786 
LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 44 
sicco subeoriacei et opaci. Petioli 8 mm., pedunculi 20 mm. 
longi. Spica 20 mm. longa, in vivo suberecta. Bracteae pelta 
0.5 mm. diametro. Baeca submatura 3 mm. longa, in sicco 
fuscescenti-flavescens, in sicco nigra. 
Mindanao, Distriet of Davao, Todaya (Mt. Apo), A. D. 
E. Elmer, n. 11174. 
In dry soil of bamboo thickets at 2500 feet near the Si- 
bulan river; stem flexible, terete, crooked, rather smooth, gray 
and brown mottled, branched, subscandent; branches green and 
divaricate; leaves descending, the sides curved upon the glau- 
eous lower surface, dull deep green above; infrutescence sub- 
erect, upon strict green peduncles; fruits shining, yellowish 
brown, subglobose or subellipsoid. ‘‘Manica-tapay’’ is the ver- 
nacular Bagobo name. (Elmer ms.) 
Piper negrosense C. DC. sp. nov. 
Foliis breviter petiolatis anguste ovato-oblongis, basi lev- 
issime inaequilatera obtusis, superne longe attenuatis et sum- 
mo apice obtusiusculis, utrinque glabris vel subtus ad nervum 
centralem parcissime hirtellis, 5-plinerviis, nervo centrali ner- 
vos 2 adscendentes opposite vel subopposite mittente quorum su- 
premus a 5-8 mm. supra basin solutus, nervo laterali ad- 
scendente utrinque a basi soluto; petiolo dense hirtello basi 
ima vaginante; stirpes masc. pedunculo hirtello petiolum fere 
triplo superante, spica florente quam folii limbus pluries breviore, 
cylindriea apice attenuata, rhachi dense hirsuta, bracteae pelta 
rotunda carnosa margine ciliolata, centro pedicellata pedicello 
hirsuto, staminibus 2 antheris rotundatis quam filamenta multo 
brevioribus; stirpis fem. pedunculo petiolum fere duplo su- 
perante, spica matura quam folii limbus pluries breviore, 
rhachi hirsuta, bractea ut in mare sed paullo minore, ovario 
libero glabro, stigmatibus 4 ovato-aeutis, bacca ovato-globosa- 
stipitem suum superante. 
Dioieum, scandens. Ramuli teretes laeves, juniores pub- 
eruli cito glabri, spiciferi 1 mm. crassi, collenchyma libri- 
forme in fasciculos discretos tenues dispositum, fasciculi intra- 
medullares 1-seriati, canalis lysigenis unieus centralis. Limbi 
in sicco membranacei minute pellucido-punctulati usque ad 11 
em. longi et ad 18 mm. lati, inferi ovato-acuminati basi aequi- 
