290 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Berry covered with longitudina] glandulose-asperulate 
riblets. Limb deltoid-cordate, subobtusely acumi- 
nate at the top, up to 26 mm. long and 19 mm. wide 6. P. pellucida. 
5. Limb densely hirtillous on both surfaces. 
Stigma inserted obliquely a little below the summit of 
the ovary. Limb rounded-obovate, 23 mm. long, 
14°5 mm. wide .. a ar .. @. P. kotana. 
1. PEPEROMIA DINDIGULENSIS, Mig. Syst. Pip. 122, in Hook. 
Journ. Bot V. 549 and Till. Pip. 19, t. 13. Erect, stem and branches 
puberulous. Leaves opposite or the terminal ternate, moderately long- 
petioled ; limb membranous when dry, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 
cuneate at the base, obtuse or subobtuse at the top, puberulous on 
both surfaces, 5-nerved; up to45mm. long and 38 mm. wide; petiole 
puberulous, about 8 mm. long. Peduncles axillary and terminal, 
about 8 mm. long, puberulous. Spikes 7—8 cm. long, filiform, 
glabrous ; limb of bract rounded, subsessile at its centre; anthers 
elliptic; ovary emergent, obovate; stigma globular, glabrous, ob- 
liquely inserted slightly lower than the apexofthe ovary. C.DC.in 
Prodr XVI. i. 442; Wight Ic. t. 1921; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 98 
exclud. syn. P. Thwaitesit,C. DC. P. Heyneana, Wight Ic. t. 1922. 
Piper ovalifoliwum, Heyne in Wall. Cat. n. 6663 A. and B. (except 
lower specimen, vide Hook. f. 1. c.). 
PaHANG: top of the Kota Glanggi caves, Ridley 2346. SELAN- 
GOR: rocks at Batu caves, Ridley.—Distris. India (Deccan Penin- 
sula, rocks of Dindigul). ' 
2. PepEromra Wray, C. DC. in Records Bot. Survey Ind. VI. 1. 
(1912). Stem decumbent, puberulous, rooting at the nodes; branches 
erect, densely puberulous, nearly 1 mm. thick, angulose when dry, 
ramulose, up to 10°5 cm long. Leaves opposite, petioled; limb 
puberulous at the margins on the upper surface, otherwise glabrous, 
obovate or the uppermost rounded-obovate, acute or subacute 
at the base, the lower up to 20 mm. long and 7—15 mm. wide, 
the uppermost 6mm. in diam.; petiole densely puberulous, 4—6 mm. 
long. Peduncles terminal, glabrous, up to 12°5 mm. long. Spikes 
about 24 mm. long and 1 mm thick, glabrous; limb of bract 
rounded with short central pedicel; anthers elliptic, filaments very 
short; ovary ovate, stigma terminal, glabrous. Berry globose, 
asperulate, nearly 1 mm. in diam., its base immersed in the rhachis. 
PERAK: upper part of the valley of the Batang Padang, at 
1500—2000 ft. altitude, on dead tree, Wray 1455. 
