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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 Polis, 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. 
