300 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
which 2 mm. between the sides of the limb, sheath prolonged up to 
the middle of the petiole; stipules glabrous, confluent in an obtuse 
apex. Peduncle sparingly pubescent, 20—24 mm. long, slender. 
Spike: 3 about 7:8 em. long, up to 2 mm. thick, attenuate at the 
top ;.rhachis glabrous ; bract glabrous, its limb rounded 1 mm. in 
diam ; stamens 2, anthers elliptic, 2-valvate: 910-5 cm. long anda 
little over 2 mm. thick when ripe, obtuse at the top; rhachis and 
bract as in the male; ovary glabrous, its base partly imbedded in 
the rhachis; a single minute orbicular stigma. Berry free except at 
its extreme base, globose, about 1 mm. in diam., orange or dark- 
yellow when living, black when dry. 
PenanG: at Balik Pulau at 800—1000 ft. alt., Ourtis 792: 
Kunsiler 1481; Deschamps. PrRaK: at Gunong Bulang, on trees, 
King’s Collector 270 ; at Gunong Keledang, Ridley 9582; at Larut, 
King’s Collector 3574; JonoreE ; at Bukit Saya, Ridley 11022. 
3. PIPER RUFISPICUM, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 4 
(1912). Branches glabrous, light brown when dry, the spiciferous 
about 1 mm. thick; collenchyma in distinct laterally widened 
bundles, its inner zone libriform ; a central and several peripheric 
lysigenous canals. Leaves glabrous ; limb rigid and opacous, 8°5-9 
em. long and 3:2—3°5 cm. wide, elliptic-lanceolate, acutely attenuate, 
the base slightly inequilateral, attenuate on one side, sub-attenuate 
on the other side ; 6-nerved, 3 nerves on one side and 2 on the other 
side of thelimb. Peduncle glabrous,13mm.long. Spike: 2 cylindric, 
rounded at the top, 5:7 cm. long, 2°6 cm. thick ; rhachis rufo- 
tomentose ; bract suborbicular, emarginulate at the top, minutely 
glandulose on both surfaces, sessile at its centre, 1 mm. in diam. 
Berry deeply imbedded in the rhachis, with a free conic and slender 
style about 1-5 mm. long ; stigmas 4, short, ovate-acute. 
Perak : at [juk, Scortechini 1177. 
4. PIpeR PENANGENSE, C. DC. in Prod. XVI. i. 353 (1869). 
Erect, about 2 ft. high. Branches glabrous, fuscous when dry; the 
spiciferous nearly 2mm. thick ; collenchyma in distinct, laterally much 
widened, bundles and not libriform; a single central lysigenous canal. 
Leaves glabrous, shortly petioled; limb membranous when dry, 
minutely pellucid-dotted, 11—13 cm. long, 3—4 cm. wide, oblong- 
elliptic-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the base equilateral, acute or 
nearly so; 7-plinerved, the central nerve emitting 2 ascendent alter- 
nate nerves, the uppermost from about 18 mm. above its base, 
