OcroBER 31, 1910] PHILIPPINE PIPERACEAE 763 
Peperomia pallidibacca C. DC. sp. nov. 
Foliis modice petiolatis subobovato-ellipticis basi acutis 
apice subacutis, utrinque pilosulis, subtus crebre nigropunct- 
ulatis, 3-nerviis nervuloque marginali ab apice fere usque ad 
medium decurrente; petiolo hirtello; pedunculis terminalibus 
petiolos aequantibus, hirtellis; spicis folii limbum fere triplo 
superantibus subdensifloris; bractea orbiculari nigropunctulata 
centro breviter pedicellata; ovario emerso obovato nigropunc- 
tulato, paullo sub apice et inconspicue stigmatifero; bacca 
elliptica pallide virescente, laevi. 
Herba inter muscos arboricola e nodis radicans. Ramuli 
spiciferi fere 9 cm. longi, dense hirtelli, 0.5 mm. crassi. 
Folia alterna. Limbi in sicco membranacei, superi usque ad 
2 cm. longi et ad 12 mm. lati, inferi magis obovati et usque 
ad 23 mm. longi. Petioli usque ad 5 mm. longi. Spicae 
0.5 mm. crassae. Rhachis tarde sub bacca in processum 
conicum producta. Bacca sessilis fere 0.75 mm. longa. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio (Mt. Santo Tomas), 
A. D. E. Elmer, n. 9844. 
PIPER Linn. 
Sarcostemon C. DC. sect. nov. 
Spicae solitariae, oppositifoliae. Flores dioici. Bractea 
hypopeltata rhachi adnata, et tantum marginibus et extremita- 
tibus libera. Stamen unicum, anthera in apice filamenti car- 
nosi sita, bilocularis, rimis introrsis dehiscens; ovarium liber- 
um. Bacca sessilis. 
Piper korthalsii Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat, I; 139. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, Elmer, ns. 5896, 
8550, 5905 and 8760 fem. Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer, 
n. 7967 fem. 
Negros, Province of Negros Oriental, Dumaguete (Cuernos 
Mts.), Elmer, n. 9598 fem. 
Climbing slender trees up to 15 feet, where it is bushy 
and much branched, in woods at 2000 feet; berries yellow, 
when fully mature reddish. (Elmer ms. for n. 7967). 
