146 CXIII, PIPERACEZ (BAKER AND WRIGHT). | Piper. 
3. P. capense, Linn. f. Suppl. 90. A shrub, erect or more or 
less climbing. Branches terete, swollen at the nodes, glabrous. Leaves 
ovate or more rarely elliptic-ovate, equilateral or nearly so, shortly 
acuminate, rounded or shortly cordate at the base, 5—-7-nerved, mem- 
branous, pellucid-dotted, about 4 in. long, 24-3 in. wide, glabrous 
above, usually villous on the under-surface of the nerves especially 
towards their base ; petiole channelled above, about 1 in. long, glabrous; 
stipules lanceolate, membranous, deciduous. Catkins terminating short 
lateral branches which falsely appear to spring from the middle of the 
petiole, 14-2 in. long in flower, cylindrical; peduncles about 9 lin. 
long; bracts peltate, glabrous except at the base of the very short 
stalk. Stamens 3 or 2; anther-cells separated by a wide connective. 
Ovary ovoid; stigmas 2, recurved. Fruit obtuse, compressed, sessile.— 
Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 443; C. DC. in DC. Prody. xvi. i. 339, 
and in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 224; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr.C.159. P. Volkensi, 
C. DC. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 225. Coccobryon capense, Miq. Syst. Piper. 
343; and in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xxi. Suppl. 59, t. 61. Cubeba 
capensis, Miq. Syst. Piper. 303. Peperomia capensis, Loudon, Hort. Brit. 
ed. i. 13; Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, ii. 301. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 2015! 
Johnston, 59! Buea, Preuss, 615! Dusen, 409, Zenker, 265. Fernando Po, 
1300 ft., Mann, 299! 
Nile Land. Uganda: Mawokoto, 3900 ft., Brown, 195! Wimi Valley, 
Ruwenzori, 7000-8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7909 ! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, 4000-7000 ft., Mann ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Lutindi, Holst, 3281! 
Derema, Volkens, 130! 139! Scheffler, 89! Holst, 2269! and without precise 
locality, Buchwald,62! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; various localities, 
Kirk! Whyte! Buchanan, 762! 
Var. magnifolium, C. DC.in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 224, Blade of the lower leaves 
54 in. long, 4? in. wide, of upper 3? in. long and wide. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: near Buea, Preuss, 615. 
Also in South Africa. This species requires further investigation in the field; 
the habit being so differently described by various collectors would suggest that 
several species are included here. 
4. P. Molleri, C. DC. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 153. Glabrous. 
Branches terete. Lower leaves rotundate-ovate, up to 11-nerved and 
equally cordate at the base, 43 in. long ; upper leaves ovate, 7-9-nerved, 
equally cordate or rounded at the base, 4 in. long, all acutely cuspidate, 
when dry dull green, membranous, pellucid-dotted ; petiole rather long, 
sheathing beyond the middle. Peduncle about twice as long as the 
petiole; catkins shorter than the leaf-blade; rhachis slightly pilose; 
bracts orbicular, peltate, subsessile. Stamens 2; anthers longer than 
the filaments. Berry subglobose, with the apex of the rhachis intruded ; 
stigmas 2, short. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas : Monte Caffé, Nova Moka, 2780-4250 ft., 
Moller & Quintas. 
Said to resemble P. sylvestre, Lam., from Manritius and Tropical Asia, but to 
differ in the shape of the bracts and the number of stamens. 
