Piper.] cxxiv. PIPERACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 85 



17. P. Betle, Linn. Sp. PI. 28; quite glabrous, or with the petioles 

 puberulous, stem and branches stout climbing compressed when dry, leaves 

 large coriaceous petioled obliquely ovate-oblong or rounded ovate-cordate 

 5-7-nerved, base often unequal, petiole %-lk in., male spikes 3-6 in., female 

 loiig-peduncled, fruiting stout 1-5 in. pendulous. Hunter in As. Res. ix. 

 390 ; Vahl Enum. i. 328 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 158, and Ed. Carey # Wall. i. 

 166 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 89 ; Wall. Cat. 6652 A ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3132; Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 359; Burm. Fl. Ind. 14, and Fl. Zeyl. 

 t. 82, f. 2. P. Siriboa, Linn. Sp. PL 20 ; Hunter I. c. 391 ; Vahl I. c. 332. 

 P. Betle var. Siriboa, Cas. DC. 1. c. P. peepuloides, Wall. Cat. 6'650 C. 

 P. Chavya, Ham. Cas. DC. I. c. Chavica Betle, Miq. Syst. Pip. 224, and 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 439 ; Wight Ic. t. -2926. C. Siriboa, Miq. I. c. 228, in 

 Hook. Land. Journ. Bot. iv. 433, and in Fl.-Ind. Bat. i. 1. 438; Thwaites 

 Enum. 292. C. Ohuvya, Miq. Syst. Pip. 267, and III. Pip. 42, t. 39. 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. vii. 29, t. 15. 



Cultivated in the hotter and damper parts of INDIA, and CEYLON, and in the 

 Malay Islands. 



Apparently a larger and stouter plant than the other species of this section, with 

 more coriaceous usually broadly ovate leaves, sometimes 4-5 in. diam. ; spikes longer 

 and longer-peduncled ; fruit ^-^ in diam., very fleshy and often confluent into a 

 cylindric fleshy red mass. P. Chuvya and Siriboa are, I suppose, large-leaved cultivated 

 forms ; the latter is described as having pubescent young leaves, which I do not ob- 

 serve, though the petioles are sometimes, but not always, puberulous. 



18. P. miniatum, Blume in Verh. Bat. Genoots. xi. 166, and Enum. 

 PI. Jav. fasc. i. 65 ; quite glabrous, branches rigid terete, nodes much 

 swollen, leaves very shortly petioled large coriaceous elliptic-oblong or -lan- 

 ceolate caudate-acuminate 5-nerved from the very base, spikes very long 

 erect most dense-fld., fruit very minute. Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 354. 

 P. auriculatum, Blume II. c. 171 and 66. P. glandulosum, Opiz in Presl 

 Bel. Hank. 158. P. arborescens, Wall. Cat. 6648 A. P. lanceolatum, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind.i. 159. P. Lonchites, Wall. Cat. 6644 A, the two upper specimens 

 only. P. moluccanum, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 112. Chavica miniata, macro- 

 stachya'& ? lanceolata, Miq. Syst. Pip. 234 and 236, III. Pip. 32, 33, t. 28, 

 29, and Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 440. PC. lanceolata, Miq. Syst. Pip. 264, and 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 1. 445. Cubeba macrostachya, Miq. Comm. Phyt. 38. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Keiv Distrib. 1327). SINGAPORE, Lobb. PENANG, Wallich. 

 DISTEIB. Java, Banda, Philippine?. 



Branches as thick as a crow-quill, very hard and smooth. Leaves 3-7 by li-3| in., 

 rigid, shining above, base nearly equal, nerves stout, nervules transverse ; petiole 

 ^ \ in. Spikes most dense-fld. of any Indian species; fruiting g~ | in. diam., taper- 

 ing from the base ; bracts minute, peltate, hairy ; stamens 3. Fruit ^ in., ellipsoid ; 

 stigmas 3. Miquel describes a Sumatran variety with hairy shoots and nerves beneath. 

 His C. lanceolata is a very doubtful plant. 



19. P. boehmeriaefolium, Wall. Cat. 6654 A ; tall, quite glabrous, 

 branches subterete when dry, often warted, leaves membranous very shortly 

 petioled or the upper sessile obliquely oblong or linear-oblong acuminate 

 often narrowed at the very unequal almost auricled base 5-7-nerved, nerves 

 distant, male and female spikes 3-6 in., peduncles slender much longer than 

 the petioles. Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 348. Chavica boehmeriffifolia, Miq. 

 Syst. Pip. 265, and III. Pip. 41, t. 37. 



TROPICAL EASTERN HIMALAYA'; Sikkim, ascending to 5000 ft., J. D. H. Bhotan, 

 Griffith. ASSAM, SILHET and tne KHASIA MTS., Wallich, &c. PEGU, Kurz. 

 TENASSEBIM, Parish. DISTEIB. Ava. 



Branches not stout, rather soft. Leaves very variable, in the typical form 



