Piper, prANpRIA TRIGYNIA, SE 153 
TRIGYN IA. 
PIPER. Schreb. Cd N. 59. 
_ Ament filiform, imbricated with peltate scales. Corol none. Germ 
one-celled with a single, erect oculum. Berry one-seeded. Embryo 
inverse, and furnished with an ample perisperm, 
1. P. nigrum. Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. 1. 159. 
Leaves bifarious, obliquely ovate-cordate, acuminate, polished, 
from five to seven-nerved. 
Pepper-vine. Marsden’s History oF rated p. 105. 
Molago-codi. Rheed. mal. 7. 23. t. 12. Se 
Suns. FHtsj, Vellojung, atá, Macaa ia  Murichung, 
Fras, Kolukung, waraaat, Krishnumooshunung, stat ze 
muputtunung. 
Hind. and Beng. Murich, or Gol-murich. 
Tam. Moloovoo-kodi. 
Pers. Pilpil. 
Arab. Filfil. 
` Malay. Ladda, 
` Cultivated in various parts of India, and its Islands. 
X P. trioicum. R. 
" T rieecous, shrubby, rooting. Leaves pituious: obliquely-ovate, 
acuminate, from five to seven-nerved, glausous. Aments leaf-opposed, 
cylindric, pendulous. 
Teling. M urjal-tiga. : 
Roots long, striking deep into the eir Diak jointed, winding, 
when old woody, and scabrous, running along the ground to a great 
extent, or up trees, &c. when trained to them; from each joint. : 
issue roots which take firm hold of Whatever they meet with. 
` Branches numerous, alternate ; the young ones smooth, the o! 
2 and scabrous like the stem.— Leaves alternate pe 
