Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 321 
bark and pith. Leaves moderately long-petioled, glabrous; limb 
membranous when dry, reddish-dotted underneath, up to 7°5 cm. 
long and 36 mm. wide; elliptic-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, equi- 
lateral and acute at the base ; 7-plinerved, the central nerve emitting 
on each side 2 ascendent nerves, the uppermost from 26 mm. above 
the base, and having on each side of it one ascendent nerve free 
from the base ; petiole slender, 11 mm. long, sheath basal. Peduncle 
glabrous, slender, 8-14 mm. long. Spike: 9 about 36 mm. long, rha- 
chis hirtillous ; bract glabrous, obovate, 1-5 mm. long and up to 1°5 
mm. wide, shortly pedicellate above its centre, the pedicel containing 
gelified cells; ovary free, ovate, glabrous; stigmas 3, ovate-acute, 
Berry stipitate, globose, transparent and red when living, black when 
dry, about 4 mm. in diam., the stipe a little shorter. 
Perak: Maxwell’s hill, at 2500 ft., Wray 1734. 
38. PIPER PEDICELLOSUM, Wall. Cat. 6646 A. (1828). Scandent. 
Branches glabrous, dark brown when dry, the spiciferous 2 mm. thick ; 
collenchyma libriform in distinct often laterally much widened bundles ; 
a central and one or two peripheric lysigenous canals ; sclerosed cells in 
the bark between the masses of phloem of the peripheric fibro-vascular 
bundles. Leaves shortly petioled, glabrous ; limb subcoriaceous when 
dry, copiously pellucid-dotted, 9 cm. long, 38—44 mm. wide ; ovate, 
obtusely acuminate, the base cordate and slightly inequilateral ; 
7—9-plinerved, the central nerve emitting on each side 2 pairs of 
ascendent opposite nerves, the uppermost from only 6 mm. above 
the base, and having on each side of it 1—2 nerves free from the base, 
the external more curved and thinner than the others; petiole 6:3 
mm. long of which 2 mm. between the sides of the limb. Peduncle 
glabrous, 8—9 mm. long, 4:5 mm. thick. Spike: 9 2°5—4 cm. long, 
rhachis hirsute; bract puberulous on the back and ciliolate on the 
margins, adnate above its centre, oblong-obovate, attenuate and 
subacute toward the lower end ; ovary free, ovate, glanduloso-asperu- 
late ; stigmas 4 or more rarely 3, ovate oblong and acute. Berry 
globose, yellowish-red when living, black when dry, 5 mm. in diam., 
its stipe 6 mm. long, very minutely puberulous. C. DC. in Prodr. 
XVI. i. 343, exclud. spec. P. Lamberti: ; Hook.f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 8}. 
Cubeba Neesii, Miq. Syst. Pip. 292. 
PERAK : Larut, at 100 ft. a large pepper 60-100 ft. long clinging 
to trees, February, King’s Collector 5571; at alt. 1200—1500 ft., 
King’s Collector 10761. Matacca: at Ayer Panas, November. Ridley 
