Piper carrilloanum C.Dc.

A shrub, 2-4 m. tall, glabrous except the puberulous nerves on the lower surface; upper internodes moderately slender and elongated; leaves subequilaterally ovate, apex rather long-acuminate, base subtruncate to moderately deeply cordate with open sinus, the blade margin commonly meeting over the petiole, rather small and elongate, 6-8 cm. wide X 15 cm. long or becoming more rounded and as much as 25 X 35 cm., pinnately nerved to about the middle, 7-9 nerves on each side, the lowermost 3-5 from near the base, salient beneath, with prominent cross-connecting and anastomosing nervules, very finely nervulose by transmitted light,