ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
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Closely allied to Ficus oleaefolia King, from Sumatra, but distinguished by 
its longer peduncles, longer-pedicellate male flowers, and its much more papillose 
leaves. 
URTICACE2E. 
BOEHMERIA Jacq. 
Boehimeria multiflora sp. nov. 
Arbuscula (?), glomerulis spicatis vel rarissime ramos juniores am- 
plectentibus erectis vel ascendentibus, dioieis ; floribus masculinis 
ignotis; perianthio femineo tubuloso breviter bidentato arete ovarium 
includente; stigmate longe exserto; foliis decussatis, lanceolato-ovatis, 
subcoriaceis, inaequalibus, longe petiolatis, caudatis, margine serratis. 
Inflorescence consisting of many-flowered densely crowded and almost 
confluent spiked glomerules, or rarely surrounding young branches, the 
spikes 9-20 cm long, the glomerules wanting at the extreme base of the 
spike, usually 4-5 mm in diameter ; dioecious, only female flowers present, 
these very short-pedicelled, in all 2.5-3 mm long; the perianth 1.4-1. 7 
mm long, closely inclosing but not adherent to the ovary, with 2 lobes 
0.2-0. 3 mm long at the apex, pilose; the pilose ovary narrowed in the 
basal 0.5 mm, there surrounding only the funicle of the oblong or ellip- 
soid 0.6 mm long ovule; stigma 1.5 mm long, exserted, linear, not 
articulated, pilose. 
A branching plant with a woody stem 2.5 m high and 2.5 cm in 
diameter, conspicuously 4 -grooved and somewhat angled, brown-tomentose 
and white-pilose; the leaves decussate, or on young branches alternate, 
those of a pair unequal, the longer having petioles with pubescence like 
the stem and 2.4-2. 8 cm long, lanceolate-ovate, in all 9-13.5 cm long, 
3. 2-3. 6 cm wide, at the apex caudate or barely acuminate, sometimes 
falcate, the base rounded, truncate, or most often subeordate, the shorter 
leaves with petioles only 8-11 mm long, similar to the longer ones but 
shorter-pointed, 6. 5-7. 2 cm long, 2. 2-2. 8 cm wide, all subcoriaceous, in- 
equilateral or subequilateral, dentate-serrate on the margins except at 
the extreme base, the upper surface pubescent like the stem, not or 
barely scabrid, with abundant cystoliths, the under surface densely brown- 
tomentose with the veins pilose, 3-nerved at the base, the side nerves 
continuing from over one-half to two-thirds the length of the lamina, 
with 12-15 primary veins on each side of the midrib, more conspicuous 
above the middle of the leaf owing to their more abundant pubescence,, 
secondary and tertiary venation with numerous anastomoses, immersed in 
the upper surface, very conspicuously projecting from the under; stipules 
linear-lanceolate, 8-9 mm long, long-pointed, keeled, deciduous. 
Type collected at Baguio, Province of Benguet, Luzon; by II. S. Williams, 
no. 1088, June 6, 1904. 
