88 cxxiv. PIPERACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Piper. 



fiddle-shaped acuminate 7-nerved at the rounded or cordate often unequal 

 base, peduncle short, fruiting spikes short cylindric, style elongate. Cas. 

 DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 377 ; Miq. Syst. Pip. 284, and Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 2. 447. 

 P. stylosum, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Sat. i.fasc. 5, 139 ; Cos. DC. I. c. 

 344. P. birmanicum, Gas. DC. 1. c. 338, excl. var. ft. Ehyncholepis ? Rox- 

 burghii, Miq. Syst. Pip. 284, and FL Ind. Bat. i. 2. 447. 



MALACCA, Griffith. SINGAPOEE, Haingay. DISTEIB. Sumatra. 



Stem 18 iu. from a creeping stock, rusty-tomentose, subcrect, dichotomously 

 branched, lower nodes thickened. Leaves 5-7 by 2-4 in., base usually narrowed, 

 glabrous or puberulous above, nerves slender ; petiole stout, fe$ in. Male spikes not 

 seen. Fruiting spikes \-\ in. long; peduncle very short ; bracts orbicular. Fruit 

 globose, - in. diam. ; style very variable in length, as long as the fruit or shorter. 

 1 have not seen authentic specimens of Roxburgh's P. rostratum, but there seems no 

 reason to doubt that Miquel's P. stylosum is the same. 



27. P- penang'ense, Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 353 ; erect, quite 

 glabrous, branches terete, leaves petioled membranous oblong or ovate-lan- 

 ceolate caudate-acuminate 5-nerved, base acute or subacute, peduncle 

 equalling the very short fruiting- spike, style elongate. P. Lonchites, Wall. 

 Cat. 6644 B, in Herb. Hook. only. Chavica penangensis, Miq. Syst. Pip. 

 279, and III. Pip. 45, t. 44 (not Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot.}. 



PENANG, Wallich. SINGAPOEE ? Lobb. 



A shrub ; branches hard, smooth. Leaves 3-5 by 1^-2 in., nerves slender, alter- 

 nate, bases rather distant; petiole - J in. Female spikes | in. or less, peduncle 

 slender; bracts peltate. Fruits few T ' 5 -| in. diam. globose, styles slender equalling 

 their diameter. Miquel cites Wall. Cat. 6642 B for this, no doubt a mistake for 

 6644 B, which, however, he must have taken from the Hookerian Herbarium, as 

 ithere is no specimen at all of this species in the Liunaan Society's, where 6642 B 

 is P. attenuatum. 



Sect. IV. Pseudochavica. Spikes solitary ; flowers dioecious. 

 Fruits forming a loose interrupted spike, usually much larger than in Sect. 

 >Chavica; fruits and stigmas sessile. Bracts peltate, orbicular, margins 

 free all round. 



28. P. Hamilton!!, Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 359, in part; quite 

 glabrous, shrubby, branches finely striate, leaves petioled coriaceous elliptic 

 or almost rounded obtuse or subacute 5-7-nerved from above the base, 

 bracts orbicular ciliate, fruiting spikes slender, fruit ovoid. P. plantagineum, 

 Herb. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6659 A, B in part. P. Betle, Wall. Cat. 6652 B, 

 the two left-hand specimens only ; Cas. DC. 1. c. p. 359, in part ; Miq. Syst. 

 Pip. 229, in part. 



SIKKIM TEEAT, J. D. H. ASSAM, Simons. SILHET and KHASIA MTS., Wallich, 

 &c. CHITTAGONG ; at Seetakoond, J. D. If. % T. T. 



Stem stout, flexuous, scandent and rooting below ; branches subterete or angu- 

 lar. Leaves remarkably uniform, 2-3 by l-2 in., pale when dry, nerves strong, 

 nervules transverse, base nearly equal, never cordate ; petiole |-1 in. Male spikes 

 slender, ]J-3 in.; flowers 2-3-androus. Fruiting spikes 4-6 in., flexuous; peduncle 

 in., slender ; rachis glabrous, except the ciliate pits. This is one of the most con- 

 stant of Indian species in the form of the leaf. The name P. plantagineum, Hamil- 

 ton, has been overlooked by Miquel and Cas. DC., though the type of Wallich's 

 No. 6659. Cas. DC. has described with P. Hamiltonii Wallich's 6659 C (misprinted 

 G), which is a very different plant, with caudate-acuminate leaves, and is referred 

 by Miquel (Syst. 225) to Chanica Siriboa. It is, I think, neither Hamiltonii nor 

 Siriboa, and is in too young a condition of flowering to determine. 



29. P. Hooker!, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 437 ; shrubby, 



