156 diandria trigvnia. Piper. 



plant brinjals (Solarium melongena), in the intermediate space 

 between the plants. 



4. P. Chaba. W. Hunter in Asial. Res. ix. 391. 

 Shrubby, creeping. Leaves short-petioled, ovate-Ian ceojate, 



base unequal, scarcely triple-nerved ; aments leaf-opposed, 

 erect, cylindrico-conical, firm and fleshy. 



Sans. Chwvywng, Clrwvika, ChMvee, CliMvikwng. 



Beng. Choee. 



Piper longum. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 333. t. 116. f. 1. 



Obs. Cattu-tirpali. Rheed. Mai. 7. p. 27. 1. 14. represents 

 a very different species, the fruit of which is also used over 

 the continent of India, and particularly in the western part 

 thereof, as long pepper, and is much cultivated in Bengal, 

 chiefly for its root, which the natives call P/ppwlrt. Wood- 

 ville's figure, in his Medical Botany, is very bad, for it an- 

 swers neither to this, nor P. longum, Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 

 161. which may be called the long pepper of the continent 

 of India. BlackwelPs fio-ure is still worse. 



5. P. sylvaticum. R. 



Leaves all petioled, broad-cordate, from five to seven nerv- 

 ed, obtuse ; lobes of the base large, equal, circular. Aments 

 erect, short-peduncled, columnar ; male flowers tetrandrous. 



A native of the mountains on the north-west border of Ben- 

 gal, where the natives call it Pahari peepul, or mountain 

 long pepper, and use it, both green and ripe, in their dishes. 

 In the Botanic garden it blossoms, and the berries ripen dur- 

 ing the rains. 



Root perennial. Stem or rather branches creeping- on the 

 ground, or rooting on trees like Ivy, and most of the East In- 

 dia species of pepper; all the young parts polished. Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, equally-cordate, obtuse, from five to seven- 

 nerved, smooth, from three to five inches long, by from two to 

 four broad. Petioles from one to two inches long grooved. Sti- 

 pules iaterfoliaceous, &c. as in the genus. Male aments leaf- 



