OCTOBER 31, 1910] PHILIPPINE PIPERACEAR 
acutis apice acute et sat longe acuminatis, supra glabris vel 
ad nervos parcissime puberulis, 5-plinerviis nervis adscen- 
dentibus, centrali a5 mm. supra basin trifido, nervo laterali 
utrinque a basi soluto; petiolo puberulo basi ima vaginante; 
pedunculo glabro petiolum fere aequante; stirpis masc. spica 
florente quam folii limbus pluries breviore, rhachi hirtella; 
bracteae glabrae pelta rotunda, pedicello brevi et lato; stam- 
inibus 2, antheris rotundatis; stirpis fem. spica matura quam 
folii limbus pluries breviore cylindrica apice obtusa, bracteae 
glabrae pelta rotunda centro subsessili, rhachi ut in mare; 
ovario libero rotundato, glabro, apice brevissime attenuato, 
stigmatibus 3-4 linearibus, bacca ovata apice subacuta. 
Frutex delicatus, ad arbores parvas scandens. Ramuli jun- 
iores hirtelli, in sicco fusci, adulti glabri et pallidi, teretes, spici- 
feri 1 mm. crassi, collenchyma in fasciculos discretos dispositum 
et haud libriforme, fasciculi intramedullares l-seriati, canales ly- 
sigenes nulli, cellulae fuscae magnae in cortice sparsae. Limbi 
in sicco tenuiter membranacei, minute et creberrime pellucido- 
punctulati, usque ad 8 cm. longi et 2.5 cm. lati. Petioli 
6 cm. longi. Spica fem. baccifera 15 mm. longa, 7 mm. cras- 
. $a, in vivo erecta et rubra. Ovarium basi late sessile. Bacca 
2 mm. longa. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio (Mt. Santo Tomas), 
A. D. E. Elmer, n. 8583 masc. 
Scandent shrubs upon trees and undershrubs and forming 
bushes in the oak woods at 7000 feet of mount Santo To- 
mas; male inflorescence erect; branches lax, often pendulous; 
wood pliable and tough; old bark yellowish, rather thick and 
coarsely checked; leaves spreading, dark green above, paler 
beneath, soft. (Elmer ms.) 
Piper laxirameum C. DC. sp. nov. 
Omnino glabrum, foliis modice petiolatis, oblongo-ovatis, 
basi aequilatera rotundatis apice acute acuminatis, 7-pliner- 
viis, nervo centrali a 5 mm. supra basin trifido, nervis la- 
teralibus arcuato-adscendentibus utrinque 2.a basi solutis; 
petiolo basi vaginante, stirpis fem. pedunculo petiolum fere 
triplo superante, spica pendula folii limbum fere duplo su- 
perante, bractea elliptica rhachi adnata et margine sat late 
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