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Root perennial.—Stem or rather branches creeping on the ground, 
or rooting on trees like Ivy, and most of the East India species of pep- 
per; all the young parts polished.— Leaves alternate, petioled, equal 
ly-cordate, obtuse, from five to seven-nerved, smooth, from three to 
five inches long, by from two to four broad.— Petioles from one to two 
inches long, erooved.— Stipules interfoliaceous, Kc. as in the genus. — 
Male aments \eaf-opposed, short-peduncled, or columnar, slender. 
Scales one-flowered.— Coro! noue.— Filaments generally four, oval, 
fleshy, very short. Anthers one celled.-— Germ none.—- Female 
aments on a different plant, leaf opposed, short-peduncled, cylindric. 
— Germ oval, one-celled, ovula single, erect, that is, attached direct. 
` ly to the bottom of the cell. | = 
6. P. peepuloides. R: 
Leaves equally-ovate, and ovate-lanceolate, short-petioled, from 
three to five-nerved, smooth, acuminate. Aments sub-sessile, cylindric. 
Pippul the vernacular name in Silhet, and on the adjacent range 
of mountains where it is indigenous, and considered the Pippul, 
or long-pepper of that country, aud as such is used in medicine, 
&c. It differs specifically, no doubt, from the long-pepper plant of 
lower Bengal, as well as from that of Rumphius, called P. Chaba 
by Dr. W. Hunter, who fouud it common on the Island of Pulo- 
Pinang. It is immediately known from P. longum by the shape. 
of the leaves, as well as by their being all equally petioled ; and. 
from P. Chaba, : by both sides of the base being equal, or near- 
ly so ; whereas in Chaba the lower side is much larger and longe; 
Root perennial.—Stems and alternate branches creeping, young 
shoots smooth.— Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from ovate-ob- 
ng, to lanceolate, entire, acuminate ; generally five-nerved, of which. a 
the exterior two are minute, and when absent the leaf is perfectly 
three-nerved, from three to five inches long, by from one to threebroad. _ 
—Stipules stem-clasping, and petiolary— The Female aments have 
only been found, which induces me to think this species is di 
cous, as most of them are; they are short-peduncled, solitary, and 
directly opposite to the leaves.— Berries smaller than in common 
