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most from nearly 4 cm. above the base, and having on each side of 
it 2 lateral ascendent nerves free from the base, the external much 
shorter and thinner than the others ; petiole 4 mm. long with basal 
sheath. Peduncle glabrous, 6°3 mm. long. Spike: 3 5°6 cm. long, 
1 mm. thick, rhachis glabrous; bract glabrous, its limb oblong- 
obovate, 2°55 mm. long, up to 1:5 mm. wide; stamens 3, anthers 
ovate, 4-valvate, nearly as long as the oblong filaments: 2 5:6 
em. long and yellow when ripe; bract as in the male. Berry free. 
ovate, 4 mm. long, drying black. 
Perak : Sunga Prya, near a small limestone hill in dense jungle, 
King’s Collector 1004. 
27. PIPER LONGICAULE, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 11 
(1912). Climber, 6—7 cm. long, clinging to trees and shrubs. 
Branches glabrous, light brown when dry, the spiciferous 1 mm. 
thick ; collenchyma libriform, in distinct thin bundles; a single central 
lysigenous canal. Leaves moderately long petioled, glabrous ; limb 
rigid-membranous when dry, minutely and inconspicuously pellucid- 
dotted; 75—10 cm. long, 3:5—4 cm. wide, elliptic-lanceolate, 
acutely acuminate, the base subacute and slightly longer on one side 
than on the other ; 7-plinerved, the central nerve emitting 2 alternate 
ascendent nerves, the uppermost from 12—14 mm. above the base, 
and having on each side of it 2 ascendent nerves free from the base, 
the external much thinner and shorter than the others ; petiole nearly 
7 mm. long, sheath basal. Peduncle glabrous, about 12 mm. long, 
05 mm. thick. Spike: 3 nearly 8cm. long and 1 mm. thick; flowers 
almost verticillate ; rhachis hirsute; bract adnate, obovate-oblong, 
15 mm. long, obtuse at the lower end, rounded or shortly attenuate 
at the apex, minutely puberulous on the back and ciliolate at the free 
margins; stamens 3, anthers obovate, 4-valvate, little longer than 
the oblong filaments: ? up to 19°5cm. long, white on the living 
plant when flowering ; rhachis hirsute 1°5 mm. thick; bract 2°5 mm. 
long, otherwise as in the male; ovary free, glabrous ; stigmas 4—5, 
linear, acute, recurved. Berry ovate, subacute at the apex, nearly 
2°5 mm. long, yellow or red when living, brown when dry. 
Penane: Curtis 1318. Perak: Ulu Slim at 500—800 ft. alti- 
tude, in dense jungle and on rocky soil, King’s Collector 10673 ; 
Scortechini; Larut, at 1000-—3000 ft. altitude, King’s Collector 2545 ; 
4048, 5876; Kota, Larut, in plains, August, Wray 2857; Tapa 
1347. Maraccoa: Mairgay K.D. 1335.—Distris. Inpia, Wight 
2556. 
