"OcroBER 31, 1910] PHILIPPINE PIPERACEAE rir unl 
viis, nervo centrali nervos adscendentes altero latere 2 altero 
9 mittente; petiolo basi ima vaginante; stirpis masc. pedun- 
culo petiolum duplo superante, tenui, spica quam folii limbus 
fere dimidio breviore, bracteae pelta rotunda sessili; stamin- 
ibus 2, antheris rotundatis quadrivalvatis quam filamenta 
oblonga paullo latioribus. : 
Dioicum, epiphyticum. . Ramuli in sicco flavescentes, adulti 
longitudinaliter striati, juveniles brevissime costulati, spiciferi 
0.5 mm. crassi, collenchyma fere omnino libriforme in fas- 
cieulos tenues a latere elongatos dispositum, fasciculi intrame- 
dullares 1l-seriati, canales lysigenes multi quorum unus cen- 
tralis. Limbi in sicco rigidi pellucido-punctulati superi usque 
ad 8 cm. longi et 3.5 cm. lati; inferi saltem 21 cm. longi. 
Petioli usque ad limbi latus longius 2 mm., inter limbi latera 
5 mm. longi. Pedunculi circiter 20 nim. longi 0.5 mm. crassi; 
spicae florentes in specimine vivo usque ad 5.5 cm. longae et 
2 mm. crassae, in vivo usque ad 21 cm. longae. Rhachis 
canalibus lysigenibus multis ut in ramulo munita.  Bracteae 
pelta 1 mm. diametro. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya (Mt. Apo), A. D. E. 
Elmer, n. 11764. 
In light woods of fertile soil at 3000 feet; main branch- 
es a few inches thick, widely spreading, freely rebranched; 
wood soft, green, pepperish in taste, with a large pith; bark ` 
greenish or turning brownish, smootish, minutely checked 
or cracked longitudinally and more or less lenticelled; branch- 
lets numerous, crookedly rebranched, forming dense bushes, 
yellowish green with ascending green tips; old leaves rigidly 
coriaceous, recurved and strongly folded upon the upper 
duller green surface, smaller leaves lighter green and lucid 
on the upper side, old leaves 6 inches long at least and 
coarsely rugose on the upper side, nervose beneath; peduncle 
green, pendulously recurved; the flowering spikes pendulous, 
3 to 6 inches long, usually curved or wand-like, terete, other- 
wise light yellow. ''Maiucaw" is the Bagobo vernacular 
name. (Elmer ms.) 
Piper oblongibaccum C. DC. sp. nov. 
Foliis brevissime petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis basi inae- 
