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154 D1ANDRI\ TRIGYNIA. Piper. 



none. Stigmas three, spreading-. Berry globular, size of a 

 small pea, red, smooth, one-celled. Seeds solitary. 



3. P. longum. Willd. 1. I CI. 



Dicecous, shrubby, creeping-. Lower leaves petioled, 

 broad-cordate, floral leaves sessile, stem-clasping, oblong-cor- 

 date ; all are from five to nine-nerved. 

 Cutta-tirpali. Rheed, Mai. 7. p. 27. t. 14. 

 Sans. Krishna, Oopwkoolya, Videhee, Mngudhee, Chwpwla, 

 Ktfna, Oosh?ma, Pippwlee, Shoundee, Kola. 

 Beng. Pippul, the root Pippwla-moola. 

 English. Long pepper. 



Pippul-chittoo is the Telinga name of the plant, and P/p- 

 p?doo the pepper. 



The plant I have found wild amongst bushes, on the banks 

 of water courses, up towards the Circar mountains. It flow- 

 ers and bears fruit during the wet and cold seasons. 



Root woody, perennial. Stems many, creeping, jointed, 

 round ; joints swelled ; young shoots downy. Branchlets 

 bearing the fruit are erect, with the leaves sessile, or nearly 

 so. Leaves on the creeping branches largest, petioled, broad- 

 cordate, seven-nerved ; on the erect, fruit-bearing branchlets 

 (floral leaves) stem-clasping, oblong-cordate, five-nerved ; 

 all are smooth, somewhat wrinkled ; below pale green ; size 

 various. Stipules of the petioled leaves two, joining length- 

 ways to the petioles, lanceolate; of the sessile leaves within 

 the leaf, single, spathiform. 



Female flowers. Anient sessile, leaf-opposed, peduncled, 

 erect, cylindric, imbricated with five, or more, spiral rows of 

 small, orbicular, permanent, peltated, one-flowered scales. 

 Calyx none. Corol none. Stamens none. Germs numerous, 

 ao-a-reo-ate, sessile, sub-orbicular. Style none or exceedingly 

 short. Stigmas three or four-lobed. Pericarp aggregate, sub- 

 cylindrical, composed of firmly united, one-seeded drupes. 

 Seed ovate, smooth. 



Obs. It is in Bengal only, so far as I have been able to 



