Piper.] CXXIV. PIPERACEEK. (J. D. Hooker.) 81 
Sect. II. Cubeba. Spikes solitary ; flowers dioscious ; bracts of female 
spikes peltate. Fruit contracted at the base into a pedicel, 
* Quite glabrous (see also P. caninum var. glabra). 
„ô. P. ribesioides, Wall. Pl As. Rar. i. 79, t. 9, and Cat. 6637; 
quite glabrous, very robust, leaves 8-12 in. very coriaceous linear- or ovate- 
oblong acuminate base deeply cordate 5-9-nerved at the very base 3-nerved 
higher up, petiole 1-2 in., fruiting spike short stout, pedicel glabrous as 
long as the globose apiculate fruit. Cas. DC. in Prodr. 942. Cubeba 
Wallichii, Mig. Syst. Pip. 289, and Ill. Pip. 47, t. 46, 47. 
TENASSERIM, Helfer, Falconer, PENANG and SINGAPORE, Wallich, Maingay, 
BURMA; at Chappedong, Wallich. ` 
_A very stout climber; branches pale, as thick as a goose-quill, deeply furrowed 
when dry. Leaves variable, sometimes 5 in. broad, basal sinus 1-1} in. deep, lobes 
rounded equal or not; nerves very strong’ beneath, nervules slender ; petiole very 
stout ; young leaves small, lanceolate, subsagittately cordate. Spikes 1-3 in.; bracts 
"rk aitriaceous, rachis of spike stout rigid; bracteoles together semilunar, Fruit 
In, diam, . 
7. P. sumatranum, Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 343; quite glabrous, 
very robust, leaves 8-19 in. very coriaceous oblong or linear-oblong acumi- 
nate 5-7-nerved at the very shortly cordate base and 3-nerved higher up, 
petiole 1-13 in., fruiting spike 2-3 in. very stout, pedicel glabrous as long 
a8 the globose apiculate fruit is broad. Cubeba sumatrana, Mig. Comm. 
Phyt. 42, t. 5a; Syst. Pip. 290, and in Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 448, and Suppl. 
186. P. pedicellosum, Wall. Cat. 6646 B ?. 
TENASSERIM and ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Helfer. PzNANG, Wallich, SINGAPORE, 
qwgay.—DisTRIB. Sumatra. . 
Very closely allied to P. ribesioides, and perhaps only a state of that plant, which 
the fruit entirely resembles, but the leaves are narrower, more contracted at the base, 
with a very small short sinus. The male flowers are unknown in both. Possibly 
they are both large forms of P: Cubeba, L. fil. ` 
8. P. pedicellosum, Wall. Cat. 6646 A; quite glabrous, robust, 
leaves 2-4 in. very coriaceous elliptic or ovate-cordate obtuse 5-7-nerved 
pear the base, petiole 44 in., fruiting spikes 1-1} in. very stout, pedicel 
race as long as the subovoid obtuse fruit. Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 343. 
ubeba Neesii, Mig. Syst. Pip. 292, and Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. 2. 449. 
SINGAPORE, Wallich . 
is resembles "P. Cubeba, Linn. f, but has hoary pedicels of the fruit. The 
Smaller leaves, short petiole, and fruit, distinguish it from P, ribesioides & 
sumatranum, , l 
9. P. Griffithii, Cas. DC. in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1866, 163, and in 
Prod», xvi. 1. 343; quite glabrous, branches slender, leaves thinly coria- 
fous ovate or elliptic 3-5-nerved at the base and 3-nerved higher up, 
fruit’ Spikes 6-8 in., pedicels slender longer than the very small globose 
Assam, Masters Gri, 
3 y riffith. i 
rounded 57 terete or oi eurely furrowed when dry. Leaves 4-6 Pn p? pate 
i ed or subacute; nerves very slender, nervales faint; petiole ł-} in. enale 
yikes slender; bracts obscure in fruit, cup-shaped, adnate to the glabrous rachis, 
racteoles short, Fruits numerous, globose, 4 in. diam. 
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