302 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
21 cm. long, rhachis glabrous ; bract glabrous, its limb obovate, up to 
3 mm. long, more or less prolonged and lacerate at its lower end, 
widely subsessile ; ovary free, glabrous, ovate attenuate at the top ; 
stigmas 3—4, linear, acute and recurved. Berry sessile, globose and 
acuminate at the top, black when dry. 
PERAK: Maxwell’s hill, alt. 4000 ft.; September, Curtis 2046 ; at 
Thaiping, March, Ridley 2963, 5480; at Larut, rare, growing closely 
to the stem of a tree in dense jungle, King’s Collector 6369; at 
Maxwell’s hill, alt. 3800 ft, Wray 4239. SmLancor : Semangko pass, 
April, Ridley 15569. 
This species will probably, when the male is known, have to be placed in 
Section SARCOSTEMON perhaps as aform of P. Korthalsii Miq. with larger 
and multinerved leaves, longer spikes and bracts not adnate. 
7. PIPER styLosuM Miq. in Ann. Bot. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 1. 139 
(1863-64). Erect, 8-24 in. high. Branches densely and retrorsely 
ochraceo-hirsute, the spiciferous 2mm. thick ; collenchyma continu- 
ous, almost entirely libriform; a single central lysigenous canal ; 
sclerosed cells abundant in the pith, less so in the bark. Leaves 
shortly petioled ; limb membranous when dry, minutely pellucid- 
dotted, glabrous above, densely hirsute on the nerves and veins 
underneath; 11—15 cm. long, 5°5—7 cm. wide; elliptic, acutely 
acuminate, the base obtuse or subattenuate on one side, rounded and 
wider on the other side; 7-plinerved, the central nerve emitting 2 
opposite or subalternate ascendent nerves, the uppermost from about 
5'2 cm. above the base, and having on each side of it 2 ascendent 
nerves free from the base; petiole 6—8 mm. long, densely hirsute, 
sheath basal. Peduncle nearly equal to the petiole, densely ochraceo- 
hirsute. Spike: S about 20 mm. long, 3 mm. thick, rhachis hirsute ; 
bract glabrous, its limb orbicular, 1 mm. in diam. with a central 
pedicel; stamens 2, anthers oblong, 4-valvate, much shorter than 
the oblong filaments: androgynous spike cylindric, about 10 mm. 
long, white when living, rhachis hirsute; bract glabrous, subobovate- 
orbicular with a central pedicel; stamens as above; ovary free, 
glabrous; stigmas 3, ovate. Berry ovate, with a rather long conical 
style. C. DC. in Prodr. XVI. 1. 344. P. rostratum, Hook f. Fl. Br. 
Ind. V. 87 (not Roxb.). P. birmanicum, C. DC. in Prodr. XVI. i. 338. 
Dixpines: Gunong Tungul, Ridley. Perak: Larut Hills Tea 
Gardens, Curtis 2049; Maxwell’s Hill, Ridley; Gunong Batu Putih, 
alt. 4500 ft., Wray 283 ; at Kwala Wok, Wray 864; at Larut, King’s 
Collector, 2491 ; in dense jungle, rich soil, 300—500 ft., 7791; Scor- 
