448 
DE CANDOLLE. 
punctulati, usque ad 12 cm longi et 5.5 cm lati. Petioli 7 mm, pedunculi 
12 mm longi. Spica florens 1 cm tonga et 5 mm crassa.. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Todaya, Copeland 1298, altitude about 1,200 m, 
April. 
71. Piper interruptum Opiz in Reliq. Haenk. 1 (1828) 157. 
P. Cumingianum Miq. Syst. Pip. (1843) 329; C. DC. Prodr. 1 6 1 (1869) 366, 
emend. 
Foliis modice petiolatis, elliptico-lanceolatis basi leviter inaequilatera 
acutis, apice acute acumiiiatis, utrinque glabris, 5-nerviis; petiolo glabro 
basi vaginante; stirpis n13.sc. pedunculo glabro petiolum fere aequante, 
spica adulta quam f olii limbus longiore, rhaclii • parce pilosa, bractea 
longe adnata glabra oblonga utrinque obtusa, staminibus 3, filamento 
cum anthera aequilato et ea paullo longiore; stirpis fern, pedunculo 
glabro adulto petiolum fere triplo superante, spica folii limbum super- 
ante, rhachi et bractea ut in mare, ovario libero glabro, stigmatibus 3, 
obtusis, bacca libera ovata, glabra! 
Dioicum, scandens. Eamuli glabri laeves, spiciferi 1.5 mm crassi, 
collenchyma in fasciculos discretos a latere productos dispositum et zona 
interna libriforme, fasciculi intramedullares 1-seriati, canalis lysigenis 
unicus centralis. Limbi in sicco- firmuto-membranacei opaci, 7-9.5 cm 
longi, 4-6 cm lati. Petioli 1-1.5 cm longi. Spicae masc. 14 cm longae, 
1 mm crassae, fern, paullo brevior. 
Luzon, Province of Sorsogon, Sorsogon, Haenke: Province of Ilocos Norte, 
Cuming 1190, masc.: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Williams 16, October. 
Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Cuming 1624, fem.: District of Davao, Malita, 
Copeland 676, March. 
Forma b. 
Alte scandens, limbis usque ad 12 cm longis et 5.5 cm latis, pedunculis 
35 mm longis. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Lamao River, Whitford 1040, fem., altitude about 
100 m, June. 
p. herbaceum C. DC. var. nov. 
Herba 50 cm alta, limbis usque ad 10.5 cm longis et 5 cm latis, baccis 
ellipticis, 4 mm longis, inferis in specimine viso brevissime stipitatis, 
.stigmatibus 3 oblongis apice acutis. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Merrill 3182, fem., rare, on 
exposed ridges at an altitude of about 1,150 m, October. 
7 . multiplinerve C. DC. var. nov. 
Scandens, limbis 10.5 cm longis, 4.5 cm latis, in sicco pellucido-punc- 
tulatis, 5-plinerviis nervo centrali a 4 mm supra basin trifido, 10-11 cm 
longis, 4-6 cm latis, pedunculo petiolum duplo superante, 7 mm longo, 
