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ARISTOLOCHIACE®. 
BRAGANTIA TOMENTOSA, Blume. 
A remarkable little plant with small purple flowers hidden in the soil. Kwala Tem- 
beling woods. 
This has not hitherto been recorded from the Malay Peninsula. Mr. Curtis got what 
is evidently the same plant at Tanjong Sirih in Kedah and in the Lankawi Islands. 
THOTTEA, sp. | 
I saw іп several places what I believe to be the leaves of 7. grandiflora, Rottb., but 
could find neither fruit nor flowers. 
ARISTOLOCHIA ROXBURGHIANA, Klotzsch. 
Twining on old stumps and in bushes on islands in the Pahang River. Flowers with 
a green globose base, then abruptly bent; tube green, lip pubescent hairy, deep brown, 
with a white blotch at entrance to tube. Leaves deep green, shining. 
PIPERACEZ. 
PIPER CANINUM, Blume. 
A scandent plant climbing through the bushes ; berries scarlet. Woods, Tahan River. 
P. MuRicAtuM, Blume. 
An erect herb, one form very hirsute, another with the lower part of the stem 
glabrous. Kota Glanggi woods. 
Р. СнАвА, Hunter. 
Common in Pekan. Usually found in waste grounds in the villages. It is used 
medicinally under the name of “ Chabei.” 
It most commonly occurs as an erect herb about a foot high, with deep green leaves 
and white flower-spikes, but eventually emits runners, and sometimes becomes scandent. 
Р. BETEL, Linn. 
Commonly cultivated for chewing with Areca-nut. 
Р: ROSTRATUM, Roxb. 
Kota Glanggi woods. 
The form here had fiddle-shaped leaves ; the commoner form in the Peninsula appears 
to be one with more oblong-ovate leaves. 
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P. тохснттев, Roem. 4 Schult. | | 
Kwala Tahan, near the first camp, climbing up and thickly covering the stem of a tree. 
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P. ARGYROPHYLLUM, Miq. 
Woods, Kota Glanggi. ung 
This Pepper is common in the woods, especially of the limestone districts, and is 
very conspieuous on account of its ornamental leaves marbled with white; but it is 
very rarely met with in flower. 
SECOND SERIES.—BOTANY, VOL. III. 9 B 
