82 CXXIV. PIPERACE®. (J.D. Hooker.) [ Piper. 
"10. P. caninum, Blume in Verh. Batav. Genoots. xi. 214, f. 26, and 
Enum. Pl. Jav. fasc, 1. 72; hirsute pubescent or glabrate, branches slender 
terete, leaves petioled membranous ovate ovate-cordate or -lanceolate 
acuminate rarely elliptic-lanceolate 3-5-nerved towards the base, male 
spikes slender, fruiting slender, fruit very small, pedicel sometimes vety 
short. Cas. DC. in Proar. xvi. 1. 341. P. Cubeba, Vahl Enum. i. 332; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 159; Ed. Carey & Wall. i. 161; Wall. Cat. 6645; Nees 
Plant. Med. t.°22. Cubeba canina, Mig. Comm. Phyt. 33, t. 3;- Syst. 
Pip. 293, and Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 449, and in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. fase. 
v. 137. 
TENASSERIM (or Andaman Islands ?), Helfer. Maracca, Griffith, Maingay. 
PenanG, Wallich.—DisTRiB. Malay Islands. 
A rambling climber, more or less hirsute with flaccid hairs, rarely quite glabrous. 
Leaves 2-4 by 1}-2 in., usually broadest at the base which is rarely unequal-sided, 
nerves slender ; petiole 1-1 in., slender. Male spikes 2-3 in.; bracts adnate by a 
broad base, stamens 2, anther-cells distinct. Fruiting spike 4-1} in. ; peduncle 
slender; bracts peltate, villous. Fruit 2 in. diam., pedicel variable in lengtb, always 
shorter than the fruit. | 
P. caninum proper; branches glabrate, except the younger, leaves glabrous above, 
finely pubescent beneath. 
Var. glabra; leaves quite glabrous, — Tenasserim (or Andaman Islands), Helfer. 
Var. lanceolata; leaves elliptic-lanceolate finely acuminate very sparsely hairy 
beneath, pedicel of fruit very short. P. Lonchites, Wall. Cat. 6644 B, in part (the 
centre plant of the four on the sheet). Penang, Wallich.—Wallich tickets this 
P. lanceolatum, Rowxb., but Roxburgh’s plant of that name is, I think, clearly 
P. miniatum. ` 
Var. angustifolia, Miq. mss.; leaves smaller linear-lanceolate 2-24 by 4-3 in. 
nearly glabrous.— Malacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1333/4).—' This appears the same 
as Zollinger’s No. 698 f. from Java, named Cubeba canina, var. angustifolia, Miq. 
Mant. Pip. 
Var. lanata ; branches and leaves beneath hirsute. P. lanatum, Roxb, Fl. Ind, 
i. 159; Ed. Carey § Wall. i. 161; Wall. Cat. 6647 ; Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1s 
341. P. Lonchites, Wall. Cat. 6644 A, in part. P. Cubeba, Wall. Cat. 6645 (not 
of Linn. f.. P. javanicum, Cas. DC. l.c. 343. Cubeba lanata, Mig. Syst. Pip. 
298, and Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2.450. C. Lowong var. quintuplinervis, Miq. l. c. 298.— 
Penang, Wallich. 
Var. ? Thwaitesii ; branches glabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate glabrous or sparsely 
pubescent beneath, fruiting spikes nearly glabrous, fruit very shortly pedicelled. 
P. arcuatum, Thwaites Enum. 293, in part (not of Blume). P. arborescens, Thwaites 
l. c. (not of Rozb.). P. Thwaitesii, Cas. DC. lL. c. 357. P.bantamense, Cas. DC. 
l. c. 362 (the Ceylon plant only).—Ceylon, Thwaites (C. P. 85 in part, and 2178). 
11. P. muricatum, Blume in Verh. Batav. Nat. Genoots. xi. 219, f. 1, 
and Enum. Pl. Jav. fase. i. 68; branches stout hirsute or glabrate, leaves 
large membranous elliptic or elliptic-oblong acuminate 7-9-nerved sparsely 
hairy above tomentose beneath, female spike 5-6 in. stoutly pedicelle 
tomentose, rachis stout, bracts peltate, fruit sessile and pedicelled. Miquel 
Syst. Pip. 326 ; Ill. Pip. 55, t. 55, in Hook. Lond. Journ, Bot, iv. 438, aud 
Fi. Ind. Bat. i. 2, 2454; Cas. DC. in Prodr. xv. 1.341. P. birmanicum 
B. macrostachyum, Cus. DO. l. c. 338. 
pop Griffith.—DisrTRIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, 
tem evidently stout and soft; branches as thick as a goose-quill, roughly hairy: 
Leaves 6-9 by 31-6 in., base rounded or subcordate rarely E bacuie, equal or equal 
petiole 4-3 in. Spike 1-2-sexual, erect or drooping ; peduncle 4 in.; bracts labrous 
above, subsessile, orbicular. Fruit unripe on thick pedicels, many imperfect, ce: 
spedire “ Seed, subglobose,” Miquel.—The leaves are most variable 
