288 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
glands within; inner pitcher surface glaucous- or reddish-green over 
upper half, shining and with many distinct circular glands over lower 
half. Inflorescence 20—35 cm. long; peduncle and raceme stellate 
pubescent; pedicels 2—1-flowered below, 1-flowered above. Sepals 
4, elliptic tomentose without, abundantly glandular within. Stam- 
nal column glabrous, anthers 20—16, biseriate, convolute, Ovary 
ovate, white-tomentose, style short with 4-grooved stigmas. Capsule 
18—20 mm. long. Seeds 15—16 mm. long, delicate. Jack in 
Comp. Bot. Mag. I. 271; Korthals Verh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. (1839) 28; 
Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. Il. 7; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. i, 1069; 
Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. X XII 422, in DC. Prod. XVII 97, and FI. 
Br. Ind. V. 69; Beccari Malesia I. 213 and Til. 11; Hemsley in Bot. 
Mag. t. 8067; Macfar.in Engl. Pfl.-reich IV. iii. 63. Phyllamphora mir- 
abilis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 606. N. macrostachya, Blume and N. 
fimbriaia, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. II. 7; Miq. Ill. Fl. Arechip. 
Ind.3 t. 2,5 t. 6. WN. distillatoria, Wall. Cat. 2244; Aiton Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2, V. 420. WN. O’ Brieniana, Rodigas in Ill. Hort. (1890) 109. 
Kepau, at Langkawi Island, Mahomed Hanif!. PENANG: on 
Mount Elvira, Curtis!, at Waterfall, Curtis!. Prov. WELLESLEY : 
at Tassek Glugor, Curtis!. Prrak: at Ulu Bubong, King’s Collector 
10631! at 400—600 ft. alt.; at Telok Bahang, Curtis!. SInGaPore: 
Wallich 2244!; at Changi, Aidley—DistRiB. China and Cochin 
China, Malaya, Sumatra, Borneo and N. Guinea ?, N. Australia. 
Family XCVIII. PIPERACEAE. 
By C. DE CANDOLLE. 
Herbs or shrubs or small trees, growing on the soil or epiphytic, 
parenchyma, with aromatic or resiniferous cells. Stem and branches 
containing either (in Peperomia) a system of distinct fibrovascular 
bundles with limited centrifugal growth, disposed in more or less 
concentric rows and anastomozing together in the nodes; or (in 
Piper) two fibrovascular systems, one of which is composed of 
peripheric bundles with unlimited centrifugal growth, the other of 
intramedullar bundles with limited centrifugal growth ; the bundles 
of both systems anastomozing together in the nodes. Jecaves simple, 
entire, exstipulate in Peperomia, stipulate in Piper. Inflorescence 
spiciform. Flowers very small, 1—2-sexual. Perianth 0. Stamens 
1—10, hypogynous or connate with the ovary at its extreme base, 
rarely higher. Ovary 1-celled, a single terminal orthotropous ovule. 
