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opposed, short-peduncled, or columnar, slender. Scales one- 

 flowered. Corol none. Filaments generally four, oval, fleshy, 

 very short. Anthers one-celled. Germ none. Female contents 

 on a different plant, leaf-opposed, short, peduncled, cylin- 

 dric. Germ oval, one-celled, ovula single, erect, that is, at- 

 tached directly to the bottom of the cell. 



C. P. peepuloides. R. 

 . Leaves equally-ovate, and ovate-lanceolate, short-petioled, 

 from three to five-nerved, smooth, acuminate. Aments sub- 

 sessile, cylindric. 



Pipptd the vernacular name in Silhet, and on the adjacent 

 range of mountains where it is indigenous, and considered the 

 Pippitl, or long pepper of that country, and as such is used 

 in medicine, &c. It differs specifically, no doubt, from the 

 long pepper plant of lower Bengal, as well as from that of 

 Rumphius, called P. Chaba by Dr. W. Hunter, who found 

 it common On the Island of Pulo-Pinang. [t is immediately 

 known from P. longum by the shape of the leaves, as well 

 by their being all equally petioled ; and from P. Chaba, by 

 both sides of the base being equal, or nearly so ; whereas in 

 Chaba the lower side is much larger and longer. 



Root perennial. Stems and alternate branches creeping-, 

 young shoots smooth. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from 

 ovate-oblong to lanceolate, entire, acuminate; generally five- 

 nerved, of which the exterior two are minute, and when 

 absent the leaf is perfectly three-nerved, from three to five 

 inches long-, by from one to three broad. Stipules stem-clasp- 

 ing and petiolary. The female aments have only been found, 

 which induces me to think this species is dicecous, as most of 

 them are ; they are short-peduncled, solitary, and directly 

 opposite to the leaves. Berries smaller than in common 

 black pepper (P. nigrum) obliquely oval ; pulp in small quan- 

 tity, one-celled. Seeds solitary, conform to the berry. Peris- 

 perm conform to the seed. Embryo minute, lodged in a lit- 

 tle hollow in the apex of the perisperm. 



