Ocrozer 31, 1910] PHILIPPINE PIPERACEAE 785 
Piper interrumptum multiplinervum C. DC. var. nov. 
Scandens, limbis 10.5 cm. longis 4.5 em. latis in sicco 
pellucido-punctulatis, 5-plinerviis nervo centrali a 4 mm. su- 
pra basin trifido, 10-11 em. longis, 4-6 cm. latis, pedunculo 
petiolum duplo superante, 7 cm. longo, rhachi in mare glabra 
in femina parce pilosa, staminibus 3 antheris reniformibus, stig- 
matibus 4, ovato-acutis, bacca globosa. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, 4. D. E. 
Elmer, n. 6855. 
Piper davaoense C. DC. in Perkins? Frag. Fl. Philip. 154. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya (Mt. Apo), Elmer, 
n. 11065. 
In dry woods, along a ridge of the Baracatan creek at 
1750 feet; scandent upon small tree trunks and forming loose 
hanging masses; inflorescence dark green, hanging in a twisting 
and curving manner. ‘‘Manika-ta-poe’’ is the Bagobo name. 
(Elmer ms.) 
Piper apoanum C. DC. sp. nov. 
Foliis breviter petiolatis, ovato-oblongis, basi aequilatera 
rotundatis cordulatisve, apice obtusiuscule acuminatis utrinque 
glabris, 5-plinerviis, nervo centrali 1 cm. supra basin trifido, 
nervo laterali adscendente utrinque a basi soluto; petiolo supra 
in margine minute puberulo, fere usque ad medium vaginante; 
stirpis fem. pedunculo glabro tenui quam petiolus multo long- 
iore, spica quam folii limbus pluries breviore, rhachi minu- 
tissime puberula; bracteae glabrae pelta rotunda, carnosa, centro 
brevissime pedicellata; bacca libera glandulis conspersa sub- 
globosa stipitem suum paullo superante. 
Dioicum, in solo sicco inter bambusas subscandens. Ra- 
muli glabri, teretes, laeves, spiciferi 1 mm. crassi, collenchyma 
libriforme in fasciculos diseretos tenues dispositum, fasciculi 
intramedullares 1-seriati, canalis lysigenis unicus centralis. 
Limbi in sicco membranacei, in vivo subtus glaucescentes, su- 
peri usque ad 10 cm. longi et 32 mm. lati, inferi ovato- 
oblongi basi cordati, usque ad 14 em. longi et 5 cm. lati in 
