PIPEBACEJE. 



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&c, have the same general organization, and only differ in details. 

 Thus Long-Pepper {Poivre Long) owes its name to the fact that its 

 berries are arranged in a long cylinder, close-packed with one- 

 another and the bracts ; they are hence obpyramidal, and only free 

 at the apex. In the Betel the bracts are rounded and peltate, and 



Piper Cubeba. 



Fig. 508. 

 Fruiting branch (\). 



the leaves are pluricostate at the base. Cubebs has stipitate berries 

 (whence its vulgar name of Poivre a queue [Tailed Pepper]), with 

 bracts aclnate to the rachis except at the edges, and penniveined 

 leaves. Kava has pedicellate peltate crenulate bracts, and long- 

 petiolate penniveined leaves, cordate and 11-13-costate at the base, 



C. DC, Prodr., 354, n. 470. — Macropiper Bot., 96. — M.latifolium Miq., in Linncea, xx. 

 methyrticum Hook. & Arn., in Beech. Voy,, 130 (vulg. Ava, Kava, Kawa-kaica). 



