314 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
dotted, 11—15 cm. long, 5—-9 cm. wide, a little narrower on one side 
of the central nerve than on the other side; ovate-elliptic, acutely 
acuminate, the base subattenuate and equilateral; 7-plinerved, the 
central nerve emitting 2 ascendent nerves, the uppermost from about 
35 mm. above the base, and having on each side of it 2 ascendent 
nerves free from the base, the outer much shorter and less ascendent 
than the others; petiole 2—3 cm. long, with sheath prolonged up to 
its middle or a little higher. Peduncle nearly as long as the petiole. 
Spike about as long as the limb; bracts linear-oblong, adnate to the 
rhachis and free from it only at the margins, the lower end obtuse, 
the upper more rounded; flowers commonly unisexual and dicecious, 
more rarely bisexual, surrounded by a sort of calicule formed by the 
ends of the adjacent bracts; stamens 2, anthers rounded-reniform 
much shorter than the fleshy filaments; ovary free, rounded, stigmas 
3—4, rarely 5, lanceolate. Berry sessile, globose, red when fresh, 
drying black, 3—4mm.indiam. Vahl Enum. I. 329; Roxb. Fl. Ind. 
1. 150 and Ed. Carey & Wall. 1.153; Blume in Verh. Bat. Genoots. 
XI. 191, f. 11—17; Mig. Syst. Pip. 308, Ill. Pip. 50, t. 50; C. 
DC. in Prodr. XVI. i. 363; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 90; Hayne 
Arnz. Gewachs. XIV. t. 6; Bot. Mag. t. 3139; Schitzl. Icon. II. t. 81. 
Cultivated in the damp parts of India, Ceylon, the Malay 
Archipelago and most other tropical countries. 
Var. subpenninervis C. DC. n. var., limb elliptic-lanceolate 17:5 
cm. long, 7°5 cm. wide, acutely and rather long acuminate, the 
base equilateral, acute, the central nerve emitting 4 ascendent nerves, 
the uppermost from nearly 6 cm. above the base, and having on each 
side of it one ascendent nerve free from the base; flowers bisexual, 
stamens 3. Berry elliptic-globose, attenuate and acute at the apex, 
4 mm. long. 
Dinpines: Gunong Tungul, Ridley 8018. Perak: Ridley 8027, 
8382; Waterloo, Curtis 2700. Srnancor: high cave Gua Batu. 
Curtis 8180.—DistRiB.: Tenasserim, Helfer 4425. 
26. PIPER FLAVISPIcUM, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 10: 
(1912). Erect, 2feet high. Branches glabrous, the spiciferous about 
1-5 mm. thick; collenchyma libriform, in distinct and rather thick 
bundles; a single central lysigenous canal. Leaves very shortly 
petioled, glabrous; limb membranous when dry, minutely pellucid- 
dotted, 13—15 cm. long and 4°5—5’5 cm. wide, elliptic-lanceolate, 
rather long acuminate, the base acute and equilateral; 7-plinerved, 
the central nerve emitting 2 alternate ascendent nerves, the upper- 
