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ROBINSON. 
prolongation of the ovary, shortly pilose especially at the apex; ovary 0.7 
mm long, at the apex contracted into a horn-like process 0.4 mm long, 
this continuous with a very slightly pilose stigma about 1 mm long. 
Plants 20 to 30 cm high, the stems slender, terete, slightly woody at 
the base, below slightly apically densely short-pubescent: leaves opposite, 
varying greatly in size but those of a pair similar, petioles densely pubes- 
cent, 1 to 3 cm long, or on reduced leaves still shorter, lamina mem- 
branaceous, oval or oval-obovate, 1.5 to 5 cm long, 8 to 30 mm wide, the 
base subacute to somewhat rounded, the margins except at the extreme 
base serrate, the serrations acute or acutely acuminate, the apex abruptly 
or somewhat abruptly contracted into an acute acumen 2 to 4 mm long, 
upper surface somewhat sparingly pilose, the under more densely pubes- 
cent on the veins, 3 -nerved, with 2 or 3 additional slender veins ; stipules 
lanceolate, acuminate, persistent, 3 to 4 mm long, pilose on the costa. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Rio Trinidad, on rocks, Bur. Sci. 5 5 42 Ramos. 
Allied to B. gracilis Wright, but differing in several characters. 
SPECIES EXCLUDENDAE. 
1. Boehmeria arachnoidea Walp. Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 
1: 423. 
Pouzolzia arachnoidea (Walp.) Wedd. 
2. Boehmeria cylindrica Willd. Sp. PI. 4 1 (1805) 340. 
This American species is reported by Walpers, 1. c., as collected by Meyen at 
Jalajala on the northern shore of Laguna de Bay. The specimen appears not to 
be in the Berlin herbarium, at least under Boehmeria. 
3. Boehmeria interrupta Willd. 1. e. 342. 
Fleurya interrupta Gaudich. 
4. Boehmeria malabarica Wedd. in Arch. Mus. Paris 9 (1856) 355. 
Reported by Villar, but not recently collected. 
11. POUZOLZIA Gaudich. 
KEY TO THE PHILIPPINE SPECIES OF POUZOLZIA. 
Glomerules borne on an elongate terminal spike .Sh,.,..-. 1. P. arachnoidea 
Glomerules axillary. 
Leaves serrate or dentate. 
Stipules lanceolate . .hkhSL. - 2. P. dentata 
Stipules much wider, involucrating glomerules..... 3. P. rubricaulis 
Leaves entire 1..... ..LL,.;h,.^............. 4. P. zeylanica 
1. Pouzolzia arachnoidea Wedd. in DC. Prodr. 1 6 1 (1869) 228. 
Boehmeria arachnoidea Walp. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 
1: 423. 
Pouzolzia macrura Wedd. in Arch. Mus. Paris 9 (1856) 396. 
Stachyocnide luzonica Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 2 (1856) 228, pi. 55. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Sur, San Quintin, For. Bur. 5630 Rlemme: Province 
of Riz'al, Montalban, Phil. PI. 30 Merrill, Bur. Sci. 9520 Robinson; Antipolo, 
Bur. Sci. 129 Foxworthy, For. Bur. 3142 Ahern’s collector; Morong, Bur. Sci. 1439 
