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pnliKKae. Semen conforme. Embryo minatus in apice albuminis io- 

 vcola inclusas. 



Nomine Pippnl haec species in Silhet et adjacentibas montibus incbVena 

 incolis vernacole cognita est ; amenta loco Piperis longi usitata. 



8. Chavica Roxburghll. Piper longum orientale Bauhin 

 Pinax p. 412, Ray. Hist. p. 1343. P. longum Pistoloehiae 

 folio Pluckn. Altnag. p. 297. Piper longum Linn, ex cit. icon. 

 Rheedei. Fl. Zeyl. p. 12. Roxburgh Fl. Ind. Tom. I. p, I54 

 Hb. Heyne! {Wall. List. 6f)40 D.), Hb. Wight] {Wall. 6040 

 E,), P. sylvestre Herb. Hamilt.! {mas.), P. fallax Hort. BeroL? 

 an et Vahl.? Cutta Tirpali Rheede Hort. Mai. F. p. 27 

 Gaule fruticuloso, sterili decumbente, florifero adscendenli- 

 erecto dicholome ramoso, subtilissime hirtello deraura ffla- 

 brato, foliis inferioribus lorige petiolatis ovato-rotundatis lato- 

 cordatis, acutis v^ rotundato-obtusis, seplemnerviis^ superioribas 

 breriter petiolatis summisque sessilibus araplexicaulibus obloneis 

 inaequali-cordatisquinquenerviis, omnibus crasso-merabranaceis 

 subtilissime pellucido-punctatis , petiolis nervisque imprimis 

 subtus, praeserlim ad basin subtililer hirtellis, demum p-labra- 

 tis, amentis masc. filiformi-cylindricis cum pedunculo folium 

 subaequantibus, fern, crassioribus plus duplo brevioribus pe- 

 dunculum circiler aequantibus, stigmatibus 3 — 4 lanceolatis. 



Herb. Willd. n. 696 tol. 1 ccrte! 



Icon. Pluck. I. c. Tab. 104 lig. 4. Rbeede 1. c. Tab. 14. Nees ab Esenb 

 oir„ Pfl. Tom. I. 



Habitat in Bengalia frequenter culta, el spontanea inter 

 frulices (on the banks of water courses) in montosis Circar 

 (Roxb.! 1. c. et in Herb. De Less.), Calcutta (Wallich! ibid.) 

 prope Karikal (Perrollet! ibid.), Pondicheri ubi Tipilika vo- 

 catur (Herb. De Less.!), Gualpara (Wallich List 6640 C. mas. 

 Hamilt..'), Nihinaghur (ibid.), in ripa fl. Irawaddi ad Henzeda 

 et Prome (Wall.! List. n. 6640 G. ulraraque stirpem), Sillet fn. 

 6640 F.), Hb. Madras. (Wall. List! 6640 B.), Ceylon (Linn! 

 fl. Zeyl.). 



Nomina vemacula: sanscr. Krishna, Oopukoolya, Videhee 

 Magudhee, Chupula, Kuna, Ooshuna, Pippulee, Shoundee, 

 Kola; bengaL Pippul; tiling. Pippul-chittoo (plan la), Pip- 

 puloo (amenta). 



