146 cxiii. PIPERACE.E (baker AND V RIGHT). [Pij)er, 



8. p. capense, Li7in. f. Suppl. 00. A shrub, erect or more or 

 less climbing. Branches terete, swollen at the nodes, glabrous. Leaves 

 ovate or more rarely elliptic-ovate, equilateral or nearly so, shortly 

 acuminate, rounded or shortly cordate at the base, 5-7-nerved, mem- 

 branous, pellucid-dotted, about 4 in. long, 2J-3 in. wide, glabrous 

 above, usually villous on the under-surface of the nerves especially 

 towards their base ; petiole channelled above, about 1 in. long, glabrous; 

 stipules lanceolate, membranous, deciduous. Catkins terminating short 

 lateral branches which falsely appear to spring from the middle of the 

 petiole, l|-2 in. long in flower, cylindrical; peduncles about 9 lin. 

 long; bracts peltate, glabrous except at the base of the very short 

 stalk. Stamens 3 or 2 ; anther-cells separated by a wide connective. 

 Ovary ovoid ; stigmas 2, recurved. Fruit obtuse, compressed, sessile.^ 

 Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 443 ; C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 339, 

 and in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 224 ; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 150. P. Volkensii, 

 C. DC. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 225. Coccohryon ccipense, Miq. Syst. Piper. 

 343; and in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xxi. Suppl. 50, t. Gl. Cubeba 

 capensis, Miq. Syst. Piper. 303. rejieromia capensis, Loudon, Hort. Brit, 

 ed. i. 13 ; Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, ii. 301. 



Upper Guinea. Caitiorooiis : Cameroon Mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 2015! 

 Johnston, 59 ! Buea, Preuss, G15 ! Dusen^ 409, Zenker, 265. Fernando Po, 

 1300 ft., Mann, 299 ! 



Wile Iiand. Uganda: Mawokoto, 3900 ft., Brown, 195! Wimi Valley, 

 Kuwenzori, 7000-8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7909 ! 



Itower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, 4000-7000 ft., Mann ! 



Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara ; Lutindi, Hoist, 3281! 

 Derema, Volkens, 130 ! 139 ! ScheJJler, 89 ! Hoist, 2269 ! and without precise 

 locality, Buchwald, 62 ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; various localities, 

 KirTc ! Whyte ! Buchanan, 762 ! 



Var. magmfolium, C. DC. in Enpl. Jalirb. xix. 224. Blade of the lower leaves 

 5^ in. long, 4^- in. wide, of upper 3J in. long and wide. 



Upper Guinea. Canieroons : near Bnea, Preuss, 615. 



Also in South Africa. This species recpiires further investigation in the field ; 

 the habit being bo diffei-ently described by various collectors would suggest that 

 several species are included here. 



4. P. MoUeri, C. DC. in Bol. Soc. Jh-oi. x. 153. Glabrous. 

 Branches terete. Lower leaves rotundate-ovate, up to ll-nerved and 

 equally cordate at the base, 4| in. long ; upper leaves ovate, 7-9-nerved, 

 equally cordate or rounded at the base, 4 in. long, all acutely cuspidate, 

 when dry dull green, membranous, pellucid-dotted ; petiole rather long, 

 sheathing beyond the middle. Peduncle about twice as long as the 

 petiole ; catkins shorter than the leaf -blade ; rhachis slightly pilose ; 

 bracts orbicular, peltate, subsessile. Stamens 2 ; anthers longer than 

 the filaments. Berry subglobose, with the apex of the rhachis intruded ; 

 stigmas 2, short. 



Xiower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas : Monte Caffe, Nova Moka, 2780-4250 ft., 

 Mailer <Sf Quintas. 



Said to resemble P. sylvestre. Lam., from Mauritius and Tropical Asia, but to 

 differ in the shape of the bracts and the number of stamens. 



