82 cxxiv. PIPERACE/E. ( J. D. Hooker.) 



10. P. caninumj Blumc in Verh. Satav. G-enools. xi. 214, f. 26, and 

 Enum. PL Jav.fasc. 1. 72 ; hirsute pubescent or glabrate, branches slender 

 terete, leaves petioled membranous ovate ovate-cordate or -lanceolate 

 acuminate rarely elliptic-lanceolate 3-5-nerved towards the base, male 

 spikes slender, fruiting slender, fruit very small, pedicel sometimes very 

 short. Gas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 341. P. Cubeba, Vahl Enum. i. 332 ; 

 Eoxb. FL Ind. i. 159; Ed. Carey fy Wall. i. 161; Wall. Cat. 6645; Nees 

 Plant. Med. t.'22. Cubeba canina, Miq. Comm. Phyt. 33, t. 3; Sysf. 

 Pip. 293, and FL Ind. Bat. i. 2. 449, and in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Sat. fasc. 

 v. 137. 



TENASSEEIM (or Andaman Islands ?), Heifer. MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. 

 PENANG, Wallich. DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



A rambling climber, more or less hirsute with flaccid hairs, rarely quite glabrous. 

 Leaves 2-4 by 1^-2 in., usually broadest at the base which is rarely unequal-sided, 

 nerves slender ; petiole -1 in., slender. Male spikes 2-3 in.; bracts adnate by a 

 broad base, stamens 2, anther-cells distinct. Fruiting spike i-l| in. ; peduncle 

 slender ; bracts peltate, villous. .Fruit % in. diam., pedicel variable in leugtb, always 

 shorter than the fruit. 



P. caninum proper ; branches glabrate, except the younger, leaves glabrous above, 

 finely pubescent beneath. 



Var. glabra; leaves quite glabrous. Tenasserim (or Andaman Islands), Heifer. 



Var. lanceolata; leaves elliptic-lanceolate finely acuminate very sparsely hairy 

 beneath, pedicel of fruit very short. P. Lonchites, Wall. Cat. 6644 B, in part (the 

 centre plant of the four on the sheet}. Penang, Wallich. Wallich tickets this 

 P. lanceolatum, Roxb., but Roxburgh's plant of that name is, I think, clearly 

 P. miniatum. 



Var. angustifolia, Miq. mss. ; leaves smaller linear-lanceolate 2-24 by i~t m 

 nearly glabrous. Malacca, Maingay (Kew Dlstrib. 1333/4). This appears the same 

 as Zollinger's No. 698 f. from Java, named Cubeba canina var. angustifolia, Miq. 

 Mant. Pip. 



Var. lanata ; branches and leaves beneath hirsute. P. lanatum, Eoxl. FL Ind. 

 i. 159; Ed. Carey fy Wall. i. 161; Wall. Cat. 6647 ; Oas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 

 341. P. Louchites, Wall. Cat. 6644 A, in part. P. Cubeba, Wall. Cat. 6645 (not 

 of Linn. f.). P. javanicum, Cas. DC. I. c. 343. Cubeba lanata, Miq. Syst. Pip. 

 298, and Fl. Ind. Eat. i. 2. 450. C. Lowong var. quintuplinervis, Miq. I. c. 298. 

 Penang, Wallich. 



Var. ? Thwaitesii; branches glabrous, leaves ovate-lanceolate glabrous or sparsely 

 pubescent beneath, fruiting spikes nearly glabrous, fruit very shortly pedicelled. 

 P. arcuatuin, Thwaites Emtm. 293, in part (not of Blume). P. arborescens, Thwaites 

 1. c. (not of Roxb.). P. Thwaitesii, Cas. DC. I. c. 357. P. bantamense, Cas. DC. 

 I. c. 362 (the Ceylon plant only}. Ceylon, Thwaites (C. P. 35" in part, and 2178). 



11. P. muricatum, Blume in Verh. Satav. Nat. G-enoots. xi. 219, f.l, 

 and Enum. PL Jav.fasc. i. 68; branches stout hirsute or glabrate, leaves 

 large membranous elliptic or elliptic-oblong acuminate 7-9-nerved sparsely 

 hairy above tomentocse beneath, female spike 5-6 in. stoutly pedicelled 

 tomentose, rachis stout, bracts peltate, fruit sessile and pedicelled. Miquel 

 Syst. Pip. 326 ; 111. Pip. 55, t. 55, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Sot. iv. 438, and 

 FL Ind. Bat. i. 2. 2454; Cas. DC. in Prodr. xv. 1. 341. P. birmanicum 

 . macrostachyum, Cas. DC. I. c. 338. 



MALACCA, Griffith. DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java, Borneo. 



Stem evidently stout and soft ; branches as thick as a goose-quill, roughly hairy. 

 Leaves 6-9 by 3^-6 in., base rounded or subcordate rarely subacute, equal or unequal ; 

 petiole i~3 in. Spike 1-2-sexual, erect or drooping ; peduncle 4 in.; bracts glabrous 

 above, subsessile, orbicular. Fruit unripe on thick pedicels, many imperfect, the 

 pedicel being truncate. " Seed, subglobose," Miquel.'he leaves are most variable 

 in form and pubescence. 



