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anacardioides certainly belongs with L. luzonensis , which Weddell made 
a variety of L. crenulata Gaudieh., and with the exception, probably 
temporary, of L. venosa there is no doubt concerning the others. On 
two adjoining attached fruits on the type sheet of L. anacardioides it is 
possible to get characters which if isolated would suggest three different 
sections. The perianth is subequal (§ Dendrocnide) ; the apical half 
of one pedicel is botuliform-thickened (§ Sarcopus) ; its basal half is 
cylindric (§ Dendrocnide) ; the other pedicel is flattened (§ Sclepsion). 
Taken in conjunction with other material, plates, and descriptions, it 
does not seem possible to retain these species in Dendrocnide, but there 
is not sufficient material here from outside regions to decide whether they 
might be placed under Sclepsion by enlarging its limits, or whether they 
should form a new section. As for our other species, they are all allied 
to L. stimulans (Linn, f.) Miq., and on a very extreme view might be 
made varieties of it, from deliberate judgment or more likely in despair, 
but assuredly no candid worker would take such a step without a de- 
termined attempt to find constant characters for separation, even (or, it 
may be, especially) if he had the Philippine collections alone. I am 
quite convinced that all the species indicated as distinct from one another 
in my recent paper are really so, except that L. subpeltata C. B. Rob., is 
almost certainly no more than an extreme form of L. mindanaensis Warb. 
On the other hand, two of these almost certainly extend to Borneo. But 
emphatic protest is made against placing L. luzonensis with L. crenulata, 
as was done by Weddell, or with L. stimulans, as suggested by Stapf , 2 
in discussing material from Mount Kinabalu, duplicates of which are in 
the Sarawak Museum collections. Such of the Bornean plants as bear 
pistillate inflorescences come within the limits of Dendrocnide „ but a 
staminate collection has certain other characters which indicate it as 
referable to a species of another section. 
Laportea peltata (Bl.) Gaudich. Bot. Voy. Uran. (1826) 498. 
Foot of Mount Braang, Eaviland SJfi, staminate. The specimen agrees well 
with the descriptions of Weddell 3 and Smith, 4 but the leaves are rather obovate 
than ovate, and the basal nerves hardly reach beyond the middle of the leaf, 
differences which may be of little significance in the genus. The species is very 
distinct from any in the Philippines. 
Java, Timor, not previously reported from Borneo. 
Laportea lanaensis C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 483. 
Limbang, Heioitt. The inflorescences are somewhat damaged, but the plant 
is a very close match for the type of the above species, except for slight differences 
in the stipules. 
. Mindanao. 
“Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II 4 (1894) 227. 
3 DC. Prodr. 16 1 (1869) 80. 
4 Koodr. & Val. Bijdr. Boomsort. Java 12 (1910) 678. 
