ly six at the forks) petioled, succulent, pellucid punc- 
tuate, rhombio-elliptic, obtuse or roundish, rarely re- 
tuse, contracting below into a short petiol, minutely 
puberulous, obsoletely 3-nerved below, speckled with 
depressed brown points; petiols united into a ring at 
the base: peduncles terminal, nearly as long as the 
catkins : catkins eylindrical, deeply pitted, rough. 
A very common plant on the Neilgherries on 
branches of trees and seems pretty generally dif- 
fused in alpine ranges. 
1923-2. PEPEROMIA COURTALLENSIS (Miq.), erect, 
succulent, glabrous, oppositely and alternately branch- 
ed: leaves moderately petioled, opposite, or the upper 
ones verticelled, and usually larger; all varying in 
form and size, elliptic-oblong, or obovate, acute or 
attenuated at the base, rounded or alternately obtuse 
and emarginate at the apex; and there the younger 
ones ciliolate, equal or unequal-sided, pellueid punc- 
tuate, pale beneath, obsoletely one- or 3-nerved : cat- 
kins axillary or terminal; solitary or aggregated, 
erect, straightish ; longish peduncled, rather densely 
flowered: berries somewhat immersed, obliquely ovate. 
Miq. in Hook. Bot. Jour., vol. 5, p. 549. 
Courtallum, forming patches on branches of trees 
or on moist rocks: flowering August and September. 
I think I have also met with this species on the 
Neilgherries. 
1924. PEPEROMIA WIGHTIANA (Miq.), herbaceous, 
succulent, erect, rooting at the base, pubescent: leaves 
alternate, or the upper ones opposite, petioled, the 
lower ones smaller, roundish or obovate, the rest 
elliptic or obovato-elliptic obtuse, acute at the base, 
glabrous; the younger ones somewhat ciliate at the 
apex, obsoletely 3-nerved; pellucid pointed, pale 
beneath: catkins longish peduncled, axillary, soli- 
tary, or the terminal ones aggregated, filiform, erect, 
remotely flowered : berries ovate, sub-oblique. 
Malabar, in woods. 
1925. PornHoMonPHE SUBPELTATA (Miq.), leaves 
membranaceous, pellucido-punctuate, sub-glabrous on 
the nerves and veins, beneath, towards the margin, 
puberulous between the veins, roundish reniform, 
cordate, acute, 11-13-nerved ; the middle nerve trifid 
"above the base: petiols for 4 or 3 their length wing- 
ed: wing evanescent: peduncles paired, unequal, 2- 
or several-spiked: bracts triangular, ciliate : seed 
black, ariolate, obovate, 3-sided. 
A widely dispersed species inhabiting, in India, 
dense humid subalpine forests. I first found it at 
Courtallum, but since then have met with it in many 
other localities. It occurs on the eastern slopes of 
the Neilgherries, in moist ground, at an elevation of 
about 5000 feet. 
1926. CHAVICA Bette (Miq.), shrubby, scandent, 
rooting, branches striated: leaves membranaceous, 
or the adult ones coriaceous, pellucido-punctuate; 
shining above, glabrous on both sides; the inferior 
ones ovate, broadly cordate, acutely acuminate, equal- 
sided; the upper ones unequal sided, slightly un- 
equally cordate, or rounded at the base, shortly 
acuminate or acute, septuple or quintuple-nerved : 
catkins peduneled ; male ones long slender, patulous 
or deflexed; female deflexed, shorter, long pedun- 
cled : stigmas 5 or 6. 
A universally cultivated plant and doubtless pre- 
senting numerous variations. The figure, which is 
one of Roxburgh's, differs in some points from the 
above character, and seems defective in its repre- 
sentation of the nerves which, however, I did not feel 
myself at liberty to alter, when sending the draw- 
ing to the Lithographer, as it bears Roxburgh's name 
as its authority, and I believe correetly represents 
the specimen from which it was taken. 
1927. CHAVICA PEEPULOIDES (Miq.), branches 
petiols and peduncles, delicately puberulous : leaves 
membranaceous, pellucido-punctuate, glabrous: in- 
ferior ones ovate, equal-sided, rounded at the base, 
acuminate at the apex, septuple or seven-nerved ; 
the upper ones oblong lanceolate or lanceolate, un- 
equal-sided, slightly unequal at the base, acute or 
acuminate at the apex; quintuple-nerved: male 
catkins short-peduncled, straight or curved, much 
Shorter than the leaves: bracts shortly pedicelled, 
peltate, orbicular : diandrous. 
The character of this species is taken from a male 
plant, the drawing apparently from a female. It is 
a native of Silhet. 
1928. Cmavica 有 他 oxBURGHI (Miq.), stem some- 
what shrubby, the sterile ones decumbent, the florif- 
erous ones ascending, dichotomously branched, at 
first slightly downy, afterwards glabrous, inferior 
leaves long petioled, ovate, roundish, broadly cordate ; 
acute or obtuse; seven-nerved ; upper ones short 
petioled ; top ones sessile, embracing the stems, ob- 
long, unequally cordate, 5-nerved, all thick mem- 
branaceous, finely pellucid punctuate: petiols and 
nerves beneath, especially near the base, finely 
downy, afterwards glabrous: male catkins filiform, 
cylindrical, with the peduncle as long as the leaves ; 
female ones thicker, less than half that length, about 
the length of the peduncle : stigmas 3-4, lanceolate. 
This plant is extensively cultivated for its fruit, 
which is the *long pepper" of the shops. I have 
never met with it except in gardens, and then only 
as single plants. It is readily propagated by cut- 
tings. The stems are annual, but the roots live sev- 
eral years, and when cultivated, usually yield three 
or four crops, after which they seem to become ex- 
hausted and require to be renewed by fresh planting. 
1929. Cmayica SARMENTOSA (Miq.), stem some- 
what shrubby, sterile ones decumbent, rooting, florife- 
rous ones erect, dichotomously branched, below glab- 
rous, ramuli finely downy: lower leaves long petiol- 
ed, roundish cordate or broadly ovato-cordate, shortly 
and obtusely acuminate, seven-nerved or decuple- 
nerved; upper ones short petioled or sub-sessile, 
ovate oblong, unequal-sided, unequally cordate or 
rounded at the base, acuminate, quintuple-nerved, all 
thick membranaceous, thickly pellucid pointed ; petiols 
and nerves beneath downy, glabrous above: female 
catkins short, thick, cylindrical, as long as the pedun- 
cle: stigmas 4, lanceolate. E 
Native of the Eastern Archipelago whence it was 
introduced into the Calcutta Bot. Garden. Miquel 
seems to think this very nearly allied to the former, 
notwithstanding the figures of the two plants seem 
so very distinct. The fruit, like that of the preced- 
ing, is gathered and sold under the same name. 
1930. Cmavica SYLVATICA (Miq.), stem fruticose, 
scandent, glabrous: leaves all petioled, equally cor- 
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