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AdnoL Ad haiic vel affinein speciein referejiduin videlur: 

 Piper grande Vahl Eclog. II. p. 3. Tab. XI. Foliis infe- 



rioribus cordalo-ovatis, superioribus oblongis laevibus, amentia 



folio brevioribus. 



Ffulex in ins. Luoon et St. Martha crescens. — ND. spresgei. 



Syst. I. p. 11]. Novam Granadam patriain praedicat. 



30. Chavlca majuscula. Sirium dccnmanwn Rumpk. 

 Herb. Amb. Tom. V. p. 45. Piper decumanum Linn, quoad 

 syn. Humph. P. methysticum Roxb. Fl. ind. Tom. I. p. 159. 

 P. majusculum Blume! in Ferh. Batav. Genoots. Tom. XI. 

 p. 210. Enum. pi. Javae fasc. I. p. 71. Fruticosa, scandens, 

 foliis merabranaceis , obsoletissime peliucido-punclulalis, gla- 

 bris, elliptico-oblongis acutis vel subacumlnatis, apice ipso 

 oblusiusculo, basi inaequalilcr cordalis, rnulli- vel raultipli* 

 nerviis, slipula oppositifolia magna lanceolata convoluta, pe* 

 dunculis petiolo multo longioribus, amentis elongalis, masc. 

 filiformibus , fern, crassis, bracteis pedicellato-peltatis, pedi- 

 cello floccoso, ovario obovato-obpyramidalo, glabro , stigmali- 

 bus 3 — 4 oblusis brevibus. 



icon. Rumph. 1. c. Tab. 27 (minus accarata teste ipsa cli-scriptione). 



Habitat Amboinae in sylvis lucidis, horlis deseiiis, sed 

 inprimis locis sylvaticis circa liltus, juxta arborum tr uncos 

 scandens (Ruraph. 1. c), ibid. (Labillardicre ! in Herb. De 

 Less. Hb. Vent.!), in Javae regionibus montanis, ex. c. ad mon- 

 ies Salak, Burangrang (Blume! 1. c. ct in Herb. Lugd. Bat). 

 Malaice Siri Talan, amboin. Ammelaun Tallan, sic dictum 

 ab avc Tallan, cum cujus extensis alis haec folia comparant, 

 javanice Aroy Kamang vocalur. 



Quodsi solam iconom rcmpBii intuearis, dubia moveri possent, an pi. 

 Blumeana revera cum ca kcmphii congrucret; descriptio autem Ram- 

 pbiana nulla bac de re dubia relinquit. 



Species, praecedenli et sequcnti arete cognata atque pariter ac illae foliis 

 amplis pulchris insignis. Caul is scandens, basi digitum crassus, cylin- 

 dricus, lignosus, cortice hie illic soluto subrimoso, intus meduUosus, 

 nodoso-articulatus, e nodis subinde radicans et ita arbores radicellis cor' 

 lice infixis adscendcns, 8— 10-i)cdalis. Internodia suprcma 5 cent, cir- 

 citer longa anguloso-tcrctia , laevia, glabra. Folia ptula, pctiohs 

 2- tere 2§ cent, longis subteretibus , sulcatis, glabris, liasi utrinquc 

 slipula brevi angusta . cito dclitcsccnlc auctis sustcnta , siiporiora lalo- 



