Piper.] cxxiv. PIPERACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 8-1 



Sect. II. Cubeba. Spikes solitary ; flowers dioecious ; bracts of female 

 spikes peltate. Fruit contracted at the base into a pedicel. 



* Quite glabrous (see also P; caninum var. glabra}> 



6. P. ribesioides, Wall. PL As. Rar. i. 79, t. 9, and 'Gat. 6637; 

 quite glabrous, very robust, leaves 8-12 in. very coriaceous linear- or ovate- 

 oblong acuminate base deeply cordate 5-9-nerved at the very base 3-nerved 

 higher up, petiole 1-2 in., fruiting spike short stout, pedicel glabrous as 

 long as the globose apiculate fruit. Cas\ DC. in Prods: 342. Cubeba 

 Wallichii, Miq. Syst. Pip. 289, and III. Pip. 47, t. 46, 47. 



TENASSERIM, Heifer, Falconer. PENANG and SINGAPORE, Wallich, Maingay. 

 BURMA ; at Chappedong, Wallich. 



A very stout climber; branches pale, as thick as a goose- quill, deeply furrowed 

 when dry. Leaves variable,, sometimes 5 in. broad, basal sinus 1-1| in. deep, lobes 

 rounded equal or not ; nerves very strong beneath, nervules slender ; petiole very 

 stout; young leaves small, lanceolate, .subsagittately cordate. Spikes 1-3 in. ; bracts 

 short coriaceous, rachis of spike stout rigid ; bracteoles together seuiiluuar. Fruit 

 | in. diam. 



7. P. sumatranum, Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 343; quite glabrous, 

 very robust, leaves 8-12 in. very coriaceous oblong or linear-oblong acumi- 

 nate 5-7-nerved at the very shortly cordate base and 3-nerved higher up, 

 petiole 1-1 ^. in., fruiting spike 2-3 in. very stout, pedicel glabrous as long 

 as the globose apiculate fruit is broad. Cubeba surnatrana, Miq. Comm. 

 Phyl. 42, t. 5 a; 8yst..Plp. 290, and in Fl. 2nd. Sat. i. 2. 448 and Suppl 

 186. P. pedicellosum, Wall. Cat. 6646 B ?. 



TENASSERIM and ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Heifer. PENANG, Wallich. SINGAPORE, 

 Maingay.-. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Very, closely allied to P. ribesioides, and perhaps only a state of that plant, which 

 the fruit entirely resembles, but the leaves are narrower, more contracted at the base 

 with a very small short sinus. The male flowers are unknown in both. Possibly 

 they are both large forms of P. Cubeba, L. fil. 



8. P. pedicellosum, Wall. Cat. 6646 A; quite glabrous, robust, 

 leaves 2-4 in. very coriaceous elliptic or ovate-cordate obtuse 5-7-nerved 

 near the base, petiole ^-% in., fruiting spikes 1-1 1 in. very stout, pedicel 

 hoary as long as the subovoid' obtuse fruit.. Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 343 

 Cubeba Neesii, Miq, Syst. Pip. 292, and Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 2. 449. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. 



This resembles P. Cubeba, Linn. f.,.but has hoary pedicels of the fruit. The 

 smaller leaves, short petiole, and fruit, distinguish it from P. ribesioides & 

 sumatranum. 



9. P. Griffith!!, Cas. DC. in Seem. Journ. Sot. 1866, 163, and in 

 Prodr. xvi. 1. 343 ; quite glabrous, branches slender, leaves thinly coria- 

 ceous ovate or elliptic 3-5-nerved at the base and 3-nerved higher up, 

 fruiting spikes 6-8 in., pedicels slender longer than the very small globose 

 fruit. 



ASSAM, Masters, Griffith. 



Branches terete or obscurely furrowed when dry. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3| in., base 

 rounded or subacute ; nerves very slender, nervules faint ; petiole \-\ in. Female 

 sp ikes slender ; bracts obscure in fruit, cup-shaped, adnate to the glabrous rachis 

 bracteoles short. Fruits numerous, globose, ^ in. diam. 



** Leaves more or less pubescent beneath (glabrous in vars. of P. 

 caninum). 



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