PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 
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resembling E. pulchellum, a glabrous species with sessile male receptacles. The 
leaves of E. cheirophyllum, except in the cuneate base, have much resemblance to 
a hand with short stubby fingers. 
9. Ela.tostema simulans sp. nov. 
Basi solum radicans, caulibus rigidiusculis, densiuscule setosis : recep- 
taeulis staminiferis pedunculis gracilibus glabris suffultis, paucifloris ; 
bracteis exterioribus liberis, corniculatis : receptaeulis pistilliferis ses- 
silibus, bracteis exterioribus numerosis, liberis ; perianthio minuto : foliis 
chartaceis, admodrim parvis, oblique oblanceolatis ad obovatis, margine 
ima basi excepta dentatis. 
Monoecious or dioecious : staminate receptacles white, yellowish when 
dry, 2.5 to 5 mm in diameter, borne on glabrous peduncles 8 to 20 mm 
long, outer pair of bracts free from one another, orbicular, about 4 mm 
in length, ciliate on the' apical half of the margins, the strong dorsal keel 
produced into a short spur hardly overtopping the bract; succeeding two 
pairs of bracts obovate, 3 mm long, with less definite keels and spurs, 
otherwise similar to the outer; bracteoles several, similar to the bracts 
but narrower; flowers few, on glabrous pedicels ultimately about 2 mm 
long; perianth-segments 4 or 5, suborbicular, the dorsal spur 1 almost as 
long and sometimes pilose ; filaments and anthers each about 0.6 mm long : 
pistillate receptacles sessile, 2 to 3' mm in diameter, the bracts nearly or 
quite free, numerous, stellately arranged, the outer pair ovate, 1.5 mm 
long, the inner narrower, all more or less pilose, acuminate; flowers 
shortly pedicelled; perianth minute; ovary ellipsoid, about 0.5 mm long, 
the penicillate stigma long-pilose. 
Creeping at the base, but the stems erect or suberect, not exceeding 1 
mm in diameter but almost woody, simple or very rarely branched except 
at the base, quadrangular, densely setose toward the apex, below glabres- 
cent: leaves shortly petioled, the lamina chartaceous, obliquely oblan- 
ceolate to obovate, 4 to 43 mm (usually 15 to 25 mm) lohg, 3 to 20 mm 
wide, the base of the upper side narrowed, rounded at its insertion on 
the petiole, the lower side of the base, produced about 1 mm below the 
upper, forming a short auricle; both margins cut from shortly above the 
base into from 9 to 13 teeth, or on small leaves fewer, even’ to 3 or 4, the 
lower teeth acute, the upper obtuse but apiculate, the sinuses acute, the 
terminal tooth ovate, 2 to 3 .mm long; the upper surface glabrous but 
crowded with conspicuous cystoliths, the under surface destitute of cys- 
toliths but setose or pilose on the veins ; stipules ovate, 2 mm long, 
acuminate. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, Bayombong, Bur. Sci. 8145 Ramos: Prov- 
ince of Laguna, Los Banos, Hallier s. n. A plant with great superficial similarity 
to species of the E. sessile group, but sharply distinguished by its slenderly 
peduncled male receptacles. 
