Piper.| CXIII. PIPERACEE (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 145 
295; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 95. Heckeria umbellata, H. subpeltata 
and HH, sidefolia, Kunth in Linnea, xiii. 569-571. Pothomorphe sub- 
peltata, Miq. Syst. Piper. 213; and in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xxi. 
Suppl. 29, t. 26, fig. B; Wight, Ic. t. 1925. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Regent, Scott-Elliot, 4077! Mount 
Yamba, Scarcies Valley, Scott-Elliot, 4287! Liberia: Sinoe Basin, Whyte! 
Ashanti: Assin-yan-Kumassi, Cummins, 149! Lagos, Millen, 113! Cameroons: 
Cameroon Mountain, 3000 ft., Mann, 1272! Fernando Po, Vogel, 53! Mann, 70! 
North Central. Ubangi Territory: Krebedje, Chevalier, 6006 ! 
Nile Land. Niamniam: at Nakofoh River, Schweinfurth, 3076! 3222! 
Lower Guinea. (Gaboon: Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 206! Angola: Golungo 
Alto; forests by the Cuango and Delamboa Rivers, Welwitsch, 501! 6707! Pungo 
Andongo ; in forests of Mata de Pungo in the Presidium, Welwitsch, 502! 
South Central. Congo Free State; Bangala, on the Congo, 1000 ft., Hens, 
355! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Holst, 2267! 3310! Buch- 
wald, 674. Karagwe; Bukoba, ex Engler ; East, Ulugura, Stuhlmann, 9048. 
Also in the Mascarene Islands, Tropical Asia and Tropical America, 
2. P. guineense, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 19. A 
glabrous shrub, climbing to a height of 30-40 ft. by means of densely 
hairy adventitious rootlets. Leaves ovate, acuminate, equally or un- 
equally cordate to obtusely cuneate at the base, 4—5 in. long, 24-3 in. 
wide, sometimes pubescent on the under-side of the nerves, otherwise 
glabrous; lateral nerves about 2 on each side of the lower half of the 
midrib; petiole 2-9 lin. long. Spikes solitary, leaf-opposed, 1-2 (in 
fruit up to 4) in. long, shortly peduncled; bracts rotundate, peltate, 
glabrous or slightly hairy beneath. Stigmas 3. Fruit globose, shortly 
mucronate, about 14 lin. in diam. when dry, on a pedicel 3 lin. long.— 
C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 343; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 912; 
var. thomeanum, C. DC. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 152. P. Clusii, C. DC. 
in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 340; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 245. P. leonense, C. DC. 
in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 342. Cubeba Clusii, Mig. Syst. Piper. 304; 
Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 434. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: various localities, Scott-Elliot, 4003! 4688! 
4875! Don! Gold Coast: Eastern Akin, Johnson, 720! 745! Aquapim, Rumsey, 
11! and without precise locality, Johnson, 175! Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Millen, 
65! Tyere, Dawodu,195! Brass, Barter, 2076! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter ! 
Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 938! 1912! 2414! Barombi, Preuss, 417! Fernando 
Po, Roscher, 917! Barter ! Mann, 162! 
North Central. Ubangi Territory: Bangui, Chevalier, 5229! 
Wile Land. Dar Fertit: Dem Gudyu, Schweinfurth, iii.120! Niamniam: 
Boddo River, Schweinfurth, 3842! near Kulenjo, Schweinfurth, 2949! Uganda: 
Entebbe, 3900-4000 ft., Mahon ! West Ankole, 5000 ft., Dawe, 359! Kampala, 
Scott-Elliot ,7246! 7284! Mabira Forest, Chagwe, Ussher, 56! 
Island of St. Thomas, Welwitsch, 509! Moller, Quintas. 
Lower Guinea. , 
Angola: Golungo Alto; various 
Gaboon: Munda, Sibange Farm, Soyauz, 46! 
localities, Welwitsch, 508! 510! 
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