PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 
485 
cent, recurving: achenes compressed, nearly circular in outline, over 2.5 
mm in diameter. 
A widely spreading, tree, its branchlets covered with, yellowish bark : 
leaves on petioles 3 to 8 cm long, the younger pilose, the .older glabrous 
or nearly so ; lamina somewhat rigidly chartaceous, oval-ovate to oval- 
obovate, 16 to over 20 cm long, 6.5 to 13 cm wide, the bas,e broadly 
rounded, very close to the petiole becoming acute, the margins when dry 
revolute, the apex contracted into a slender acute acumen, the- upper 
surface glabrous or when young with a few scattered hairs, the under 
brown-lepidote and shortly white-pilose; 5-plinerved, the upper pair of 
nerves extending one-third the length of the lamina , or more, additional 
pairs of veins 20 to 12. 
Leyte, Palo, Elmer 1351. 
13. Laportea subpeltata sp. nov. 
Infiorescentiis pistilliferis admodum longis, ramosis, stimuliferis, 
floribus sessilibus in receptaculis flabellatim dispositis-: foliis rigide 
chartaceis, ovalibus, basi rotundatis, subpeltatis, margine undulatis, apice 
brevissime acuminatis, 5- vel 7-plinerviis ; stipulis ovatis, extus dense 
pubescentibus. 
Pistillate inflorescences nearly 20 cm long, the branches attaining 6 
cm, the rachises especially toward the apex armed with stinging hairs; 
receptacles about 4 mm in diameter, on pedicels 2 to 7 mm long, bearing 
rather numerous flabellately arranged sessile flowers : perianth-segments 
4, lanceolate, pubescent, about 0.6 mm long; ovary compressed, oval in 
outline, about 0.6 mm long; stigma pubescent, attaining nearly 2 mm in 
length, recurving : achenes hardly mature. 
A tree 10.5 m high, with a trunk 15 cm in diameter, the glabrous bark 
o^ the ultimate branchlets very dark-red when dry : leaves on puberulent 
petioles' 3.5 to 7 cm long, the lamina rigidly chartaceous, oval, 11 to 18 
cm long, 6.5 to 12 cm wide, the base broadly rounded, very shallowly 
■ cordate, subpeltate^, the margins undulate, when dry slightly revolute, the 
apex abruptly contracted into a small acumen 2 to 3 mm long; upper 
surface dark-green, under light-green when fresh, both drying brown, 
when young densely pilose on the veins and somewhat between them, when 
mature glabrous except for a few hairs on the principal' veins; 5- or 
7-plinerved, the uppermost pair of nerves extending from one-fourth to 
one-third the length of the lamina, additional pairs of veins 9 to 12; 
stipules - ovate, very shortly acuminate, densely pubescent on the outer 
surface except the margins, nearly 1 cm long. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Bliss River, at 1050 m elevation on low land 
near river, For. Bur. 4586 M earns & Hutchinson. Of our species, this is probably 
closest to L. densiflora, but in the latter the leaves are larger, more deeply cordate 
at the base, the under surface especially on the mid-vein and the inflorescence is 
more pubescent while the stipules are glabrous. 
Local name (Moro) : sagi. 
