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68 © CXXIV. PIPERACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Piper. 
fiddle-shaped acumihate 7:nerved at the rounded or cordate often unequal 
base, peduncle short, fruiting spikes short cylindric, style elongate. Cas. 
DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 377; Mig. Syst. Pip. 284, and Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 447. 
P. stylosum, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat.i.fase.5, 139; Cas. DC. l c. 
344. P. birmanicum, Cas. DC. l. c. 338, excl. var. B. Rhyncholepis ? Rox- 
burghii, Mig. Syst. Pip. 284, and Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 447. 
Maracca, Griffith, SINGAPORE, Maingay—DistRis. Sumatra. — i 
Stem 18 in. from a creeping stock, rusty-tomentose, suberect, dichotomons y 
branched, lower nodes thickened. Leaves 5-7 by 2-4 in., base usually narrowed, 
glabrous or puberulous above, nerves slender ; petiole stout, ¢-+ in. Male spikes me 
seen. Fruiting spikes 4-1 in. long; peduncle very short; bracts orbicular. Fru 
globose, 4-3 in. diam. ; style very variable in length, as long as the fruit or shorter.— 
1 have not seen authentic specimens of Roxburgh's P. rostratum, but there seems no 
reason to doubt that Miquel's P. stylosum is the same. 
27. P. penangense, Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 353; erect, quite 
glabrous, branches terete, leaves petioled membranous oblong or ovate-lan- 
ceolate caudate-acuminate 5-nerved, base acute or subacute, peduncle 
equalling the very short fruiting-spike, style elongate. P. Lonchites, Wall. 
Cat. 6644 B, in Herb. Hook. only. Chavica penangensis, Mig. Syst. Pip. 
279, and ZU. Pip. 45, t. 44 (not Mig. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot.). 
PENANG, Wallich. SINGAPORE? Lobb. - 
A shrub; branches hard, smooth. Leaves 3-5 by 13-2 in., nerves slender, alter- 
nate, bases rather distant; petiole l-y in, Female spikes } in. or less, peduncle 
slender; bracts peltate. Fruits few },-} in. diam. globose, styles slender equalling 
their diameter.—Miquel cites Wall. Cat. 6642 B for this, no doubt a mistake for 
6644 B, which, however, he must have taken from the Hookerian Herbarium, 8$ 
there is no specimen at all of this species in the Liunzan Society’s, where 6642 B 
is P. attenuatum. 
Sect. IV. Pseudochavica. Spikes solitary; flowers diccious. 
Fruits forming a loose interrupted spike, usually much larger than in Sect. 
Chavica ; fruits and stigmas sessile. Bracts peltate, orbicular, margins 
free all round. 
28. P. Hamiltonii, Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 359, in part ; quite 
glabrous, shrubby, branches finely striate, leaves petioled coriaceous elliptic 
or almost rounded obtuse or subacute 5-7-nerved from above the base 
bracts orbicular ciliate, fruiting spikes slender, fruit ovoid. P. plantagineum, 
Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6659 A, B in part. P. Betle, Wall. Cat. 6652 B, 
the two left-hand specimens only; Cas. DC. l. c. p. 359, in part; Mig. Syst. 
Pip. 229, in part. 
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Sikkim Txnar, J. D. H. Assam, Simons. SILHET and Kuasta MTS., Wallich, 
&c. CHITTAGONG ; at Seetakoond, J. D. H. & T. T. 
Stem stout, flexuous, scandent and rooting below; branches subterete or angu 
lar. Leaves remarkably uniform, 2-3 by 1-2) in. pale when dry, nerves strong, 
nervules transverse, base nearly equal, never cordate; petiole j-l in. Male spikes 
slender, 14-3 in.; flowers 2-8-androus. Fruiting spikes 4-6 in., flexuous; peduncle 
è in., slender; rachis glabrous, except the ciliate pits.— This is oue of the most con- 
stant of Indian species in the form of the leaf. The name P. plantagineum, Hamil- 
ton, has been overlooked by Miquel and Cas. DC., though the type of Wallich'$ 
No, 6659. , Cas. DC. bas described with P. Hamiltonii Wallich's 6659 C (misprint 
G), which is a very different plant, with caudate-acuminate leaves, and is referr 
by Miquel (Syst. 225) to Chavica Siriboa. It is, I think, neither Hamiltonis not 
Siriboa, and is in too young a condition of flowering to determine. A 
29. P. Hookeri, Mig. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 437; shrubby» 
