: 
Peperomia. | CXXIV. PIPERACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 99 
lensis, Thwaites Enum. 292, and Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 463 (not of 
Miquel). 
CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites (C. P. 2173). 
Stems 6-10 in. long, diffusely branched, as thick as a crow-quill, naked below, 
Tooting at the distant nodes. Leaves 3-1 in., narrowed into a very short petiole. 
Spikes 3-% in., stoutly peduncled, obtuse.— This is the P. courtallensis of Cas. DC., 
Who cites Miquel, but omits the Continental Indian localities where P. courtallensis 
Proper alone is found, and the number (831) which he quotes is of Gardner’s (not 
Thwaites’) collection. This differs from P. portulacoides in habit, and the form of 
the subsessile leaves, and the spikes. 
9. P. Heyneana, Mig. Syst. Pip. 123; quite glabrous, stem diffusely 
branched creeping and rooting, leaves opposite and 3-4-nately whorled 
petioled linear- or obovate-oblong obcuneate or obcordate rarely orbicular 
3-nerved, spikes slender axillar terminal and panicled, Cas. DC. in Prodr. 
Xvi. 1. 453. Piper oblongum, Wall. Cat. 6663 C? 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 3500 ft., Strachey & Winter- 
bottom, to Sikkim, alt. 5-6000 ft. Kuasta Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T. 
Patkoye Mts. in UPPER Assam, Griffith. 
A small prostrate tufted very variable species. Stem 4-10 in. long, rather slender. 
Leaves 3-1} in. long, thinly fleshy, drying green; petiole 4-3 in. Spikes 4-1} in. 
—It is unfortunate that Miquel should have attached the name of Heyne to a species 
Which Heyne never saw, and which grows very far from the region which that 
author rendered botanically classical. 
10. P. reflexa, 4. Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 180; stem pubescent stout densely 
"branched and tufted leafy, leaves.sessile or shortly petioled coriaceous 
nately whorled orbicular or nearly so 3-nerved pubescent beneath or gla- 
rate, spikes solitary axillary and terminal stout much exceeding the leaves. - 
it: Syst. Pip. 169, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 426, Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 
6, and in Mart. Fl. Bras. iv. 17; Wight Ic. t. 1933. P. reflexa, vars. | 
t. Berlandieri & n. parviflora, Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 452. Piper saxa- 
Suo Wall. Cat. 6604. P. pusillum, Blume in Verh. Bat. Nat. Genoots. x1. 
2, f. 37. Micropiper pusillum, Mig. Comm. Phyt. t. 5. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal, alt. 4-6000 ft., Edgeworth, to Sikkim, 
Tending to 7000 ft., and to UPPER Assam, Griffith. Kasra Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft. 
AVANCORE, at Courtallam, Wight. CEYLON, Central Province, ascending to 
.— DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China, Australia, Africa, America. — 
. Stem or branches 3-10 in., rooting at the lower nodes, lower as thick as a goose- 
quill in Courtallam specimens, which are nearly glabrous, more slender in others. 
maed very uniform, rarely opposite or 6-nate, j in. long, rarely more, sometimes 
store? lower shortly petioled, wrinkled and yellowish when dry. Spikes }-1} in., 
utly pedicelled, obtuse, 
Order CXXV. CHLORANTHACEJE. 
Herbs shrubs or trees, usually aromatic. Leaves opposite, usually 
toothed, petioles often connate and Forming a sheath ; stipules small, subu- 
la Powers in terminal or pseudo-axillary spikes, heads or Po th Y 
Sexual (one of each sex sometimes cohering). Fu. d. Perianth 0. 
thamens l or 3 connate, filaments very short and thick; anthers 2-celled, or 
? latera] when 3 are connate l-celled. FL. 9. Perianth 0, or adnate to the 
| Ovary, with a 3-toothed limb. Ovary 1-celled; style very short linear or 
Subclavate or 0 the top of the cavity. 
; ovule 1, orthot , pendulous from the top of 
ap ‘pe small ovoid or globose. ‘Sood pondulous, testa membranous, albumen 
Plous fleshy ; embryo minute, far from the hilum, cotyledons diverging, 
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