 URTICACEAE 75 



LAPORTEA SUBPELTATA C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 

 485. 



Mindanao (Misamis), F. B. 4586 Mearns & Hutchinson. In forests, 

 altitude about 1,000 m. Endemic. Perhaps referable to Laportea min- 

 danaensis Warb. 



Local name: Sagi (Sub.). 



LAPORTEA TRIPLINERVIA Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 10 (1915) Bot. 

 300. 



Luzon (Tayabas, east coast, Sorsogon), B. S. 19462 Ramos, 25532 Yates, 

 Elmer 17300, 17152 (L. conduplicata Elm.). On forested slopes, altitude 

 about 400 m. Endemic. 



Local names: Lipang-lalaki (Tag.): manapli (Tag.). 



LAPORTEA VENOSA Elm. Lean. Philip. Bot. 3 (1910) 878; C. B. Rob. 

 in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 486. 

 Mindanao (Davao), Elmer 11948, altitude about 1,200 m. Endemic. 

 Local name: Sigmit (Bag.). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Laportea decuman A Wedd. ; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 204. 

 Laportea peltata Gaudich.; F.-Vill. 1. c. 



3. FLEURYA Gaudichaud 



FLEURYA INTERRUPTA (Linn.) Gaudich. Bot. Freyc. Voy. (1826) 497; 



Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 u (1858-59) 228; Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 16 * (1869) 



74; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 203; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. 



(1885) 146; C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 476; 



Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 182, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 130. 

 Urtica interrupta Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 985. 

 Boehmeria interrupta, Willd. Sp. PL 4 1 (1805) 342; Walp. in Nov. 



Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1: 423. 

 Urtica elongata Link Enum. Hort. Berol. 2 (1822) 385, non Gmel. 

 Urtica sessiliflora Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 696, non Sw. 

 Urtica capitata Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 483, ed. 3, 3 (1879) 101, 



non Linn. 

 Urtica sessilifolia Wedd. in Arch. Mus. Paris 9 (1856) 105, sphalm. 

 Schychowskya interrupta W. F. Wight in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9, 



(1905) 371. 



In cultivated areas, chiefly in disturbed soil in and about towns through- 

 out the Philippines at low altitudes; a weed, probably introduced. Abys- 

 sinia to Australia and Polynesia. 



Local names: Dalamo (Bis.); damoro (Bis.); daudaua (Bis.); langala 

 (Bis.); lipang-aso (Tag.); lipang-kastila (Tag.); lopa (Pamp.). 



FLEURYA RUDERALIS Gaudich. Bot. Freyc. Voy. (1826) 497; Wedd. 

 in DC. Prodr. 16 * (1869) 74; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 203; 

 C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 476. 



Cavilli and other small islands in Sulu Sea, Merrill Phil. PL 402. In 

 sandy soil near the sea. Java to New Guinea and Polvnesia. 



