PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 
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Pistillate injflorescences .axillary, mostly crowded with the leaves near 
the apices of the branches, 3 to 7 cm long, usually 3 -to 4 times branched, 
or reduced to panicles, unarmed or with a very few swinging hairs, the 
individual flowers mostly in threes, each upon a nearly cylindric pedicel 
0.5 to 1 mm long, the bracteoles narrowly lanceolate, about 1 mm long; 
perianth at anthesis less than 1 mm long, nearly equally divided into 4 
broadly lanceolate lobes, in fruit somewhat increased, forming a shallow 
cup with the lobfes less conspicuous; ovary suborbicular, compressed, 
slightly oblique, 1 mm in diameter/ stigma narrowly conic, 1 mm long, 
minutely pubescent, its base 0.3 to 0.4 mm in diameter, the slender apex 
more or less recurved; achene 2 mm long, black when dry, suborbicular, 
hardly or not ventricose : staminate inflorescence unknown. 
A tree over 10 m high, with a trunk 15 cm in diameter, the bark 
yellowish, flaky, the ' vegetative parts apparently glabrous : leates at the 
ends of the branches, their petioles 1.5 to 4 cm long, the lamina membra- 
naceous or nearly chartaceous, oblanceolate, somewhat but irregularly 
inequilateral, 15 to 22 . cm long, 3 to 5.3 cm wide, the greatly narrowed 
base acute or subobtuse, the margins entire, the apex forming an acute 
or nearly acute acumen 5 to 10 mm long ; lateral veins on each side of the, 
midrib 14 to 16, parallel-ascending or the upper arched, not forming a 
marginal vein ; stipules triangular-lanceolate, glabrous, acute, 9 mm long. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Santa Cruz, Williams 2766. Distinguished from 
the preceding not only by the narrower leaves with more numerous and less 
arched veins, but by the much less ventricose ovary and achene, and other 
ctmraseters. 
3. Laportea densiflora sp. nov. 
■ Inflorescentiis pistilliferis longis, admodum late clivaricatis, dense 
pubescentibus ; floribus in receptaculis . flabellatis congestis ; perianthio 
admodum alte quadrifido, stigmate subulato : folds late ovalibus, magnis, 
basi cordatis, apice brevissime acuminatis, venis utrinque 16. 
Pistillate inflorescence (one seen), about 26.5 cm long, rather widely 
branching, therachises densely covered with whitish or brownish pubes- 
cence : flowers sessile,, crowded upon the surface and margins of recepta- 
cles ; the receptacles about 20-flowered, 1 to 2 mm in diameter, their 
pedicels mostly about 3 mm long ; bracteoles ovate, obtuse, acuminate, 1 
mm long: perianth about O'. 5 mm long, its 4 lobes lanceolate, acuminate; 
ovary compressed, oval, somewhat ventricose, about 1 mm long, stigma 
subulate, pubescent, about 2 mm long. Staminate inflorescence (only 
one seen) , about 8 cm. long, the flowers apparently grouped as the 
pistillate, but too immature. 
A tree 8 m high, with a stem 8 cm in diameter : leaves with petioles 
11.5 cm long (one complete specimen), lamina subcoriaceous, broadly oval 
or ovate, 32 cm long, 23 cm wide, the base cordate, the margins entire, the 
extreme apex forming a very short acumen; lateral veins on each side of 
