Pilea luzonensis Merr.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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1370$. Pilea lusonensis Merr. A low suffruteseent
plant in a wet densely forested flat« in stony soil near
a lagoon called by the native* Danou at &QQ0 feetj item
a yard high, quite rigid and easily breaking, green,
ringed at the nodes and swollen between them, branched;
branches horisontally spreadings leaves descending, pleas*
ing green, flat, coriaceous, but paltr beneath, the terminal
ones usually larger, flowers scattering from the leaf
wile, pale white cxoept the greenish strike, easily break*
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