date, obtuse; base of the lobes broad orbicular, 5-7- 
nerved, glabrous: male catkins shortly peduncled, 
slender ; female, short cylindrical: stamens 4. 
Native of the North Eastern Provinces of Bengal. 
This plate is taken, like the preceding, from Roxburgh's 
drawing, but the name was accidentally omitted when 
sending it to the Lithographer. 
1931. CnavicA SPHÆROSTACHYA (Miq.), glabrous, 
leaves somewhat coriaceous, scarcely pellucid dotted, 
elliptic, unequal-sided, acute or cuniate at the base, 
acuminate; acumen blunt, sometimes mucronate; sep- 
tuple-nerved : male catkins filiform ; female, globose : 
braets pedicelled, orbiculate: stigmas thin, short, re- 
curved, connate at the base. 
Eastern Islands, Nepaul, and common on the Neil- 
gherries, where the specimens represented were ob- 
tained. It seems to be in flower or fruit at all sea- 
sons, is an extensive climber and covers the adjoining 
trees with a dense mass of vegetation. ı 
1932. Cusesa WALLICHIIT (Miq.), ramuli and the 
petiols of the young leaves, slightly downy, soon glab- 
rous: leaves epunctulate, oblong, slightly unequal- 
sided, acute ; deeply cordate, equal at the base ; lobes 
rounded, nineto 13-plenerved, the three middle nerves 
remote from the base: berry-bearing catkins spread- 
ing, thick: the berries globose, a little produced at 
the apex by the remains of the stigma; shorter than 
the, somewhat thickened upwards, pedicel. 
The following description of the specimen figured 
is from the same pen, and will account for its publi- 
cation. I now regret not having copied Miquel's 
figures of,the fructification into my plate, which 
would have made it much more complete. 
* Cubeba, male specimen.— Leaves coriaceous ovate 
or elliptic acute, acuminate, 5-7 -plenerved, three mid- 
dle ones distinct from the base: catkins long filiform, 
flowers arranged in rings or fascicles: bracts coriace- 
ous, obtuse, adnate at the base, concave, glabrous: 
stamens near a fasciculus of short hairs. 
“ Malabar. 
“ This specimen probably appertains to C. Walli- 
chii of which I have as yet only seen the female, 
which differs in having the leaves cordate at the 
base: since however in this genus the leaves of both 
sexes often differ in form and magnitude, I may be 
deceived in this opinion." 
lt is with a view to making known the aspect of 
a plant, referable to a genus almost unknown in Con- 
tinental India, that this imperfect figure has been 
introduced, in the hope that it may lead to the dis- 
covery of the fructiferous plant which should be dis- 
tinguishable by having the berries not sessile or im- 
mersed in the spike, but borne on a distinct pedicel. 
1933. Pırer ATTENUATUM (Hamilt.), scandent, 
rooting and giving off suckers, young shoots glab- 
rous: leaves membranaceous obsoletely pellucido- 
punctuate; glabrous above, the petiols veins and 
nerves beneath roughish; the lower ones long pe- 
tioled, cordate, ovate acuminate, 9-nerved ; upper 
ones broadly ovate, truncated at the base, 7- or sep- 
tuple-nerved; female catkins slender filiform, short 
peduncled; peduncle much shorter than the leaves; 
bracts adnate oblong: ovary elliptic, stigmas 4, 
roundish, deflexed. E 
Neilgherries, Eastern slopes. There is a discre- 
pancy in the specimen represented and Miquel's de- 
scription and figure of this species. The female 
catkin in his specimen, which is younger than mine, 
is about the length of the male one of my plant, or 
less than half the length of that of my specimen. 
As, however, my plant corresponds in other respects, 
I believe it is the same species. He had not seen 
male catkins and only very young female ones, and 
Iknow thatin my plantthey lengthen as the seed 
advance towards maturity. 
1934. Piper nigrum (Linn), stem shrubby, 
climbing, rooting, round ; leaves coriaceous, glabrous, 
pale glaucous beneath; adult ones revolute on the 
margins; the lower ones, roundish ovate, about 
equal-sided, slightly cordate or truncated at the base, 
septuple or noveno-nerved, namely the three middle 
ones each separating above the base and extending 
to the point; upper ones ovato-elliptic, or elliptic, 
usually unequal-sided, acutely acuminate, 7-5-nerv- 
ed: catkins hermaphrodite or female, filiform, pendu- 
lous, shortly peduncled, shorter than the leaves: 
bracts linear oblong, yellow on the margin: rachis 
between the bracts rough: stamens two, thick, stig- 
más 3—4, rarely 5, thick, lanceolate: berries globose, 
red when ripe; floriferous calycule in the hermaphro- 
dite 4-lobed. 
Malabar. The es are taken from specimens 
named by Dr. Miquel, but little dependence can be 
placed on the forms presented by specimens taken from 
cultivated plants of species that have been so long in 
cultivation as this one has. My impression, and I 
think it is also becoming Miquel's, is that Piper tri- 
oicum is the original type of P. nigrum, and that the 
latter should merge in the former. 
1935-6. PIPER TRIOICUM (Roxb.), stem shrubby, 
sarmentose(throwing out runners) and creeping: leaves 
coriaceous, dark green above, light glaucous below; 
somewhat obliquely elliptic (the lower ones sub-cor- 
date) acuminate, rounded or subacute at the base; 
the upper ones lanceolate oblong, 5-7-tuple-nerved : 
catkins trioicous ; males filiform, females more rigid 
and shorter: bracts 3 series; of the hermaphrodites 
4 series; the younger ones delicately ciliate, some 
glabrous; floriferous pit rough: ovary sub-globose, 
3—4 stigmas : floriferous calycule of the hermaphrodite 
catkins 2-lobed. ; 
Circars. 
The aceompanying plates are taken from Rox- 
burgh's drawings and must therefore represent the 
true plant. Subsequent to Miquel's writing the above 
characters he had an opportunity of examining spe- 
cimens from the South of India, and seems now to 
think that this species is scarcely distinct from P. 
nigrum, but consigns their examination and final 
determination to the careful consideration of Indian 
Botanists. My own impression is that the species 
are too much wire drawn, but of course in this Í am 
likely enough to be in error, as I have, as yet, had 
neither leisure nor materials nec to admit of 
my undertaking its minute examination, without which 
it would be premature to express a decided opinion. 
1937. Piper syıvestee (Lamarck), stem shrubby, 
scandent, rooting: leaves membranaceous pellucido- 
punctuate, glabrous, green above, glaucous beneath, 
ovate, acuminate, oblique at the base, or in the lower 
ones somewhat cordate and equal, 7-nerved, the three 
middle ones extending to the apex: male catkins 
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