204. CXI. PIPERACE®. [ Piper. 
— m pen, 3 to 5 in. long, the coils of flowers 
by the adnate bracts. Anthers exserted. 
Fon ora 5. P. triandrum. 
. Male spikes no dense, 1 to 1i in. long. Bracts piss 
closely imbricate. Females ovoid-o blong, d in. 
Leaves vellior coriaceous : . P. hederaceum. 
l. P. subpe nau Willd. ; Cas. DC. Prod. xvi. i. 333. A “large 
herb or shrub of 3 to 5 ft., " glabrous or with a ql pubescence on 
the petioles and nerves of the leaves and on the inflorescence. Leaves 
didi: of } to l in., and often common aps ie iud in the same axil, 
the spikes "e dense, l to 3 in. eva Bracts peltate, the terminal 
lamine triangular or semilunar, hirsute at the margin. Flowers her- 
maphrodite. Berries obovate- 3-gonous, glandular-pubescent.—Poto- 
morphe PES Miq., Wight Ic. t. 19 
Queen Rockingham bay, Dallachy. —Widely spread over the tropical regions 
of both de m and the Old World. 
lsum, Forst. ; Far DC. Prod. xvi. i. 334. A small bushy 
earen shrub in Lord Howe Island, OMNE, 90 ft. in other stations. 
eaves petiolate, orbicular-cordate, s ortly acuminate, 7- or 9-nerve 
m the base 0 4 igmeter, M in some stations to » ovate. 
eren Lord Howe's Island, M'Gillivray, n. 726 (the specimen numbe red 
970, xc. eme collection, quoted in the Pr odromus, as from the same e station, i8 
Reoul 1 land in the Kermadoc group).— The species extends over New Zea m": 
Norfolk bied and several of the South Pacific islands. 
Fetan, Amsterd. ser. 2, ds A “tall doltoincna plant climbing 
against trees in dense forests." Leaves on the barren mere usuall 
broadly ovate, equally cordate, acuminate, 7-nerved, 3 to 4 in. € 
nch 
on flowering branches not so broa 1 unequal at the base, scarcely 
cordate, an ufi li- or septupli-nerve pikes unisexua eaf- 
v Os the males $ to nearly lin. long, on slender peduncles rather 
shorter than the spike, very dense, 1 to 14 lines diameter. Bracts or- 
bicular-peltate, the lami uch undulate when the flowers are fully 
o 2 or 9, shortly exserted. Fruiting- spike not longer 
than the erries ovoid, red, 2 to ; lines ig 0 on stipe at 
