Cy DIANDRIA TRIGYNIA, Piper, 
none. Stigmas three, spreading. Berry globular, size of a 
small pea, red, smooth, one-celled. ‘Seeds solitary. 
3. P. longum. Willd. 1. 161. : 
- Dieecous, shrubby, creeping. Lower. leaves petioled, 
broad-cordate, floral leaves sessile, stem-clasping, oblong-cor- 
date ; all are from five to nine-nerved. =~ ; 
Cutta-tirpali, Rheed. Mal. 7. p. 27. t. 14. 
Sans. Krishna, Oopukoolya, Videhee, Magudhee, a" : 
Kuna, Ooshuna, Pippulee, Shoundee, Kola. : 
. Beng. Pippul, the root Pippwla-moola. 
English. Long pepper. 
Pippul-chittoo is the Telinga name of the plant and Pip. 
puloo the pepper. 
The plant I have found wild amongst bushes, on the banks 
of water courses, up towards the Circar mountains, It flow- 
ers and bears fruit during the wet and cold seasons, * Ki 
Root woody, perennial. Stems many, creeping, jointed, 
round ; joinis swelled; young shoots downy. Branchlets 
bearing the fruit are erect, with the leaves sessile, or nearly 
so. Leaves on the creeping branches largest, petioled, broad-« 
' cordate, seven-nerved ; on the erect, fruit-bearing branchlets 
(floral leaves) stem-clasping, oblong-cordate, five-nerved ; 
all are smooth, somewhat wrinkled ; below pale green ; size 
various, Stipules of the petioled Leaves two, joining length- 
ways to the petioles, lanceolate; of the sessile a 
the leaf, single, spathiform, 6 semereest 
_ FEMALE riowers. Ament sessile, Aeaboppalees pedir, a 
erect, cylindric, imbricated with five, or more, spiral rows of 
small, orbicular, permanent, | peltated, one-flowered scales. 
Calyx none. Corol none. Stamens none. Germs numerous, 
aggregate, sessile, sub-orbicular, Style none or exceedingly 
_ short, Stigmas three or four-lobed. Pericarp aggregate, sub- 
: ‘sylindrical, pommpones of iemsly united, one-seeded — i 
a only ofr as Vhave been able 1 : 
