Pipei:] CXIII. PIPERACEiE (baker and WRIGHT). 145 



295 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 95. Ileckeria umhellnta, H. suhpeltata 

 and II. sidcefoliaf Kunth in Linnsea, xiii. 5G9-571. Pothomorphe sub" 

 peltata, Miq. Syst. Piper. 213 ; and in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xxi. 

 SuppL 29, t. 2(j, fig. B; Wight, Ic. t. 1925. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : near Regent, Scott-Mliof, 4077 ! Mount 

 Yamba, Scarcies Valley, Scott-Elliot, 4287 1 Liberia : Since Basin, Whyte ! 

 Ashanti : Assin-yan-Kumassi, Cummins, 149 1 Lagos, Millen, 113! Cameroons: 

 Cameroon Mountain, 3000 ft., Mann, 1272 ! Fernando Po, Vogel, 53 ! Mann, 70 ! 



la'ortb Central. Ubangi Territory: Krebedje, CAei'aZte^-, 6006 ! 



Wile Iiand. Niamniam: at Xakofob River, Schweinfurth^ 3076! 3222 ! 



]bower Guinea. Gaboon : Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 206 ! Angola : Golungo 

 Alto ; forests by the Cuango and Delamboa Rivers, JFelioitsch, .501 ! 6707 I Pungo 

 Andongo ; in forests of Mata de Pungo in the Praesidium, Welwitsch, 502 ! 



South Central. Congo Free State; Bangala, on the Congo, 1000 ft., Hens^ 

 355! 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Usambara, Hoist, 2267 ! 3310 ! Buch- 

 wald, 67a. Karagwe ; Bukoba, ex JEngler ; East Uluguru, Stuhlmann, 9048. 



Also in the Mascarene Ishmds, Tropical Asia and Tropical America. 



2. P. guineense, Schum. d' Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PZ. 19. A 

 glabrous shrub, climbing to a height of 30-40 ft. by means of densely 

 hairy adventitious rootlets. Leaves ovate, acuminate, equally or un- 

 equally cordate to obtusely cuneate at the base, 4-5 in. long, 2J-3 in. 

 wide, sometimes pubescent on the under-side of the nerves, otherwise 

 glabrous ; lateral nerves about 2 on each side of the lower half of the 

 midrib; petiole 2-9 lin. long. Spikes solitary, leaf-opposed, 1-2 (in 

 fruit up to 4) in. long, shortly peduncled ; bracts rotundate, peltate, 

 glabrous or slightly hairy beneath. Stigmas 3. Fruit globose, shortly 

 mucronate, about \\ lin. in diam. when drv, on a pedicel 3 lin. long. — 

 C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 343 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 912 ; 

 var. thomeanum, C. DC. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 152. P. Chcsii, C. DC. 

 in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 340; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 245. P. leonense, C. DC. 

 in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 342. Ciobeba Clusii, Miq. Syst. Piper. 304 ; 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 434. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: various localities, Scott -Elliot, 4003 1 4688! 

 4875 I Don ! Gold Coast : Eastern Akin, Johnson, 720 ! 745 ! Aquapim, Rumsey, 

 11 ! and without precise locality, Johnson, 175 ! Southern Nigeria: Lagos, Millen, 

 65 ! lyere, Baioodu, 195 ! Brass, Barter, 2076 I Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter ! 

 Cameroons: Bipinde, Ze?i*er, 938 ! 1912 12414! Y^Avomhi, Preuss, 4^17 \ Fernando 

 Po, Roscher, 917 ! Barter ! Mann, 162 ! 



KTortli Central. Ubangi Territory: Bangui, C/^emZ^er, 5229 ! 



xrile Iiand. Dar Fertit: jycm (}\\i{yv\, Schweinfurth, \n. 120 \ Niamniam: 

 Boddo River, Schweinfurth, 3842 ! near Kulenjo, Schweinfurth, 2949 ! Uganda : 

 Entebbe, 3900-4000 ft., Mahon ! West Ankole, 5000 ft., Bawe, 359! Kampala, 

 Scott-Elliot, 72i6 I 7284! Mabira Forest, Chagwe, Vssher,b6\ 



Iiower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Welwitsch, 509 ! Moller, Quintas. 

 Gaboon : Munda, Sibange Farm, Sot/atix, 46 ! Angola : Golungo Alto ; various 

 localities, Welwitsch, 508 ! 510 ! 



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