1638 I.RAPLETS OF PHIUPPI-SE BoTAVY [VoL. V, ArT. 8? 



soil on a steep wooded slope of Cawilanan peak at 4250 

 feet altitude. 



Very near to P. piperi Merr. based an Prof. C. V. 

 Piper's number 519 from Hinatnan, but ours ia distinctly 

 alpine, leaves curing brigVit green, -with more prominent 

 nerves and with a denser pubencence; our fruits are much more 

 tapering in the dry state than in Piper'' s plant. 



Polyosma urdanetensis Elm. n. sp. 



Crooked tree; stem 6 dm. thick, irregularly round, crooked 

 and subereot, 12 m. high, branched toward the top; wood 

 dingy white, quite without odor and taste, not hard but 

 very tough; bark very thick, latericius, somewhat checked 

 on the surface, the outer one half beneath the epidermis 

 yellowish, the inner portion whitish, easily peeling from the 

 wood; main branches few, also crooked, rebranched; twigs 

 ascendingly curved, dull green, glabrous, rather long and 

 sparingly rebranched. Leaves thick and leathery, ascending, 

 glabrous, lucid dark green and shallowly folded on the 

 upper side, paler green beneath, drying very unequally blackish 

 on the two sides, diverse in size, the larger blades 2 dm. 

 long, 9 cm. wide above the middle, obovately oblong, the 

 smaller ones less than one half as large and broadly oblanceolate, 

 apex broadly roiinded or obtuse, base obtuse or more fre- 

 quently subcuneate, margins entire in the dry state at least 

 recurved; midvein raised beneath, narrowly grooved along 

 the upper side, black, glabrous, the 10 to 15 divaricate 

 lateral pairs les^ prominent and coarsely anastomosing toward 

 their ends, reticulations equally visible from both sides; peti- 

 ole stout, glabrous, black when falling. Spike erect, terminal, 

 glabrous an<l green, 1 to 1.5 dm. long, stout, obscurely 

 angled or striate, not equalling the foliage, flower bearing from 

 the near the base, subtended at the base by a small pair or 

 two of terminal leaves; pedicels 5 mm. long, rigid, olivaceous 

 pubescent, terminated at the apex by 3 low bracts; calyx fully as 

 long and about as wide across the 5 rigidly dentate apex, 

 thick, subtended on the lower side at the base by 3 very 

 unequal bracts, the middle one being twice as large, all of 

 them thick and rigid; corolla bud yellowish gray pubescent; 



