OCTOBER 31, 1910] PHILIPPINE PIPERACEAE 181 
in mare continuum, in femina in fasciculos discretos dis- 
positum, fasciculi intramedullares 1-seriati, canalis lysigenis 
unieus centralis. Limbi in sicco membranacei, minutissime 
pellucido-punctulati, usque ad 13 cm. longi et 5.5 cm lati. 
Petioli usque ad limbi latus longius 7 mm., inter limbi 
latera 2 mm. longi. Pedunculi 18 mm. longi. Spica fem. 
matura in vivo rubra, in sicco rubiginosa 20 mm. longa, 
8 mm. crassa. Bracteae pelta fere 0.75 mm. diametro. Stigmata 
in apice ovarii sessilia. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, A. D. E. Elmer, ns. 
8042 masc. and 7626” fem. 
Local but forming copses in damp forests at 3500 feet 
of mount Banahao; low shrubs about 3 feet high but more 
widely spreading; stems and branches comparatively few, soft, 
with large nodes; green leaves submembranous, dark green 
above, much lighter underneath; inflorescence erect, the unde- 
veloped green portion deflexed. (Elmer ms. for n. 8042) 
Piper parcirameum C. DC. sp. nov. 
Foliis breviter petiolatis, elliptico-oblongis basi inaequila- 
latera utrinque acutis apice acute et sat longe acuminatis, su- 
pra glabris subtus ad nervos nervulosque hirtellis, penniner- 
viis nervo centrali usque ad 0.5 longitudinis suae nervos ad- 
scendentes alternos utrinque 4 mittente; petiolo glabro basi 
vaginante; stirpis fem. peduneulo glabro petiolum aequante, 
spica quam folii limbus pluries breviore, cylindrica, rhachi hir- 
suta, bracteae pelta glabra subelliptica, centro sat longe ped- 
iceellata pedicello sat longe villoso; bacca globosa apice mu- 
cronulata, stigmatibus 3 minutis. 
Dioieum. Suffrutex 1-3 ped. altus, parce ramosus ramulis 
suberectis. Caulis glaber, inferne saepe repens et e nodis ra- 
dicans, superne circiter 3 mm. crassus; collenchyma conti- 
nuum et haud libriforme, cellulis fuscis intermixtum, fasciculi 
intramedullares 1-seriati, canalis lysigenis unicus centralis, 
cellulae sclerosae interfasciculares cum phloemate  fascie- 
ulorum periphericorum continuae. Limbi in vivo subcoriacei 
in sicco membranacei, minute pellucido-punetulati et utrinque 
punctulis atrorubescentibus conspersi, usque ad 19 cm. longi 
et fere ad 6 em. lati, nervuli in vivo subtus albicantes. Pe- 
