OCTOBER 31, 1910] PHILIPPINE PIPERACEAE 789 
Piper umbellatum glabrum [B] C. DC. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. XVI; 494. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya (Mt. Apo), A. D. 
E. Elmer, n. 10862. 
Solitary or in clusters of very fertile soil of herbaceous 
thickets in damp places at 3000 feet; stems ascending, oc- 
casionally branched, nodulose every 10 inches, 1 inch thick 
yellowish green, lenticelled, 3 to 7 feet high; leaves scattered 
along the upper portion of the stems, limp, the basal por- 
tion deeply sunken on the upper side, the margins lopping 
or wavy, beneath much paler green; petioles whitish green, 
subterete, grooved on the upper side toward the base; inflo- 
rescenee axillary, upon strict light green terete peduncles and 
pedicels, when old turning grayish green. "''Cuyok" is the 
Bagobo name. (Elmer ms.) 
