Peperomia.] cxxiv. PIPERACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 99 



lensis, Thwaites Enum. 292, and Gas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 463 (not of 

 Miquel). 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites (C. P. 2173). 



Stems 6-10 in. long, diffusely branched, as thick as a crow-quill, naked below, 

 rooting at the distant nodes. Leaves |-1 in., narrowed into a very short petiole. 

 Spikes |-| in., stoutly peduncled, obtuse. This is the P. courtallensis of Cas. DC., 

 who cites Miquel, but omits the Continental Indian localities where P. courtallensis 

 proper alone is found, and the number (831) which he quotes is of Gardner's (not 

 Thwaites') collection. This differs from P. portulacoides in habit, and the form of 

 the subsessile leaves, and the spikes. 



9. P. Heyneana, Miq. Syst. Pip. 123 ; quite glabrous, stem diffusely 

 branched creeping and rooting, leaves opposite and 3-4-nately whorled 

 petioled linear- or obovate- oblong obcuneate or obcordate rarely orbicular 

 3-nerved, spikes slender axillary terminal and panicled. Cas. DC. in Prodr. 

 xvi. 1. 453. Piper oblongum, Wall. Cat. 6663 C ? 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon, alt. 3500 ft., Strachey <$ Winter- 

 bottom, to Sikkim, alt. 5-6000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T. 

 Patkoye Mts. in UPPEE ASSAM, Griffith. 



A small prostrate tufted very variable species. Stem 4-10 in. long, rather slender. 

 Leaves -! in. long, thinly fleshy, drying green ; petiole -3- in. Spikes -! m - 

 It is unfortunate that Miquel should have attached the name of Heyne to a species 

 which Heyne never saw, and which grows very far from the region which that 

 author rendered botanically classical. 



10. P. reflexa, A. Dietr. Sp. PL \. 180 ; stem pubescent stout densely 

 branched and tufted leafy, leaves sessile or shortly petioled coriaceous 

 4-nately whorled orbicular or nearly so 3-nerved pubescent beneath or gla- 

 brate, spikes solitary axillary and terminal stout much exceeding the leaves. 

 Miq. Syst. Pip. 169, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Sot. iv. 426, Fl. 2nd. Sat. i. 2. 

 436, and in Mart. PL Bras. iv. 17; Wight Ic. t. 1933. P. reflexa, vars. 

 . Berlandieri & rj. parviflora, Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 452. Piper saxa- 

 tile, Wall. Cat. 6664. P. pusillum, Blume in Verli. Bat. Nat. G-enoots. xi. 

 382, f. 37. Micropiper pusillum, Miq. Comm. Phyt. t. 5. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal, alt. 4-6000 ft., Edgeworth, to Sikkim, 

 ascending to 7000 ft., and to UPPEE ASSAM, Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. 

 TEAVANCOEE, at Courtallam, Wight. CEYLON, Central Province, ascending to 

 6000ft. DISTRIB. Malay Islands, China, Australia, Africa, America. 



Stem or branches 3-10 in., rooting at the lower nodes, lower as thick as a goose- 

 quill in Courtallam specimens, which are nearly glabrous, more slender in others. 

 Leaves very uniform, rarely opposite or 6-nate, in. long, rarely more, sometimes 

 elliptic, lower shortly petioled, wrinkled and yellowish when dry. Spikes |-1 in., 

 stoutly pedicelled, obtuse. 



ORDER CXXY. CHLORANTHACEJE. 



Herbs shrubs or trees, usually aromatic. Leaves opposite, usually 

 toothed, petioles often connate and forming a sheath ; stipules small, subu- 

 late. Flowers in terminal or pseudo- axillary spikes, heads or panicles^ 

 1-sexual (one of each sex sometimes cohering). FL. <$. Perianth 0. 

 Stamens 1 or 3 connate, filaments very short and thick ; anthers 2-celled, or 

 thelateral when 3 are connate 1-celled. FL. $ . Perianth 0, or adnate to the 

 ovary, with a 3-toothed limb. Ovary 1-celled ; style very short linear or 

 subclavate or ; ovule 1, orthotropous, pendulous from the top of the cavity. 

 Drupe small ovoid or globose. Seed pendulous, testa membranous, albumen 

 copious fleshy ; embryo minute, far from the hilum, cotyledons diverging, 



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