Ocroser 31, 1910] PHILIPPINE PIPERACEAE 771 
olatis basi aequilatera acutis apice acute acuminatis, 7-pliner- 
viis, nervo centrali nervos 2 adscendentes utrinque alternatim 
mittente quorum supremus a 8 cm. supra basin solutus, nervo 
laterali adscendente aliis breviore utrinque a basi soluto; pe- 
tiolo basi ima vaginante; stirpis fem. pedunculo petiolum 
duplo superante; spica florente quam folii limbus pluries brev- 
lore, cylindrica, apice acuta, bracteae pelta rotunda centro 
pedicellata; ovario libero conoideo, stigmatibus 3 vel 4 erectis 
longis et filiformibus. 
Dioicum. Ramuli spiciferi 1.25 mm. crassi, collenchyma 
fere omnino libriforme, subcontinuum, fasciculi intramedullares 
l-seriati, canalis lysigenis centralis periphericique numerosi. 
Limbi in sicco coriacei, pelluecido-punctvolati, usque ad 17 cm. 
longi et 47 mm. lati. Petioli 2.5 cm., pedunculi 5 cm. longi. 
Spica florens 17 mm. longa, 5 mm. crassa. Bracteae pelta fere 
1 mm. diametro. Ovarium in apice attenuato stigmatiferum, 
stigmata 0.5 mm. longa. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, A. D. E. Elmer, 
n. 7578. 
Piper albidirameum C. DC. in Perkins? Frag. Fl. Philip, 
153. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer, n. 8117* 
Scandent and forming tangled bushes on small trees of 
the woods at 2500 feet; stems 1 inch thick, soft and flexible, 
crooked and nodulose; bark yellowish gray, finely checked 
and toward the base warty; branches subdeflexed, green and 
smooth; leaves thick, leathery, spreading, deep shining green 
above, much paler beneath; inflorescence quite rigid, erect, 
leaf opposed in the uppermost leaves only; mature fruit deep 
red, hard, smooth. (Elmer ms.) 
Piper albidirameum [D] C. DC. forma nov. 
Limbis elliptico-lanceolatis, 16 cm. longis, 6 cm. latis, 
caeterum ut in specie. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya (Mt. Apo), A. D. E. 
Elmer, n. 11056 fruit. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer, n. 7383. 
