150 DIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. Piper. 



of the limb spreading, lanceolate, acute, twice as long as the 

 tube. Stamina almost as long as the corol : filaments insert- 

 ed within its mouth between two opposite fissures ; anthers 

 oblong, bursting lengthways on both sides. Pistil shorter 

 than the stamina, smooth ; ovarium roundish, two-celled, with 

 two pendulous ovida in each cell ; style short ; stigma fleshy, 

 oblong, acute. Berries oval, dark blue, with a beautiful 

 bloom on them, rather smaller than those of the common Pri- 

 vet ; pulp brown. Seeds one or two; cotyledons broad ovate. 

 In other respects like those of Ligustrum. Gcert. Carp. ii. 

 72. tab. 92. 



Obs. This species differs from L. japonicum, Thunb. and 

 lucidum, Ait. in the figure and villosity of its leaves and the 

 contracted shape of its panicle. It may perhaps be found 

 the same as L. sinense, Lour, especially if the racemes, which 

 in the flora Cochin-chinensis are attributed to that tree, are 

 considered as panicles, which indeed has been done by the 

 illustrious author of that article in Rees's New Cyclopaedia. 

 VERBENA. See Didynamia Angiospermla. 



DIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 



PIPER. Sckreb. gen. N. 59. 



Anient filiform, imbricated with peltate scales. Corol none. 

 Germ one-celled, with a single, erect ovuhim. Berry one- 

 seeded. Embryo inverse, and furnished with an ample peri- 

 sperm. 



1. P. nigrum. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. 1. 159. 



Leaves bifarious, obliquely ovate-cordate, acuminate, po- 

 lished, from five to seven-nerved. 



Pepper-vine. Marsden's History of Sumatra, p. 105. 



Melago-codi. Rheed. Mai. 7. 23. t. 12. 



Sans. Velloj«ng, Mareechwng, M*/richMiig, Kolwk?nig, 

 KnshnwmoosbjmMng, Dh?/rmz/p«ttwnMng. 



