318 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
the limbs; rhachis hirsute; limb of the bract rounded, hirtillous above 
and ciliate with a central short pedicel ; stamens 2, anthers globose, 
4-valvate: 2 many times shorter than the limbs; rhachis and bracts 
as in the male; ovary free, glabrous, stigmas 3—4, ovate, acute. 
Berry ovate-globose, black and 5 mm. long when dry, its stipe nearly 
of same length. A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. I. 681; C. DC. in Prodr. XVI. i. 
341; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 82; C. DC. in Philipp. Journ. Sc. V. 
458. P.Cubeba Vahl Enum. I. 332; Roxb. FI. Ind. I. 159 and Ed. 
Carey & Wall. I. 161; Wall. Cat. 6645. Cubeba canina, Miq. 
Comm. Phyt. 33, t. 3, Syst. Pip. 293, Fl. Ind. Bat. I. ii. 449 
and Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat -fasec. V. 137. 
Perak: at Gunong Bintang, Kunstler 281; in Upper Perak 
alt. 300 ft., Wray 3606; at Kwala Wok, Wray 853; at Bukit Tungul, 
Ridley 3356. Sinaarore: Ridley 4686; at Selitar, Ridley 4688; 
Ridley 6425; Tanjong Katong, jungle by road to Siglap, Ridley. 
32. PIPER MALACCENSE, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 12 
(1912). Branches hirsute when young, glabrous afterwards; the 
spiciferous 1-5 mm. thick; collenchyma continuous, not libriform ; 
a central and many peripheric lysigenous canals. Leaves shortly 
petioled; limb membranous when dry very minutely pellucid-dotted, 
up to 17‘5 cm. long and nearly up to 6 cm. wide, hirsute on both 
surfaces on the nerves; elliptic-lanceolate, acutely and rather long 
acuminate, the base slightly inequilateral, acute or rounded on the 
longer side; penninerved, the central nerve emitting on each side 3 
ascendent nerves, the uppermost from about 5°5 cm. above the 
base; petiole densely hirsute, 7 mm. long, of which 2 mm. between 
the sides of the limb, sheath basal. Peduncle hirsute, nearly as long 
as the petiole. Spike 3 cm. long; rhachis hirsute; bract glabrous, 
its limb rounded 1°5 mm. in diam.; flowers sometimes bisexual, then 
stamens 1—2, anthers rounded; ovary free, ovate, glabrous; stigmas 
4, linear, acute. Berry globose, 3 mm. long, black when dry. much 
longer than its stipe. 
Mavacca: Vern. ‘‘ Poku Pimpin,’’ Ridley 2338; at Merliman, 
Ridley 1617. 
33. PIPER SELANGORENSE, ©. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 
13 (1912). Scandent. Branches glabrous, slender, the spiciferous 
1 mm. thick, greenish when dry ; collenchyma in distinct laterally 
widened bundles, partly libriform; a single central lysigenous canal ; 
many fulvescent cells in pith and bark. Leaves shortly petioled, 
