XXII. PIPERACE^ 



I. SAURURUS SERIES. 



The Peppers (figs. 497, 503-513) alone long constituted the order 

 Piper acea. But latterly other genera have been added, 1 and among 



Piper (Eupiper) nigrum. 



Fig. 497. 

 Fruiting branch (^). 



them those forming the little group Saururece. The type thereof 

 that has been longest known is the genus Saururus? long repre- 



1 C. DC, Prodr., xvi. sect. i. 235, 237. Tttkp., in Diet. Sc. Nat., Atl., t. 295.— Ende., 



2 L., Gen., n. 464. — Adaks., Fain, des PI., ii. Gen., n. 1824. — Lihdl., Yeg. Kingd., 524, fig. 

 46S. — J., Gen., 19. — Lamk., Diet., vi. 668; 356 (2-4).— Pater, Organog., 425, t. 90; Fam. 

 Suppl., iii. 347; III., t. 276. — Mikb., in Ann. Nat., 146.— Lem. & Dcne., Tr. Gen., 500. — 

 Mus., xvi. t. 19. — Rich., Diet. Class., xv. 195. — Schnize., Iconogr., t. 82. — C. DC, Prodr., 238, 

 E. Mey., D. Houtiuynia el Saumreis, 13. — n. 4. — Maltuschkia Gmel., Sgst., 589. 



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