Ocroser 31, 1910] PHILIPPINE PIPERACEAE 787 
latera cordati usque ad 7 cm. longi et ad 37 mm. lati. 
Petioli superi usque ad limbi latus longius 5 mm., inter 
limbi latera vix 1 mm. longi. Pedunculi in mare 20 mm. 
in femina 12 mm. longi. Spica masc. 20 mm. longa, 2 mm. 
crassa, fem. circiter 15 mm. longa.  Bracteae pelta in 
mare 1.5 mm. in fem. 1 mm. diametro. Bacca 5 mm. 
longa, 4 mm. crassa. 
Negros, Province of Negros Oriental, Dumaguete (Cuernos 
Mts.), A. D. E. Elmer, n. 9482 masc. 
A delicate numerously branched climber upon low trees 
and sprawling over boulders in the hemp region at the 3000 
feet; stems smooth, flexible, covered with brown bark, 0.33 
inch thick; ultimate branches very thin, green, flexible; in- 
florescence terminal and subterminal, leaf opposed, erect, 1 
inch long, pale creamy white; leaves flat, gradually recurved, 
much paler beneath, comparatively thin. ‘‘Lawingan-ihalas’’ 
is the local Visayan name. (Elmer ms.) 
Piper marivelesanum C. DC. in Perkins? Frag. Fl. Philip. 155. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, Elmer, n. 8308. 
Piper caninum latibracteum C. DC. var. nov. 
Ramulis dense villosis, late ovatis basi aequilatera rotun- 
datis apice longe et acute acuminatis, supra parce subtus den- 
sius pilosis, 7-plinerviis, 8.5 em. longis 5 cm. latis, bracteae 
glabrae pelta rotunda 1.5 mm.. diametro, 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Lucban, A. D. E. Elmer, 
ns. 7627 and 7990. Province of Benguet, Baguio, A. D. E. 
Elmer, n. 8844. 
Seandent upon shrubs and forming more or less tangled 
bushes; stems soft, greenish, tough, the size of the small 
finger; leaves submembranous, flat, dull but darker green above; 
infrutescence axillary, spieate, hard and when collected reddish 
brown, 2 to 4 inches long, the spikes usually curved and 
opposite the leaves. On stream banks at Sablan and was called 
'"Detid" by the native — (Elmer, ms. for n. iind 
