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2-1 mm. thick when flowering; bract rounded, 0°52 mm. in diam. with 
a short central pedicel; ovary free; stigmas 3-4, ovate-oblong, acute 
at the top. Berry sessile, globose, nearly 3 mm. in diam. 
Pexak: Maxwell’s hill, Ridley 5479. 
12. PIPER BOEHMERIAEFOLIUM, Wall. Cat. 6654 (1828); C. 
DC., in Prodr. XVI. i. 348; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 85. Chavica 
boehmeriaefolia, Miq. Syst. Pip. 265; Ill. Pip. 41, t. 37. 
Forma b, glabrifolia, C. DC. n.f. Erect, 0°9--1:2 m. high; 
branches glabrous, brown when dry, the spiciferous nearly 2 mm. 
thick ; collenchyma continuous, not libriform ; no lysigenous canal. 
Leaves moderately long petioled, glabrous ; limb membranous when 
dry, minutely pellucid-dotted, up to 18°8 cm. long and 7:5 cm. 
wide, oblong-elliptic, acutely acuminate, the base inequilateral, 
rounded on the longest attenuate on the shortest side ; penninerved, 
the central nerve emitting 5 nerves on the longest and 4 on the 
other side, the uppermost from 5 cm. above the base, the superior 
ascendent, the inferior subascendent and more curved ; petiole about 
6'5 mm. long, of which 2:2—4°4 mm. between the sides of the limb, 
sheath basal. Peduncle 4.4 mm. long, glabrous. Spike: S about 
28 mm. long, light yellow when flowering, later yellowish-red, rhachis 
hirsute ; bract glabrous, its limb round, little less than 2°2 mm. in 
diam. with a short central pedicel; stamens 3, anthers reniform, 
4-valvate, much shorter than the oblong filaments. 
PERAK: Larut, at 500-1500 ft. altitude, in dense old jungle 
on rocky rich soil, Kunstler 2231, 2517. 
Var. lanata, Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. l.c. P. lanatum Roxb. FI. 
Ind. 1. 159, Ed. Carey and Wall. 1. 161; Wall. Cat. 6647; C. DC. in 
Prodr. 1. 341. P. Cubeba, Wall. Cat. 6645 (not Linn.). P. lonchites, 
Wall. Cat. 6644 in part. P. javanicum, OC. DC. lc. 343. Cubeba 
lanata, Miq. Syst. Pip. 298; Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. 2. 450. ©. Lowong var. 
quintuplinervis, Miq. |. c. 298. 
Ramlets densely hirsute: structure as in the type except that 
there are a few sclerosed cells opposite the medullary rays; limb 
11—12 em. long, 3°5—4 cm. wide, the upper surface hirsute princi- 
pally on the nerves, undersurface and petiole densely hirsute. 
Peduncle up to 2 cm. long. 
PENANG: Wallich 6647. 
Var. glabra, Hook. f. |.c.; ramlets and leaves quite glabrous. 
Limb lanceolate, 4—5 in. long, up to 2 in. wide. 
