772 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 44 
In light woods at 1500 feet, in damp fertile soil; 
scandent and numerously branched all along, forming a 
dense jungle of leaves about or over its support; stem 0.5 
inch thick, terete, greenish but roughened by numerous 
brown lenticels arranged longitudinally, soft and flexible; 
branchlets slender, lax, green and drooping; leaves coria- 
ceous, descending, a trifle conduplicate on the upper deep- 
er green surface, tips slightly recurved; cylindrical spikes 
1 to 3 inches long, erect upon the greenish peduncle, rather 
hard, dull red, quite ornamental when fruits are ripe. 
'"Cangol" is the Bagobo name. (Elmer ms. for n. 11056) 
Piper pendulifolium C. DC. sp. nov. 
Omnino glabrum, foliis breviter petiolatis, ample ovatis 
basi ima brevissime inaequilatera cordulatis apice brevissime 
acuminatis, a nervo centrali utrinque inaequilatis, 9-ninerviis 
nervo centrali altero latere nervum adscendentem altero ner- 
vos duos adscendentes mittente quorum supremus 7-9 cm. 
supra basin solutus, aliis nervis a basi solutis magis arcuatis 
quorum ultimi multo tenuiores; petiolo basi ima vaginante; 
stirpis fem. pedunculo petiolum fere aequante, spica quam folii 
limbus pluries breviore; bracteae glabrae pelta rotunda mem- 
branacea centro brevissime pedicellata, ovario inferne rhachi 
immerso superne umbonato, stigmatibus 3 rotundatis carnosis. 
Dioicum scandens. Caulis fere 20 mm. crassus. Ramuli 
in sicco pallescentes, circiter 3 mm. crassi, collenchyma li- 
briforme in fasciculos tenues a latere elongatos dispositum, 
fasciculi intramedullares 1-seriati, canales lysigenes plures 
quorum unus centralis aliique peripherici. Limbi in vivo 
coriacei, penduli supra obscure virescentes subtus pallidiores, 
circiter 22.5 cm. longi in medio a nervo centrali altero latere 
8 cm. altero 6 cm. lati. Petiole usque ad 2 cm. longi. 
Pedunculi 1.5 em. longi. Spica in vivo suberecta virescens et 
plerumque curvata, submatura 4.5 cm. longa et 3 mm. 
crassa. Bracteae pelta vix 1 mm. diametro. Stigmata in 
apice baccae sessilia, in viva fuscescentia. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya (Mt. Apo), A. D. E. 
Elmer, n. 10942. 
A tree climber in woods at 1500 feet along the Bara- 
