PHILIPPINE URTICACEAE. 3 
Mindoro, Cuming 1561 (eotype). Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Zam- 
boanga, Merrill 51/68. 
Endemic. 
3. Boehmeria villoSa sp. nov. 
Boehmeria blumei Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 ( 1908) Bot. 404, non Wedd. 1. c. 
Boehmeriae blumei admodum similis, sed differt foliis oppositis haud 
valde inaequimagnis ; glomerulis axillaribus, monoicis vel dioicis, perian- 
thio pistillifero tridentato, piloso, ovario longe acuminato, stigmate 
filiforme uuo latere piloso : foliis ovatis, basi rotundatis emarginatis, 
margine dentatis, apiee acuminatis, pagina superiore seabris, subtus 
petiolisque sericeo-villosis. 
Monoecious and dioecious: glomerules axillary, those from opposite 
leaves often confluent or nearly so, up to 1 cm in diameter, sessile: 
staminate flowers subtended by oblanceolate to obovate bracts 1.5 to 3 
mm long, the pedicels varying with the stage of development to 3 mm 
in length; perianth deeply 4-parted, the segments ovate, acuminate, 
ciliate, 1 to 1.5 mm long; filaments about 2 mm long; anthers 0.5 mm 
long: pistillate glomerules with the bracts and pedicels as in the stami- 
nate; perianth free from the ovary but closely inclosing it, remaining 
membranaceous, strongly narrowed above the ovary and surrounding 
its beak, 3-toothed, 2 to 2.5 mm long, pilose on the back and especially 
at the apex; ovary ellipsoid, compressed, about 1.2 mm long, at the 
apex contracted into a beak about two-thirds its length, the beak narrowed 
to a slender point and continuous with a filiform stigma over 2 mm 
long and pilose along one side. 
Stems woody at the base, branching at the base and widely or slightly 
above, more or less angled, increasingly villose-tomentose toward the 
apex: leaves opposite, the petioles of those of a pair distinctly unequal, 
of mature leaves about 1 to 1.5 cm and 2 to 2.5 cm respectively, 
lamina subchartaceous, ovate, the opposing similar and unequal in size, 
but never greatly reduced, the larger 9 to 10 cm long, 3.5 to 4.5 cm 
wide, the smaller 5 to 7 cm long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm wide, all inequilateral 
at the rounded slightly emarginate entire base, the margins with acute 
or obtuse often acuminate teeth, the apex gradually contracted into 
an acumen 2 to' 3 cm long ; upper surface flat or somewhat rugose, ap- 
pressed-pubescent,, scabrous, under surface and petioles densely villose- 
tomentose; stipules lanceolate or narrowly oblong-lanceolate, slenderly 
long-acuminate, up to 7 mm in length or on the branchlets shorter, 
scarious on the margins, pilose along the middle. 
Batanes Islands, Batan Island, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3151/ 
FSnix (type), Bur. Sci. 3227 Mearns ; Sabtan Island, Bur. Sci. 10116 McGregor. 
Allied to B. sidaefolia, Wedd., but easily recognized by its woody stem, pubes- 
cence, the stouter petioles, and the thicker leaves, having moreover a much longer 
pistillate perianth and wider stipules. 
