912 cviii. PiPERACE.^. [Piper 



streams Quango and Delamboa, rather rare ; fl, and f r. end of April 

 1855. No. 501. In fl. No. 6707- A herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; nodes 

 reddish ; leaves very large, cordate, subpeltate ; spikes whitish, 

 dichotomously cymose. By streams near Sange ; fr. April 1855. Coll.. 

 Carp. 939. 



PuNCiO Andongo. — In the shady forests of Mata de Pungo in the 

 praesidium, sparingly ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 502. 



Welwitsch saw the plant also about Muxaulo. 



2. P. guineense Thonn. in Danske Yid. Selsk. iii. p. 39 (1828) ; 

 C. DC, I.e., p. 343. 



P. Clusii C. DC, I.e., p. 340; Picalho, PI. Uteis, p. 245. 



GoLUNGo Alto. — A suffruticose herb, almost a shrub, climbing 

 high, or a shrub with its trunk an inch thick at the base and climbing 

 to a great height on trees attaching itself by means of root-like fibres 

 which are produced on all sides ; stem nodose ; leaves subcoriaceous^ 

 glossy, faintly green ; drupes baccate, aromatic. In very dense 

 elevated primitive forests in Sobato do Quilombo ; young plants, 

 without fl. or fr. Feb. 1856 ; in the elevated forests of Quilombo- 

 Quiacatubia, without fl. beginning of July 1855. No. 510. A robust 

 shrub ; trunk 2\ in. in diameter at the base ; with adventitious roots 

 climbing high on Monodora Myristica Dun. (Welw. herb. no. 773, 

 etc.) ; berries brick -red. In the forests of Sobato de Bumba, and 

 more abundantly at Cucauengui in Sobato de Quilombo-Quiacatubia ; 

 fr. middle of July 1856. No. 508. A peppery shrub, climbing to a 

 great height. In the forests of Quilombo-Quiacatubia, 1856 ; specimens 

 of the stem. Coll. Carp. 983. A tall climbing shrub ; berries brick- 

 red ; seeds strongly aromatic-acrid ; fr. 1856. Coll. Carp. 940. 



Island of St, Thomas. — Berries round, orange in colour, called 

 "pimenta" (pepper). In dense forests at Fazenda de Monte Caffe ; 

 fr. Dec. 1860. No. 509 and Coll. Carp. 941. 



This plant is called " Jihefo " or " Jihefu," pronounced Shihffu,. 

 and furnishes true pepper a little smaller than the Indian pepper. 

 The negroes call Urera sp. (Welw. herb. nos. 6268, 6279) wild or 

 bastard Jihefo. 



2. PEPEROMIA Pniz & Pa von ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PI. iii. p. 132. 



1. P. pellucida H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. i. p. G4 (1815) ;, 

 C DC in DC Prodr. xvi. 1, p. 402 (1869). 



Piper pellucidum L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 30 (1753). 



Ambriz. — In the rocky forest between Ambriz and Quizembo, 

 100 to 150 ft. alt. ; Nov. 1857. Only one specimen saved during 

 flight under pursuit by the Musulos. Apparently this species. No. 506- 



Cazfa'Go. — A succulent, annual herb ; stems more or less decumbent 

 or ascending, pale green, almost glassy-hyaline, angular, the angles 

 decurrent from the sheaths of the leaves, narrowly winged ; leaves 

 somewhat fleshy, green above, greenish white beneath, beset with very 

 slender papillae or hairs ; ripe seeds fairly minute, blackish, almost 

 precisely spherical. In very shady primitive forests by streams im 

 Serra de Muxaulo ; rather rare ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1855. No. 504. 



2. P. exigua Miq. Syst. Piper, p. 77 (1843). 



Piper exiguuni Blume in Verb. Batav. Gen. xi. p. 232 (182G)„ 

 Micropiper exiguur/i Miq. Comm. Phyt. p. 55, t. 9, f. d (1840). 



