` Piper.] CXXIV. PIPERACER, (J. D. Hooker.) 85 
17. P. Betle, Linn. Sp. Pl. 28; quite glabrous, or with the petioles 
puberulous, stem and branches stout climbing compressed when dry, leaves 
large coriaceous petioled obliquely ovate-oblong or rounded ovate-cordate 
5-7-nerved, base often unequal, petiole 4-14 in., male spikes 3-6 in., female 
long-peduncled, fruiting stout 1-5 in. pendulous. Hunter in As. Res. ix. 
390; Vahl Enum. i. 398; Rowb. Fl. Ind. i. 158, and Ed. Carey & Wail. i. 
166; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 89; Wall. Cat. 6652 A; Bot. Mag. 
t. 3182; Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 359; Burm. Fl. Ind. 14, and Fl. Zeyl. 
t. 82, f£. 2. P. Siriboa, Linn. Sp. Pl. 29; Hunter l. c. 391; Vahl l. c. 332. 
P. Betle var. Siriboa, Cas. DC. 1. c. P. peepuloides, Wall. Cat. 6650 C. 
P. Chavya, Ham.; Cas. DC. l.c. Chavica Betle, Mig. Syst. Pip. 224, and 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 439; Wight Ic. t. 9996. C. Siriboa, Mig. l. c. 228, in 
- Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 433, and in Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 1. 438; Thwaites 
Enum. 999. ©. Chuvya, Mig. Syst. Pip. 267, and Ill. Pip, 42, t. 39.— 
Rheede Hort. Mal. vii. 29, t. 15. 
Cultivated in the. hotter and damper parts of INDIA and CEYLON, and im the 
Malay Islands. . . 
Apparently a larger and stouter plant than the other species of this section, with 
more coriaceous usually broadly ovate leaves, sometimes 4-5 in. diam. ; spikes longer 
and longer-peduncled; fruit 4-3 in diam., very fleshy and often confluent into a 
cylindric fleshy red mass. P. Chuvya and Siriboa are, I suppose, large-leaved cultivated 
forms; the latter is described as having pubescent young leaves, which I do not ob- 
Serve, though the petioles are sometimes, but not always, puberulous. 
18. P. miniatum, Blume in Verh. Bat. Genoots. xi. 166, and Enum. 
Pl. Jav. fasc. i. 65; quite glabrous, branches rigid terete, nodes much 
swollen, leaves very shortly petioled large coriaceous elliptic-oblong or -lan- 
ceolate caudate-acuminate 5-nerved from the very base, spikes very long 
erect most dense-fld., fruit very minute. Cas. DO. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 354. 
; auriculatum, Blume 1l.c. 171 and 66. P. glandulosum, Opiz in Pres! 
Rel. Henk.158, P. arborescens, Wall. Cat. 6648 A. P. lanceolatum, Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. i. 159. P. Lonchites, Wall. Cat. 6644 A, the two upper specimens 
only. P.'moluccanum, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i.119. Chavica miniata, wees 
g chya & ? lanceolata, Mig. Syst. Pip. 234 and 236, IU. Pip. 32, 33, t. 28; 
29, and FU. Ind. Bat. i. 9. 440, PC. lanceolata, Mig. Syst. Pip. 264, an 
Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 1. 445. Cubeba macrostachya, Mig. Comm. Phyt. 38. 
Matacoa, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 1327), SINGAPORE, Lobb. PENANG, Wallich. 
—Disrriz, Java, Banda, Philippines. 14-3} in 
, "Branches as thick asa crow-quill, very hard and smooth. Leaves 3-7 by 1}-3} i " 
ngid, shining above, base nearly equal, nerves stout, nervules transverse ; petiole 
s-iin. Spikes most dense-fld. of any Indian species; fruiting 4-3 in. diam., taper 
ing from the base ; bracts minute, peltate, hairy; stamens 3. Fruit ay in. ellipsoid ; 
stigmas 3.— Miquel describes a Sumatran variety with hairy shoots and nerves beneath. 
His C. lanceolata is a very doubtful plant. 
19. P. bæhmeriæfolium, Wall. Cat. 6654 A; tall, quite glabrous, 
branches subterete when dry, often warted, leaves-membranous very shortly 
Petioled or the upper sessile obliquely oblong or linear-oblong acuminate 
qan narrowed at the very unequal almost auricled base 5-7-nerved, T than 
‘stant, male and female spikes 3-6 in., peduncles slender much longer Mn 
e petioles. Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1.948. Chavica boehmeriofolia, Mag. 
» Pip. 265, and. Ill. Pip. 41, t. 37. DJE Buit 
gor iCal EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Sikkim, ascending to 5090 ft., J. D. H. Bhotan, 
Teeth. ASSAM, SILHET and the Kasia Mrs. Wallich, &e. Prev, Kurz. 
SERIM, Parish.—DISTRIB. Ava. . " 
Branches not stout, rather ‘soft, Leaves very variable, in the typical form 
