Piper. DIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. ^ 159 



Root perennial. — Stem or rather branches creeping on the ^round 

 or tooting on trees like Ivy, and most of ihe East India species of pep- 

 per ; all the voung parts polished. — Leaves alternate, petioled, equal 

 ]y-cordate, obtuse, from tive to seven-nerved, smooth, from three to 

 five inches long, by from two to four broad. — Petioles from one to two 

 inches long, grooved. — Stipules interfoliaceous,&,c. as in the genus. — 

 Ma/e amenta leaf-opposed, short-peduncled, or columnar, slender. 

 Scales one-fiowered.. — Carol none. — Filaments generuiiy four, oval, 

 ileshv, very short. Aiilhers one celled.' — Germ none. — Fi^male 

 aments on a different plant, K af opposed, short-peduncled, cylindric. 

 — Genu oval, oiie-celled, ovula sijigle, erect, that is, attached direct- 

 ly to the bottom of the cell. 



6. V.peepuloides. R. 



Leaves equaliy-ovate, and ovate-lanceolate, short petioled, fiom 

 three to live-nerved, smooth, acuminate. ^/;/e;ifssub-sesai!e, cylindric. 



Pippul the vernacular name in Silhet, and on the adjacent ranoe 

 of mountains ^here it is indigenous, and considered the Pippul, 

 or lovg-pepper of that country, and as such is used in medicine, 

 &c. It dihers specitically, no doubt, from the long-pepper plant of 

 ■lower Bengal, as well as from that of Rumphius, called P. Chaha 

 by Dr. W. Hunter, who found it common on the Island of Pulo- 

 Pinang. It is immediately known from P. lougu/n by the shape 

 of the leaves, as well as by their being all equally petioled ; and 

 from P. Chaha, by both sides of the base being equal, or near- 

 ly so ; whereas in Chaha the lower side is much larger and !on<^e,\ 



Rorit perennial. — Stems and alternate branches creeping, youn"- 

 shoots smooth. — Leaves alternate, short-petioled, from ovate-ob- 

 long, to lanceolate, entire, acuminate ; generally five-nerved, of which 

 the exterior two are minute, and when absent the leaf is perfectly 

 three-nerved, frnmtlireetofiveincheslong,by from otjcto three broad. 

 —Stipules stem rlaspiinj, and petiolary.— The Female aments have 

 only been found, which induces me io think this speci.s is dioe- 

 cous, as most of them are; they are short-peduncled, solitaiy, and 

 directly opposite to the leaves.— i^crrzcs smaller than in common 



