4 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. Jl 



medio carnosa et umbonata, margine pedicelloque angusto dense et 

 sat longe hirsutis, antheris rotundatis, ovario libero glabro. 



Frutex. Ramuli spiciferi i mm. crassi, collenchyma in fascicules 

 discretos dispositum et zona interna libriforme, fasciculi intramedul- 

 lares i-seriati, canalis lysigenus nullus. Limbi in sicco membranacei 

 creberrime pellucido-punctulati obscure virescentes, superi 10.4 cm. 

 longi et usque ad 4.5 cm. lati, subsequentes basi aequilateri usque ad 

 15 cm. longi et 5.7 cm. lati. Petioli superi usque ad limbi latus longius 

 circiter 7 mm., inter limbi latera paullulo liltra i mm. longi. Spica 

 adhuc juvenilis 1.7 cm. longa, 2 mm. crassa in sicco canescens. 

 Stamina 3. 



Panama : Humid forest of Cuesta de las Palmas, southern slope 

 of Cerro de la Horqueta, Chiriqui, alt. 1,700-2,100 m., H. Pittier 



3225. 



PIPER TABOGANUM C. DC, n. sp. 



Ramulis villosulis ; foliis modice petiolatis, limbo elliptico-oblongo 

 basi inaequilatera altero latere rotundato altero subrotundato sub- 

 acutove apice acute attenuate utrinque hirtello, nervo central! nervos 

 altero latere 5 altero 6 mittente quorum supremus a fere 6 cm. supra 

 basin solutis, superi 5 adscendentes, infimus brevissimus subadscen- 

 dens arcuatus, petiolo dense hirtello paullo ultra basin vaginante ; 

 pedunculo parce hirtello petiolum fere aequante, spica matura quam 

 limbus paullo breviore apice subacuta, rhachi hirsuta, bracteae pelta 

 triangulari margine pedicelloque dense hirsutis, ovario libero ovato 

 puberulo, bacca obpyramidato-trigona glabra, stigmatibus minutis. 



Ramuli spiciferi usque ad 2 mm. crassi in sicco nigrescentes, col- 

 lenchyma continuum baud libriforme, fasciculi intrameduUares 

 i-seriati, canalis lysigenus nullus. Limbi in sicco membranacei 

 minute pellucido-punctulati usque ad 11. 5 cm. longi et 3.2, cm. lati. 

 Petioli usque ad limbi latus longius 7 mm. inter limbi latera 4 mm. 

 longi. Pedunculi 12 mm. longi. Spicae usque ad 9 cm. longae et 

 2 mm. crassae, in sicco nigrae, stamina 3 basi ima baccae adnata, 

 antherae in specimine delapsae. 



Panama : Taboga Island, Gulf of Panama, alt. 0-250 m., 

 H. Pittier 3529. 



PIPER PERSUBULATUM C. DC, n. sp. 



Ramulis villosis ; foliis breviter petiolatis, limbo ovato-oblongo 

 basi aequilatera utrinque subrotundato apice longissime subulato, 

 utrinque et subtus densius villoso, nervo centrali nervos utrinque 7 

 mittente quorum infimi 2 subadscendentes quam alii adscendentes 



