THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



C. Botany 

 Vol. XI SEPTEMBER, 1916 No. 5 



PIPERACEAE PHILIPPINENSES NOVAE VEL NUPER REPERTAE ' 



Auctore C. de Candolle 

 (Geneva, Switzerland) 



Sectio Muldera Hook. f. PL Brit. Ind. 5 (1886) 79 



PIPER SARCOPODUM C. DC. sp. nov. 



Ramulis glabris; foliis modice petiolatis glabris, limbo ovato- 

 acuminato basi leviter inaequilatera utrinque obtuso apice acute 

 acuminata, 7-plinervio, nervo centrali nervos 2 adscendentes al- 

 ternos mittente quorum supremus a 1.5-2 cm supra basin solutus, 

 nervis lateralibus adscendentibus utrinque 2 a basi solutis, petiolo 

 basi vaginante ; stirpis fern, pedunculo glabro petiolum superante, 

 spica glabra limbum aequante vel paullo superante, receptaculo 

 cupuliformi in apice stipitis recti et crassi, bacca globosa, stig- 

 matibus 4 minutis rotundatis. 



Dioicum. Ramuli in sicco nigri, spiciferi 3 mm crassi, collen- 

 chyma libriforme in fasciculos discretos dispositum, fasciculi 

 intramedullares 1-seriati, canalis lysigenus centralis pluresque 

 peripherici. Limbi in sicco firmi opaci, 9-10 cm longi, 5-6 cm 

 lati. Petioli usque ad limbi latus longius 1.1 cm, inter limbi 

 latera 0.2 cm, pedunculi 2 cm longi, bacca matura 4 mm crassa 

 in sicco nigra. 



Luzon, Laguna Province, Bur. Set. 165S6 Ramos, in forests near streams. 



Sectio Sarcostemon C. DC. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 413 

 PIPER KORTHALSII Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 1 (1863) 39. 



Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Merrill 7805, on trees in ravines, altitude 

 about 1,500 m, stems angular, flowers greenish-yellow: Bontoc Subprovince, 



1 The species are arranged in sequence with those in my previous 

 paper on Philippine Piperaceae, Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 405-463. 

 the new species being interpolated according to their relationships. 

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