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Habitat in Javae regionibus montanis, inprimis ad flumi- 

 num ripas (Blume ! I. c. et in Herb. Lugd. Bat.) 



P. sulcato proxima species, statura majore et foliis basi oblique 

 cordatis, anne satis distincta. Folia inferiora 13 cent, longa, 7 lata, 

 hasi tere aequali leviter cordata , apice breviter acuminata , parum inae- 

 quilatera ; costae utrinque 2 panlJo supra basin unaque intra medium 

 ortae, nervulusque tenuissimus, ad basin cito deUtescens. Anastomoses 

 tenues. Folia superiora 9 — 10 cent, longa, 4 — 5 lata, basi obliqua 

 subcordata, costis omnibus magis approximatis, magis inaequilatera , 

 oblique acuminata, acnmine acuto. Compages membranacca, pellucido- 

 punctulata , supra atro-viridis glabra nervo costisque lineata, subtus glau- 

 cescens , sub lente albido-lepidota , pilis tenuissimis in nervis versus basin. 

 Petioli 1 cent, longi vel breviores, sulcati, puberuli vel sabglabri (sec. 

 sp. stcr. jav. Herb. Lugd. Bat.) 



14. P^iper muricatum Blume! in Verh. Bat. Genoots, 

 Tom XI. .p. 219. Enum. pi. Javae fasc. I. p. 68. Gaule 

 fruticuloso erecto, ramulis petiolis foliis subtus hirtis vel sub- 

 toraentoso-pubescentibus , his membranaceis subtilissime pel- 

 lucido-punctatis , inferioribus subovatis acutis basi aequali 

 subcordatis, superioribus oblongls acutis acurainatisque, iuae- 

 quilateris, basi attenuata inaequali leviter excisis, illis undeno- 

 nerviis, his quintupli-septuplinerviis, amentis hermaphroditis 

 breviter pedunculatis erectis , bracteis peltatim sessilibus vel 

 brevissiine pedicellatis aurantiacis subpuberulis, stigraatibus 

 3-5. 



Icon. Dlume 1. c. fig. 1 genital., fig. 28 fob xylogr. 



Habitat in Javae regionibus montanis^ copiose in Salak monte, 

 ubi incolis Sirie Tjouk vocatur (Blume! 1. c. et in Herb. Lugd- 

 Bat.) 



Frutex tri-quadripedalis , caulibas sublignescentibns teretibas, me- 

 duUosis, subllexuosis , pauci-ramosis , ram is bit'urcatis anguloso-teretibus 

 patentim hirto-tomeutosis. Internodia 3 — 5 cent, longa , nodis tumidis 

 inacqualihus. Folia erectiuscula petiolis teretibus, canaliculatis , basi 

 utrinque stipulis cito dilitescentibus auctis , patenti-hirtulis, inferioribus 

 4 — 2| cent,, superioribus 1 — \^ longis sustenta , inferiora multo ma- 

 jora et latiora, ovata, ovalia, acuta, aeqailatera, basi subcordata, 18 — 22 

 cent, longa, 9 — 15 lata, superiora magis oblonga, acuminata vel 

 acuta, basi attenuata inaequali subcordatim excisa, 16 cent, longa, 7 

 lata, membranacca vel subcoriaa'o-mcmbranacca, ijiiam subtilissime 



