Piper. DIAXDRIA TRIGYXIA. ]51 



Hind, and Reiuj. Mwrich, or Gol-immch. 



Tarn. Moloovoo-kodi. 



Pers. Pilpil. 



Arab. Filfil. 



Malay. Ladda. 



Cultivated in various parts of India, and its Islands. 



*2. P. trioicum. R. 



Tricecous, shrubby, rooting. Leaves bifarious, obliquely- 

 ovate, acuminate, from five to seven-nerved, glaucous. Aments 

 leaf-opposed, cylindric, pendulous. 



Teling. Mwrial-tiga. 



Roots long, striking deep into the earth. Stem jointed, 

 winding, when old woody, and scabrous, running along the 

 ground to a great extent, or up trees, &c. when trained to 

 them ; from each joint issue roots which take firm hold of 

 whatever they meet with. Branches numerous, alternate ; 

 the young ones smooth, the old ones woody, and scabrous 

 like the stem. Leaves alternate, pttioled, cordate, broad- 

 oval, ovate, or oblong, pointed, from five to seven nerved, 

 (generally five,) above, smooth and glossy, below, lighter 

 coloured, often somewhat bubbled, from four to six inches 

 long, and from two to four broad. Petioles channelled, 

 smooth, an inch or an inch and a half long - . Stipules solitary, 

 spathilbrm, foiling off when the leaf begins to be unfolded. 



Male Plaxt. Calyx an ament, leaf-opposed, ped uncled, 

 filiform, pendulous, closely imbricated with five spiral rows, 

 of fleshy, oval, one-flowered scales. Scales oblong-, peltate, 

 sessile, one-flowered. Carol none. Filaments three, very 

 thick, and very short, scarcely elevating the anthers above 

 the margins of the scales of the ament. Anthers four-lobed. 

 Pistil, in some, a minute cylindric gland in the centre, in 

 others, not the smallest rudiment of one. 



Female Plant. Calyx an ament, leaf-opposed, shorter, 

 thicker, and more rigid than in the male, imbricated with 

 three spiral rows of scales. Scales as in the male. Corol none. 



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