Piper.] | CXXIV. PIPERACEA, (J. D. Hooker.) 83 
Var. glabrata 3. branches glabrous below, above hispid, as are the petioles peduncles 
and leaf-nerves beneath. —Mishmi Hills in Upper Assam, Griffith. 
Sect. III. €havica. Spikes solitary; flowers dicecious, Bracts orbi- 
anlat, peltate. Fruit very small, in dense cylindric rarely globose spikes, 
sessile. 
* Fruiting spikes much longer than broad. Stigma sessile. 
+ Leaves quite glabrous (see also 23. Hapnium) sometimes slightly 
pubescent in P. sylvaticum. 
12. P. longum, Linn. Sp. Pl. 29; glabrous, branches soft angular 
and grooved when dry, lower leaves long-petioled ovate-cordate upper nar- 
rower oblong-cordate sessile amplexicaul, fruiting spikes short suberect. 
Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 355; Vahl Enum. i. 334; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 156, 
and Ed. Carey & Wall. i. 156; Gra. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 199; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 84; Wall. Cat. 6640; Nees Med. Bot. t. 23; Woodv. Med. 
Bot. iv. t. 247; Bentl & Trim. Med. Pl. iii. t. 244. P. sarmentosum, Wail. 
Cat. 6641. P. latifolium, Hunter in As. Research. ix. 390. Chavica Rox- 
burghii, Mig. Syst. Pip. 239, Ill. Pip. 35, t. 30, and FU. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 440; 
Hayne Arnz. Gewachs. xiv. t. 20; Wight Ir. t. 1928. C. sarmentosa, Miq. 
in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 433, v. 531 (not of Syst. Pip.?).—Rheede . 
Hort. Mal. vii. 27, t. 14. 
Hotter provinces of India, from East NEPAL to AssaM, the Knasta Mrs. and 
BENGAL, westward to BOMBAY, and southward to TRAVANCORE, CEYLON and 
4L4CCA, wild or cultivated.— DISTRIB. Malay Islands. . . 
Stems creeping below ; ** young shoots downy, branches prostrate or creeping with 
broad leaves, flowering shoots erect," Rowb. Lower leaves 2-3 in., often rounded- 
ovate, acuminate, 7-nerved, sinus rounded but narrow, basal lobes equal; petiole 
-Ə M. upper leaves much narrower, with often unequal basal lobes. Made spikes 
1-3 in. ; female 1-3 in. Fruit about jj in. diam.— The Malabar plant referred to 
, Sarmentosum by Miquel (Lond. Journ. Bot. l. c.), and a Malacca one so named by 
™, seem to me undistinguishable from P. longum, and I doubt sarmentosum being 
a distinct species. Of the Mergui P. sarmentosum (Fl. Ind. Bat.) I have seen no 
Specimens, Wallich's P. sarmentosum (No. 6641) has broader upper leaves, and is 
ee the true plant. He is the authority for referring Hunter's P. latifolium 
13. P. peepuloides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 159, and Ed. Carey § Wall. i. 
158 ; glabrous, branches slender rigid terete often warted, leaves membra- 
nous shortly petioled very uniform oblong linear- or ovate-oblong caudate- 
acuminate, base rounded 3-5-nerved nearly to the tip, fruit minute. Wal. 
Cat. 6650 A. p. 'braehystachyum, Wall. Cat. 6656, in part. Chavica 
Peepuloides, Miq. Syst. Pip. 237; Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 389, C. 
feslana, Mig, 7. c, 949, 
TRoprcan Him . fepal, Wallich, to Bhotan, Griffith. 
"ol Py the KHASEA s, pond. ascending to 3000 ft. CHITTAGONG, 
: d T. T. 
A slender bush, climbi ith free spreading slender branches. Leaves 
2- by 1-2 in., variable i aenn ita fre narrowed to a minutely cordate base ; . 
petiole of upper leaves $-+4 in., of lower rarely } in. Male spikes slender, 2-3 in, 
Clothed with peltate bracts; stamens 2-4; female 4-3 in., cylindric, longer than their 
l "a oim Fruit |, in. diam.—The branches are frequently warted as in P. brachy- 
“yum, to which this is most closely allied. 
uM P. Chaba, Hunter in As. Research. ix. 391 (n 
S'abrous, stem stout climbing and rooting, leaves very s 
ASSAM, 
ot of Blume); quite 
hort-petioled rather 
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