156 DIANDRIA TRIGYNIA, . Piper, 
plant brinjals (Solanum melongena), in the intermediate space 
between the plants, 
A. P: Chaba, W. Hunter in Asiat. Res,.ix. 391. - af 
Shrubby, creeping. Leaves short-petioled, ovate-lanceolate, 
base unequal, scarcely triple-nerved ; aments leaf-opposed, 
erect, cylindrico-conical, firm and fleshy. 
Sans. Chuvyung, Chuvika, Chuvee, Chavikung. 
- Beng, Choee. 
Piper longum. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 333. ts 16.f.1. 
Obs. Cattu-tirpali. Rheed. Mal. 7. p. 27.t. 14. represents 
a very different species, the fruit of which is also used over | 
the continent of India, and particularly in the western part 
thereof, as long pepper, and is much cultivated in Bengal, — 
chiefly for its root, which the natives call Pippula. Wood- 
ville’s figure, in his Medical Botany, is very bad, for it an- 
swers neither to this, nor P. longum, Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd, 
161. which may be called the long pepper of the continent 
of India, Blackwell’s figure is still worse. 
5. P. sylvaticum. R. . : 
Leaves all. petioled, broad-cordate, from five to seven-nerv- 
ed, obtuse ; lobes of the base large, equal, circular, Aments 
erect, short-peduncled, columnar ; male flowers tetrandrous. 
A native of the mountains on the north-west border of Ben- 
gal, where the natives call it Pahari peepul, or mountain 
long pepper, and use it, both green and ripe, in their dishes. 
In the Botanic apeatees: it — = the antes ojucpeeee 
ing the rain ee 
Root perennial, Stem or ails bdisidlicn creeping on. the 
ground, or rooting on trees like Ivy, and most of the East In- 
dia species of pepper ; all the young parts polished. Leaves 
alternate, petioled, equally-cordate, obtuse, from five to seven- 
; = es from three to five inches aren me from two to 
