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leaves slightly denticulate; lateral nerves about 18 on each side of 
the midrib, spreading, somewhat curved, prominent on the lower 
surface, the reticulations rather distinct; petioles 1 to 1.5 em. long, 
densely pubescent; stipules oblong-ovate, iequilateral, pubescent, 
acuminate, about 12 mm. long. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, 
globose, 2 cm. or more in diameter (immature), their peduncles 
densely pubescent, somewhat thickened upward, about 4+ em. long, 
the surface grayish-puberulent, the position of the numerous an- 
thocarps indicated by small areolae less than 0.5 mm. in diameter, 
the tips of the anthocarps not projecting. Seeds apparently few 
im each syncarp. 
British North Borneo, Sandakan, Villamil 168, March, 1916. 
On open slopes at an altitude of about 80 m. This species mani- 
festly belongs in the group with Artocarpus lakoocha Roxb., but is 
readily distinguished from it and from other species in the same 
alliance by its peltate leaves. 
URTICACEAE. 
Laportea Gaudichaud. 
Laportea oblanceolata sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 8 m. alta; foliis oblanceolatis, subcoriaceis, 
usque ad 3d cm. longis, integris, tenuiter acuminatis, deorsum at- 
tenuato-angu-tatis, subsessilibus vel breviter petiolatis, nervis utrin- 
que circiter 12, perspicuis; infructescentiis longe pedunculatis, 
folia subaequantibus, floribus flabellatim dispositis, receptaculis 
accrescentibus. 
A tree about 8 m. high, somewhat pubescent, the older parts 
nearly glabrous except for the short persisting stinging hairs. 
Ultimate branches rather stout, about 8 mm. in diameter when 
dry, rugo:e, the leaf scars conspicuous. Leaves oblanceolate, sub- 
coriaceous, entire, olivaceous, 25 to 35 em. long, 6 to 12 em. wide, 
rather slenderly acuminate, gradually narrowed below to the at- 
tenuate-decurrent base, white- -punctate on both surfaces, the upper 
surface glabrous, the lower with short stiff hairs; lateral nerves 
about 12 on each side of the midrib, prominent: petiole 1 cm. long 
or less, the lamina often decurrent to the very base; stipules ovate, 
up to 1.5 em. long. Younes 2 inioreccences up to 17 em. long, 
with numerous short, stiff, white hairs, in fruit long pedunecled and 
equalling the leaves in length. Female flowers sessile in a single 
row on or near the margins of the flabellate receptacle, the re- 
ceptacle accrescent, lobed, and in fruit up to 1 cm. in diameter. 
Achenes glabrous, com'pressed, ovate, more or less inequilateral, 
about 4 mm. long. Styles somewhat pubescent, about 3 mm. long. 
British North Borneo, Batu Lima, near Sandakan, Agama 
1026 (type), Ramos 1247, November, 1920 ; Baloran River, Labuk 
Bay, Wood 676, March, 1919. On steep slopes and in open places 
at low altitudes. <A species probably as close to Laportea stimulans 
R. A. Soe.. No. 85, 1922. 
