784 
LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 44 
diametro. Ovarium pellucido-glandulosum. Bacca 1.5 mm. longa 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Baguio, A. D. E. Elmer, 
ns. 8875 and 5850. 
A scandent numerously branched suffrutescent species, in 
hardwood jungles of the pine region at 4000 feet, forming bushes 
upon tree trunks; leaves subcoriaceous; stem quite tough; 
fruit green when collected; inflorescence pale yellow. ‘‘Dawut?’’ 
is the Igorot name. (Elmer ms. for 8375) 
Piper obovatibracteum C. DC. sp. nov. 
Foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis basi aequilatera 
acutis apice longe et acute acuminatis utrinque villosis, 5-7- 
plinerviis nervo centrali nervos adscendentes 2 mittente quor- 
um supremus a 8 mm. supra basin solutus, nervis lateral- 
ibus adscendentibus utrinque 1-2 a basi solutis; petiolo villoso 
basi ima vaginante; stirpis masc. pedunculo tenuiter filiformi 
villoso petiolum pluries superante, spica filiformi limbi dimi- 
dium fere aequante, rhachi dense hirtella, bracteae pelta car- 
nosa in sicco nigra, obovata inferne attenuato-acuta, centro 
subsessili, staminibus 3, antheris reniformibus filamenta gracilis 
superantibus. 
Dioicum, ad frutices et arbores scandens. Ramuli villosi- 
pilis 1.5 mm. longis, spiciferi 0.5 mm. crassi, collenchyma con- 
tinuum zona interna partim libriforme, fasciculi intramedullares 
1-seriati, canales lysigenes plures quorum unus eentralis aliique 
peripherici. Limbi in sicco ut in vivo membranacei pel- 
lucido-punctulati, superi usque ad 9 cm. longi et 2.5 cm- 
lati, inferi ovato-lanceolati basi aequilatera rotundati apice 
longe et acute acuminati, 10 cm. longi. Spica fere 4 em. 
longa. Bracteae pelta 0.75 longa. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, A. D. E. Elmer, 
n. 7927. 
Twining upon shrubs and small trees, forming laxly 
branched bushes not far up from the ground, at 2500 feet of 
mount Banahao; old stems flexible, barely the thickness of 
a little finger, brown, roughened with lenticels; leaves flat, 
soft, membranous, ‘much paler beneath; inflorescence usually 
from the terminal leaf axils, greenish, very slender. (Elmer ms.) 
