The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. VI, No. 4, September, 1911. 
URTICACEAE FROM THE SARAWAK MUSEUM. 
By C. B. Robinson. 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I.) 
At my request, Mr. J. C. Moulton, Curator of the Museum, Sarawak, 
Borneo, has permitted me to examine the collections in the possession of 
that institution belonging to this family. Among these are several species 
hitherto unreported from any part of Borneo. The comparison with 
Philippine species has shed considerable light on the affinities of the 
latter, for although specific identity between the plants of the family 
from the two countries is unusual, the general aspect of the Bornean 
plants is such that they might well have come from some unexplored 
locality in the southern Philippines. There are several undescribed 
species in the collection, but I have left these so whenever there seemed 
to be the least doubt, from the lack of staminate or pistillate material, 
as to the genus or the alliance within the genus. 
FLEUR YA Gaudich. 
Fleurya interrupta (Linn.) Gaudich. Bot. Voy. Uran. (1826) 497. 
Near Kuching, Haviland; Rejang. 
Abyssinia to Polynesia. 
LAPORTEA Gaudich. 
There are in Philippine species two types of pistillate inflorescence. 
One is represented only by L. luzonensis Warb. and L. anacctrdioides 
C. B. Eob., with the possible addition of L. venosa Elmer, of which the 
pistillate inflorescence is unknown. In these the individual flowers are 
pedicelled, and the 4 perianth-segments are not exactly alike but can not 
be called strongly unequal, one pair is usually somewhat narrower than 
the other but with some variation in this respect. As for the pedicels, 
judging from herbarium material, they may or may not become succulent : 
when they do, pressure in drying may cause them' to appear succulent or 
even winged. I have previously stated 1 that all our species belong in 
the section Dendrocnide , as limited by Weddell. This is correct, as L. 
1 This Journal 5 (1910) -Bot. 477. 
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