306 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Pauana: Tahan river, Ridley 2259, 2260; Ayer Panas, Derry 
497. PrRak: in dense jungle, clinging to stems of trees, alt. 200- 
300 ft., King’s Collector 4184; a small pepper 4-5 ft. long, fruit 
bright red when ripe, Kunstler 3411. Prov. WELLESLEY: at 100-300 
ft. altitude, a long slender pepper, in dense jungle on trees, fruit red, 
Kunstler 1613; Ridley 14496. 
Var. humilis C. DC. n. var.; shrub about 60 cm. high. Ramlets 
glabrous, petioles hirtillous; limb of leaves glabrous. Berry globose, 
nearly 1 mm. in diam. 
PERAK: Wray 1949; Scortechini. 
Var. angustifolia, Miq. ex Hook. f. l.c.; ramlets and leaves 
glabrous, lanceolate, 38 —42 mm. long, up to 12°5 mm. wide. 
Matacoa: Maingay K.D. 1333. 
13. PIPER LONCHITES, Wall. Cat. 6644 (1828). Erect ? Branches 
glabrous, smooth, drying brown, the spiciferous 1 mm. thick ; collen- 
chyma libriform in distinct bundles ; a central and several peripheric 
lysigenous canals. Leaves shortly petioled, glabrous; limb mem- 
branous when dry, copiously and minutely pellucid-dotted, 7:6 cm. 
long and neariy 31 mm. wide, ovate-lanceolate, acutely attenuate, the 
base very slightly inequilateral, acute on the shortest, subrounded 
on the longest sides; 5-plinerved, the central nerve emitting 2 
opposite ascendent nerves from nearly 6:3 mm. above the base 
and having on each side of it one ascendent nerve free from the base ; 
petiole 3:3 mm. long, sheath basal. Peduncle glabrous, very slender, 
13-5 mm. long in the male, 19-25 mm. long in the female. Spike: 3 
about 12°5 mm. long when flowering; rhachis hirsute ; bract gla- 
brous, rounded, subsessile at its centre, 1 mm. in diam. ; stamens 3, 
anthers ovate, 4-valvate, shorter than the adult, oblong, filaments : 
2 about 29°5 mm. long and 2°5 mm. thick; rhachis and bract 
asin the male ; ovary free, stigmas 3—4, lanceolate. Miq. Syst. Pip. 
I; 331; C. DC. in Prodr. XVI. i. 358; “Hookvi vB Brand: Vv: 
40; non Roém. & Sch. Syst. Mant. 1, 241 quod = P. lanceolatum, 
Roxb. = P. miniatum, Bl. 
PrewanG: Wallich. Prrak: Scortechint. 
Forma b, C. DC. n.f. Branches as in the type; collenchyma 
almost entirely libriform, a single central lysigenous canal, a zone 
of sclerosed cells between the masses of phloem of the peripheric 
fibro-vascular bundles. Limb rigid when dry, the base slightly 
inequilateral, acute on both sides. 
