1S} PEPPERWORTS. 
Piper. Miquel. 
Woody. Spikes solitary, opposite the leaves. Flowers sessile, polygamo- 
_diccious. Bracts oblong, sessile, decurrent. 
1. P. nigrum Linneus.x—(Buack Perper, Wurre Perper.) Fig. 190. 
Lower leaves roundish ovate, nearly equilateral, pale beneath, dotted when 
young; amenta 6 or 9, filiform, pendulous. 
mittent fevers, relaxed es 
uvula, gonorrhoea, para- 
pig lysis of the tongue, 
_/~ 9, P.trioicum Roxburgh. 
Fig. 191. cna 
_Srewer; amenta polygamous, ¢ filiform, @ stiffer and shorter. 
Fig. 192.—Leaf and flowers of 
K ‘ eles = : 
Uses. In cookery ; inter- — ne 
leaves cordate, obliquely elliptical, acuminate, the uppermost yin 
