PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 
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Stems apparently creeping with erect branches, up to 30 cm long, 
densely nearly appressed-pubescent : leaves subssessile, the lamina firmly 
membranaceous, inequilateral, obliquely oval or somewhat lanceolate or 
obovate, 15 to 26 mm long, 7 to 13 mm wide, one side of base rounded, 
the other acute, the narrower side with from 2 to 5 teeth, the wider 
with from 4 to 7, the apical tooth little or not projecting beyond the 
general outline of the leaf ; sparingly pilose on the upper surface, 
strongly so beneath especially on the veins, the upper with numerous 
linear cystoliths, the under minutely punctate, subtriplinerved, the 
basal nerve of the narrower side distinctly longer that the usually 2 
veins, on the wider side little or. not longer than the 3 veins; stipules 
lanceolate, about 3 mm long. 
Luzon, Province of Bontoc, Vanoverbergh 587 (type). With this may belong 
Merrill 4378, Baguio to Ambuklao, Benguet, with immature pistillate receptacles. 
The position of the staminate peduncle is so entirely different from that in any 
other of our species that there is a bare possibility that it may prove a mon- 
strosity, otherwise it is a perfectly typical Eldtostema. The structure of the 
receptacles shows that it is not at all a primitive form, as is the case with a 
high proportion of our species having peduncled receptacles. 
{To be concluded.'] 
