Piper. DIANDRIA TRIGYNIA^ \ 161 



dry weather. Every history of India describes, and every body 

 knows, the use the Hindoos of al! ranks make of the leaves of this 

 plant. 



8. P. Cubeha. Gait. Carp. u.67.Lin7i. Sp. PI. ed. W'dld. ^5g, 



Shrubby, creeping. Leaves petioled, ovate-lanceolate, scarcely 

 triple-nerved. Aments leaf-opposed, on peduncles longer than the 

 petioles. Berries pedicelled. 



Piper canninum. Humph, amh. 5. t. QS.J". 2. 



A native of Prince of Wales Island and the countries to the east- 

 ward of the Bay of Bengal. 



9- P. lariatum. R. 



Creeping, every part very woolly. Leaves petioled, ovate-lanueo- 

 late, scarcely three-nerved. Aments leaf-opposed, one-peduucled, as 

 long as the petioles. Berries pedicelled, clavate. 



A native of the Malay Archipelago. 



30. P. methysticum. Linn. Sp. PL ed. Willd. l6l. 



Leaves short-petioled, from salient to obliquely re-entering, cor- 

 date, from seven to nine-nerved, entire, smooth. 



A native of the M alay Archipelago. There is no doubt but this is 

 the Sirium decumamtn. Rumph . amh. 5. t. 27, but whether it be the 

 South sea Island intoxicating species, I cannot take upon me to say. 

 The leaves are often a foot long, by six or eight inches broad, on 

 sheathing petioles not more than an inch long. I have not seen the 

 fruit. 



ll.P, arloresccns. R. 



Arboreous, creeping.^ Leaves petioled, ovate-elliptic, acute, five- 

 nefved. Aments leaf-opposed, long, slender, cylindric, on peduncles 

 about as long as the petioles. 



Sirium arborescens tertium. Rumph. amb. 5. t. 28. y. 1. 



A native of the Molucca Islands. 



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