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opposed, short-peduncled, or columnar, slender. Scales one- 
flowered. Corol none. Filaments generally four, oval, fleshy, 
very short. Anthers one-celled, Germ none, Female aments 
on a different plant, leaf-opposed, short, peduncled, cylin- 
dric. Germ oval, orie-celled, ovula single, erect, that is, at- 
tached directly to the bottom of the cell. 
G6. P. peepuloides, R. 
Leaves equally-ovate, and ieleacoolate, chit -petiilied, 
from three to fiye-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, and 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 
Rumpbhius, called P. Chaba by Dr. W. Hunter, who found 
‘itcommon on the Island of Pulo-Pinang. It is immediately 
known from P. longum by the shape of the .leaves, as well 
_ by their being all equally petioled ; and from P. Chaba, by 
both sides of the base being equal, or nearly so; whereas in 
Chaba the lower side ismuch larger and longer. 
Root perennial. Stems and alternate branches creeping, 
young shoots smooth, Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from 
ovate-oblong to lanceolate, entire, acuminate; generally five- 
nerved, of which the exterior two are minute, and when 
absent the leaf is perfectly three-nerved, from three to five 
inches long, by from one to three broad. Stipules stem-clasp- 
ing and petiolary. The female aments have only been found, 
which induces me to think this species is dicecous, as most of 
them are; they are short-peduncled, solitary, and directl; 
i rei the leaves, bos hive no wag gee ‘in ‘common 
perm con iis NG sd ied Mir yethaatd idged in ait 
tle hollow in the apex of the perisperm. : 
