1 58 DIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Piper. 
ment of the hot season the roots are to be carefully covered with _ 
straw to preserve them against the heat of the sun. - The plants 
should be set about five feet asunder. Large quantities of this pepper 
and also of the roots are exported to Bombay, aud Surat; where 
both are in great demand, the first for culinary, the latter for medi- 
cinal purposes. The Ryots in this part of the country, usually sow 
radishes, or barley, or plant brinjals (Solanum melongena), in the in- 
termediate space between the plants. 
4. P. Chaba. W. Hunter in Asiat. Res. ix. 391. 
Shrubby, creeping. Leaves short-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, base - 
unequal, scarcely triple-nerved : aments leaf-opposed, erect, cylin- 
drico-conical, firm and fleshy. 24 
Sans. Gaj Chuvyung, wo Chuvika, db Chuvee, wa : | 
Chavikung. — 2l 
- Beng. Choee. = 
Piper-longum. Rumph. amb. 5. p. 333. t. 116. f. 1. d 
Obs. Cattu-tirpali. Rheed. mal. 7. p. 27. t. 14. represents a very. ? Fl 
different species, the fruit of which is also used over the continent feo 
of India, and particularly in the western part thereof, as long pep- 
ger, and is much cultivated in Bengal, chiefly for its root, which the 
natives call P?ppula. Woodville’s figure, in his Medical Botany, no 
very bad, for it answers neither to this, nor P. longum, Linn. Sp. P E S 
ed. Willd. 161. which may be called the long pepper of the continent = . 
of India. Blackw ell’s figure i is still worse. j 
5. p. Darcan. R. E 
Leaves ali petioled, broad-cordate, from five to seven-nerved, ob. A 
tuse; lobes of the base large, equal, circular. Aments erect, short-pe- 
duncled, coiumnar, male flowers tetrandrous. 
, A native of the mountains on the North-west border of Bengal, n 
where the natives call it Pahari peepul, or mountain long-peppet zo 
and use it, both green and ripe, in their dishes. In the Botanic pw D. 
den it blossoms, and the berries ripen during the rains. | 
