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in sicco membranacei minute pellucido-punctulati usque ad 21 cm longi 
et ad 8 cm lati. Petioli fere 6 mm longi. Pedunculi usque ad 5.5 cm 
longi. Spica mase. subflorens 4 cm longa et fere 3 mm crassa, bracteae 
pelta 0.75 mm diametro. Spica fem. matura 3 cm longa et fere 10 mm 
crassa, bracteae pelta fere 1 mm diametro, baccae condensae 2 mm longae. 
Stigmata in apice baccae sessilia. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Cuming 1343, masc.: Province of Tayabas, Lucban, 
Elmer 9882, fem. 
Forma b. 
Ramulis magis pilosis, limbis usque 18 cm longis et 9 cm latis. 
MINDANAO, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 574, May. 
Forma c. | 
Ramulis et limbis glabris, petiolis subtus parce pilosis vel glabris, 
limbis 20 em longis et 7.5 cm latis; zona cellularum sclerosarum haud 
continua. 
Minporo, Alag River, For. Bur. 11411 Merritt, fem., April, Nearos, Canlaon 
Voleano, For, Bur. 13679 Curran, fem., September. Mrnpvanao, District of Davao, 
Todaya (Mount Apo), Elmer 11417, August. 
Forma d. 
Ramulis glabris, limbis supra glabris, subtus ad nervum centralem 
parcissime pilosis, 9-ninerviis, 17.5 cm longis et usque ad 3 cm latis, 
zona cellularum sclerosarum continua. 
MINDANAO, District of Davao, Mount Apo, Copeland 1140, mase., April, epiphytic 
in the mossy forest, altitude about 2,000 m. 
24. Piper cristatum C. DC. in Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 3 (1910) 766. 
MINDANAO, District of Davao, Todaya (Mount Apo), Elmer 10703, May. 
25. Piper longistigmum C. DC. 1. ec. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer 7578, May. 
26. Piper albidirameum C. DC. in Perk. Fragm. Fl. Philip. (1905) 153, 
emend, ‘ 
Omnino glabrum, foliis modice petiolatis, magnis, ample subobovato- 
ellipticis, basi ima leviter inaequilatera leviter cordulatis, apice breviter 
et obtusiuscule acuminatis, a nervo centrali inaequilatis, %-plinerviis, 
nervo centrali nervos 2 adscendentes utrinque mittente, quorum supremus 
a 5-6 cm supra basin solutus, nervis lateralibus adscendentibus 3 vel 4 
utrinque a basi solutis; petiolo basi ima vaginante ; stirpis fem. pedunculo 
quam petiolus paullo breviore; spica quam folii limbus pluries breviore, 
eylindrica apice rotunda, bracteae pelta rotunda centro breviter pedicel- 
lata, ovario libero, stigmatibus 3 vel 4 rotundato-ovatis carnosis, bacca 
globosa. 
Dioicum, scandens. Ramuli in sicco albidi vel lutescentes, spiciferi 
fere 3 mm crassi, collenchyma libriforme in fasciculos discretos dispo- 
