OCTOBER 31, 1910] PHILIPPINE PIPERACEAE 767 
Scandent upon small trees in damp forests of a steep 
slope at 2500 feet of mount Burebid; stem 1 inch thick, 
terete, grayish brown mottled, flexible, branched; branches 
forming a dense tangled mass at the top, slender, drooping, 
freely rebranched, terete, green, quite rigid; leaves subchar- 
taceous, descending, flat, dull green above, paler beneath; 
fruit terminal or leaf opposed, pendulous, upon a 1 to 2 
inches long terete green stalk; spikes also terete, hard, quite 
smooth and rigid, dark brick red. The leaves of this species 
are the second best chewing for the natives. This species 
is called ''Cabansal by the Bagobos. (Aimer ms.) 
Piper lageniovarium C. DC. sp. nov. 
Foliis longe petiolatis, rotundato-ovatis, basi inaequilatera 
profunde cordatis, apice breviter et acute acuminatis, supra 
glabris subtus ad nervos minutissime puberulis, 10-plinerviis, 
nervo centrali nervos 2 adscendentes alternatim mittente, 
quorum supremus a 3-3.5 cm. supra basin solutus, nervis 
lateralibus in latere majore 4 in minore 3 a basi solutis; 
petiolo juniore hirtello cito glabro, basi vaginante; stirpis 
fem. pedunculo glabro quam petiolus breviore, spica florente 
foliilimbum aequante apice attenuata, rhachi villosa, bracteae 
pelta rotunda glabra in margine crenulata pedicello oblongo 
membranaceo et villoso; ovario libero glabro, lageniformi, 
stigmatibus 3 brevibus et linearibus. 
Dioicum, frutex 3-5 m. altus. Caulis glaber, teres, in 
vivo inferne 8-18 cm. crassus, in sicco sub pedunculis 8 mm. 
crassus, collenchyma haud libriforme in fasciculos a latere 
valde elongatos dispositum, sed subcontinuum, fasciculi in- 
tramedullares 2-seriati, canalislysigenis unicus centralis. :Limbi 
in sicco membranacei, minutissime pellucido-punctulati, 20 
cm. longi, 19.5 cm. lati; basis lobi a summo petiolo di- 
varicantes quorum alter 8 cm. alter 7 cm. longus. Petioli 
3.5 em., peduneuli 2.5 cm. longi. Spicae in vivo 26 mm., 
in sicco circiter 6 mm. inferne crassae. Bracteae pelta 
fere 1 mm. diametro. Ovarium 1.5 mm. longum superne 
attenuatum. Planta P. methysticum Forst. sat referens, limbis 
multiplinerviis ec spicis multo longioribus ac ramulorum struc- 
tura et sexu ab eo discrepans. 
