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20876,  Prewn® mevabrantces Merr, Climbing lefty 
trees in dense Voodp at 4600 feet, south of mowt Cel*len, 
eteme terete, 3 inches thick; Wood porous, seft, odorless 
and tasteless, *hitieh on the exterior, light yelio® 
to¥eré the center; bark thick, yeligfigh gray, thinly 
checked, With brown veesels; Wige soft, smooth, yelig- 
ish: branches @reoping “nd forming hanging masses: Leaves 
subcori@ceous, f1"t, light green, epre@ding horizenteliy; 
duflerescence erect, light green except Sap the pale 
white corelis, filaments and pistil (the @nthers bremn) 
With & faint rather unples%eant eder; "“Negge,* Todays, 
10879, Gastenepsie jevanies a, BD. A G feot 
high tree in dense forests at 4900 feet, south of wount 
Galelen; stem 2 feet.thick, branched @beve the middie, 
the branches suberest, forming ® flat tepped cr@in; 
bark brevn lenticelled; s®p Wood Whitieh, the inner br@n 
and With @ dietinet Woody odor, hard, heavy, t%stelesa; 
Wigs not many, Secending; letvee mostly descending, 
etrongly conduplicate on the upper deep green surfeoe, 
beneath rusty red; subcoriaceous; inflorescence rigid, - 
atriet, ereet or S@ecending, yell@ish green, sparingly 
brandhed; "“Cah@u-te-Jlayan." The nute of thie species 
ave L@&ge end are etten by the bosobos, Shen they have 
no rice er by riee crop feilure they g*ther these *a 
substitute;  Tedaya, Hey, 1909, 
16086, Giesue @ngustifolia Kexb, Upon lofty 
tope ef dense humid Woode 8% 4000 feet south of mount 
Gelalen; stems and branches gray, roughly lenticelied, 
the former 1 inch thiek and fiattened, 11 flexible: 
Wood soft, odorless Gnd tasteless, Phitish, porous; 
le@veg subcori®eeous, lighter beneath, descending, cen« 
@uplieSte en the upper side 8nd recurved: infruteseense 
axillary, ateenich except the giobvese hard red fruits. 
*Naiion,* . Ted@yS, Mey, 1909, . 
10001. Piper merrittii (b) ¢. DO. nm, form, — 
Bpiphytic upen trees in moist dense Woods &t 4000 feet, 
eeuth of mount Calelen; etems flexible, 1/2 inch thick, 
ereyieh White, eamooth; the branches Widely spre®ding 
and forming interi®ced masses, Wigs green, bai? dreep- 
ing; Letvee limp Slee éreoping, pSier green benesth; 
infrutescence le®f opposed, penduleus, upon green 
etalke; fruite ellipsoid, shiny, vrernieh red; "Mani kea- 
tepey." Tedaya, May, 1909, 
10662, Plates apoense fim,, a, sp, 4 & foot 
high tree, ith *® feot and % half thiek bole, in dense 
Woods @t 4000 feet, south of mount Colel@n; Wood edor= . 
less 8nd tasteless, White snd soft throughout, very light, 
eagily cutting: bark mettled, smeethi8h; liabe mostly 
t@ard the top, Secendingly epresding; branchlets rather 
slender erooked, green; leaves coritceous, ehSlidiy 
conduplieate on the upper dark green surface, bene®th 
yell@ien so; infrutescence “xill“ry; pam peduncles 
erevnieh, terete; fruite egg-shaped 1 1/2 ineh long, 3/ 
iuch thick nesr the base, smooth, yell@ish red; 
".atieo,” Tedaya, May, 1909, ; 
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