158 BlANDRiA TRIGYNlA. Piper, 



meiit of the hot season the roots are to be carefully covered with 

 straw to preserve them against the heat of the sun. Tlie plants 

 should be set about five feet asunder. Large quantities of this pepper 

 and also of the roots are exported to Bombay, and Suiat ; where 

 both are in great demand, the first for culhiary, the latter for medi- 

 cinal purposes. The Ryots in this part of the country, usu Jiy sow 

 radishes, or barley, or plant brinjah {Solaimm melongena), in the in- 

 termediate space between the plants. 



4. V.jOkaba. W. Hunter in Asiat. Res. h. 391. 



Shrubby, creeping. Leaves short-petioled, ov.-te-lanceolate, base 

 uae-qual, scarcely triple-nerved : amenta leaf-opposed, erect, cylin- 

 drico-conical, firm and tleshy. 



Sans, ^■^y Chu\yung, xfr-I^.j Chu^^la, ^^-^, Chuvee, ^"^-^f 

 Chnv/kifng. 



JBeng. Choce. 



Piper-loiigum. Humph, amh. 5. p. 333, t. llG. /. 1. 



Ohs. Cattu-tlrpali. Rlieed. mah 7. p. £7- t. 14. represents a very 

 different i-peeie-, the fruit of which is also used over the continent 

 of India, and particularly in the western part thereof, as long jep- 

 per,aud is nmch cultivated in Bengal, chiefly for its root, which the 

 natives call Pippula. W odville's figure, in his Medical Botany, is 

 very'bad, for it answers neither to this, nor P. longum, Linn. .Sp. Pi. 

 ed. IVilld. I6i. \\hich may be called the long pepper of the conthient 

 of India. Blackwell's figure is still worse. 



5. P. sylvaticum. R. 



Leaves all peiioled, broad-cordate, from five to seven-nerved, ob- 

 tuse; lobes of the base large, equal, circular. Anietds erect, short-pe- 

 duncled, columnar, male flowers tetrandrous. 



A native of the mountains on the North-west bolder of Bengal, 

 where the natives ca.I it Pahari peepul, or mountain long-pep|.er 

 and use it, both green and ripe, in their dishes. Jn the Botanic Gur- 

 den it blossomS; and the terries ripen during the rains. 



