PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 
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8. Laportea rigid ifol ia sp. nov. 
Infloreseentiis pistiliferis longiusculis, floribus in receptaculis conspicne 
bracteatis suffultis : foliis rigidis, lanceolatis, oblongo-laneeolatis, vel 
-elliptieis, basi emarginatis, margine integris, apice acutis vel acute sub- 
acuminatis. 
Pistillate inflorescences 12 to 20 cm long, the rachises sparingly pubes- 
cent, the branches mostly short, with bracts up to 1 cm- in length at their 
insertion on the rachis: flowers in a single marginal row on flabellate 
receptacles about 4 mm wide, bearing numerous bracteoles 3.5 to 5 mm 
long, and with numerous stinging hairs on the portion of the surface not 
covered by flower’s: perianth-segments 4, lanceolate to ovate, over 1 mm 
long, armed with a few stinging hairs ; ovary about 1 mm long, the 
subulate stigma 2 to 3 mm long: fruiting receptacles . apparently not 
enlarged, the achenes obliquely orbicular, compressed, 5 mm in diameter, 
minutely tuberculate. 
A shrub or small tree 2 to 3 m high, with a stem 10 cm in diameter: 
leaves with petioles 3.5 to 6 cm long, the rigidly coriaceous lamina 
lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or elliptic, 20 to 26 cm long, 5 to. 8.5 cm 
wide, the base rounded or gradually narrowed, more or less emarginate, 
the margins entire, revolute, the apex acutely acuminate or merely acute ; 
lateral veins on each, side of the midrib 9 to 11, strongly ascending, poarse 
and projecting on the lower surface, under surface of the young leaves 
densely pubescent, glabrescent when mature except , on the veins, upper 
surface glabrous; stipules (or bracts at the insertion of the inflorescence) 
ovate, 2.5 cm long. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Mount Tonglon (Santo Tomas), Williams 991 
(type) ; Cayapa, For. Bur. 15801 Curran. / 
9. Laportea gracilipes Elmer Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 3 (1910) 876. 
Arbor parva,. erecta : infloreseentiis solitariis, axillaribus, laxe ramosis, 
12 ad 25 cm longis, rhachidibus stimulis instructis; receptaculis carnosis, 
siccitate 3 ad 5 mm diametro, flores sessiles circiter 10 flabellatim geren- 
tibus: foliis petiolis 3.5 ad 5 cm longis suffultis, laminis siccis submem- 
branaceis, oblanceolatis vel rarius elliptieis vel oblongis, 8 ad 17 cm longis, 
basi acutis, apice abrupte breviterque acuminatis, margine integris, utrin- 
que glabris vel subtus obscure pilosiusculis ; stipulis laneeolato-ovatis, 
glabris vel margine modo eiliatis, 8 ad 10 mm longis. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Mount Apo, Todaya, at 1200 m elevation, 
Elmer 10^99. 
Local name: sigmit. 
10. Laportea lanaensis sp. nov. 
Arbor ( ?) : infloreseentiis multo minus ramosis, rhachidibus ' stimuli- 
feris ; floribus fructibusque sessilibus, in receptaculis flabellatim dispositis : 
■ foliis longiuscule petiolatis, oblanceolatis, elliptico-oblanceolatis, vel obo- 
