776 LEAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Anr. 
subattenuatis et basi ima  aequilatera acutis apice acute 
acuminatis utrinque glabris, 7-plinerviis nervo centrali 1 
em. supra basin trifido, nervisque adscendentibus utrinque 
2a basi solutis; petiolo glabro paullo ultra basin vaginante; 
stirpis fem. pedunculo glabro quam petiolus paullo breviore, 
spica matura quam folii limbus pluries breviore, cylindrica 
apice rotundata vel irregulari et incomplete maturescente, 
rhachi hirsuta, bractea glabra transverse elliptica, centro 
sessili; baccis inferne rhachi immersis, superne liberis glo- 
bosis glabris, apice breviter stiliferis, stigmatibus 3 vel 4 
lanceolatis. 
Dioicum, scandens. Ramuli glabri, spiciferi 1.5 mm. 
crassi, collenchyma in fasciculos discretos dispositum, haud 
libriforme, fasciculi intramedullares [1-seriati, canalis lysige- 
nis unicus centralis. Limbi in sicco rigidi, sat crebre pellu- 
cido-punctulati, usque ad 9 cm. longi et 4 cm. lati. Petio- 
li adulti usque ad 3 cm. longi. Spica matura quando re- 
gularis 2.5 cm. longa et 2 cm. crassa in sicco rubescens. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, A. D. E. Elmer, 
n. 8784. 
Leaves flexible but thick and leathery, olive green above, 
much paler beneath; fruit recurved from leaf axils, soli- 
tary, very irregular in shape, more or less gnarly, red. 
Below the barrio of Bacaken. (Elmer ms. for n. 8784) 
Piper corylistachyon C. DC. Prod. XVI; 346. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Los Baños, Elmer, n. 89201* 
masc. 
Piper rectrofractum Vahl Enum. I; 814. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Bimer. 
n. 6862. 
Piper striatum C. DC. sp. nov. 
Omnino glabrum, foliis modice petiolatis ovato-lanceo- 
latis basi ima distincte inaequilatera utrinque acutis vel altero 
lateré subrotundatis, apice obtusiuscule attenuatis penniner- 
