768 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 44 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya (Mt. Apo), A. D. 
E. Elmer, n. 10589. . 
Cluster of large shrubs, in fertile soil of thickets or light 
woods; stems several, 10 to 15 feet high, erect, 3 to 5 
inches thick at the base, ringed every foot or two, terete, 
white and greenish gray mottled, one half or more of the 
wood is pith, the other one half hard and rather heavy, 
odorless and tasteless; branches nodulose and rather slender; 
leaves subcoriaceous, nearly flat or conduplicate from the 
base only, much paler beneath; inflorescence opposite the 
lower leaves, recurvingly hanging, 0.5 inch thick, rat tail-like 
yellow, terete. ''Cuyo" is the Bagobo name. (Elmer ms.) 
Piper forstenii C. DC. Prod. XVI’; 348. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya (Mt. Apo.) Elmer, 
n. 11179 fruit. 
Scandent along small or medium sized trees, in dense 
forests of wet stony soil along the Sibulan river at 2500 feet; 
stem rigid, terete, 0.5 to 0.75 inch thick, dark green, longi- 
tudinally striate, branched all along but not numerously; bran- 
ches divaricate, sparingly rebranched; leaves horizontal or 
only slightly descending, flat, rigidly chartaceous, darker green 
on the upper surface, the largest ones 3 feet long and pro- 
portionately wide; veins very conspicuous beneath, causing 
grooves on the upper side; infrutescence pendulous, upon 
2 iuches long green peduncles, terete, hard, quite rigid, nearly 
lemon yellow, more or less crooked and somewhat curved, 
1 to 2 feet long. The Bagobos call it ‘‘Baragit’’. (Elmer ms.) 
Piper aurilimbum C. DC. sp. nov. 
Foliis breviter petiolatis, obovato-ellipticis, basi valde 
inaequilatera cordatis altero latere auriformi petiolum velante, 
apice acute acuminatis, supra glabris subtus ad nervos 
hirtellis, 7-plinerviis nervo centrali nervos 2 adscendentes 
alternatim mittente quorum supremus a 3 cm. supra basin 
solutus, nervis lateralibus adscendentibus utrinque 2 a basi 
solutis nervulisque validis pluribus a basi divaricantibus; petiolo 
hirsuto basi ima vaginante; stirpis fem. pedunculo hirsuto, 
