Piper. DIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. - 163- 
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. A native of the Malay Islands, and brought by Mr. Smith into 
the Botanic Garden, where it thrives luxuriantly, and is in fruit most - 
part of the year. 
Stems erect, from six to eighteen inches high, ramous at top, joint- 
: ed, and smooth. Sarmentose shoots ofa great length, issuing in abun- 
dance from the top of the root, and the lower part of the stem, by 
which the plant is quickly propagated to any extent.— Leaves alter- 
nate, thé lower ones petioled, broad, re- entering, cordate ; the upper - 
ones sub-sessile, obliquely-oblong ; all are smooth on both sides,’ 
and shining on the upper one.—Aments solitary; opposite to the 
leaves, short-peduncled, oblong, very small, being rarely more 
than a quarter of an inch long.— Germs oval, one-celled, ovulum one 
attached by the base to the bottom of the cell.— Fruit comipound, sub- 
cylindric, about the size of an infant’s finger, when ripe softish, and 
of a dark green or livid colour. Berries numerous, most of the . 
germs prove abortive, one-celled. Seed solitary, oval, attached to 
. the bottom of the cell. Integuments single, thin, light brown.— - 
Perisperm conform to the seed, friable —Embryo shape of a small 
broad inverted cone lodged in the apex of the perisperm. Radicle 
superior. 
17. P. angustifolium. R. : 
Scandent, or creeping, smooth. Leaves sessile, obliquely-lanceo- | 
late, very smooth. Aments leaf-opposed, — 
B native of the Malay teras 
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18. P. saratile. Wall. 
Stems furrowed, creeping, with villous joints and fascicled sub- 
erect branches. Leaves sub-sessile quatern, obovate-cuneate, fleshy, 
Convex and villous beneath, with three-coloured nerves, veinless, 
`- Spike terminal, filiform, elongated, pedunded. = — Bars 
. A native of the neighbourhood of Katmandu in N apala,’ -— EC 
j gon on rocks and blossoms during the first four months of the s year, 
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