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2°, Bract adnate to the rhachis, oblong or obovate- 
oblong, free at both ends and at its lateral 
margin. (Nos. 59, 60). 
Limb entirely glabrous, multiplinerved, the base 
rounded or subrounded on both sides. 
Anthers obovate. Limb elliptic, acutely acuminate, 
14 em. long, 9 em. wide .. an ae 
Anthers reniform. Limb oblong-ovate, acutely 
acuminate, up to 18 em. long and 6 cm. wide .. 60. P. argyrites. 
D. Inflorescence unknown. oie we .. 61. P. clypeatum. 
59. P. obovantherum. 
1. PIPER GLOBULISTIGMUM, C.DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 
3 (1912). Branches glabrous, light brown when dry, the spiciferous 
up to 1 mm. thick; collenchyma continuous, not libriform; no peri- 
pheric lysigenous canal; many dark brown cells in bark and pith. 
Leaves shortly petioled, glabrous; limb rigid and opaque, 9°5—11°5 
em. long and 2—3 cm. wide, oblong-elliptic-lanceolate, acutely and 
rather long attenuate, the sides of the base unequally long, the 
shortest tapering, the longest rounded ; penninerved, the central 
nerve emitting on each side 3 alternate ascendent nerves, the upper- 
most from 24—36 mm. above the base ; petiole about 5°5 mm. long, 
2 of which between the side of the limb, sheath basal. Peduncle 
glabrous, 26 mm. long. Spike: 2 cylindric, 52 mm. long and 1 mm. 
thick when ripe; rhachis densely velutino-puberulous ; bract gla- 
brous, its limb orbicular, rigid, 1 mm. in diam. with a very short 
central pedicel. Berry partly imbedded in the rhachis, its upper free 
portion rounded and densely velutino-puberulous; a single stigma, 
globular and very small. 
PERAK : Scortechini!. 
2. PIPER RAMIPILUM, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 3 
(1912). Creeper, upto9m.long. Branches pubescent when young, 
soon glabrous, the spiciferous 2 mm. thick drying brown; hairs 
ramulose in the female but not so in the male; collenchyma continu- 
ous, not libriform; a single central lysigenous canal. Leaves shortly 
petioled ; limb rigid-membranous when dry, subpellucid-dotted, up to 
12 em. long and 5 cm. wide, glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves 
underneath, the hairs ramulose ; ovate elliptic, acutely acuminate, 
the base cordulate and slightly inequilateral; 7-plinerved, the central 
nerve emitting 2 ascendent alternate nerves, the uppermost from 
about 32 mm. above the base, and having on each side of it 2 
nerves free from the base, the external more arcuate and much 
shorter than the others ; petiole densely pubescent, 8 mm. long, of 
