322 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
1612. SingarorRE: Wallich 6646 A.—DistrIB. Assam, Andaman 
Islands. 
Forma 6; limb yellow when dry, uppermost pair of lateral nerves 
emitted from 26 mm. above the base. . 
ANDAMANS : Goplakabang, King’s Collector. 
39. PIPER RIBESIOIDES, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. I. 79, t. 9 (1830) and 
Cat. 6637 (1828). Scandent. Branches pale when dry, glabrous, the 
spiciferous about 4 mm. thick ; collenchyma continuous, libriform ; a 
central and several peripheric lysigenous canals. Leaves very large, 
moderately long-petioled, glabrous ; limb coriaceous and pale brown 
when dry, about 25 cm. long, 11 cm. wide; oblong-ovate, acutely 
acuminate, the base equilateral, deeply cordate ; 9—13-plinerved, the 
central nerve emitting 1—3 ascendent nerves, the uppermost from 
about 9 cm. above the base, and having on each side of it 3 nerves 
free from the base; petiole about 4—5 cm. long and 5 mm. thick, 
sheath basal. Peduncle glabrous, about 8:4 mm. long and 2 mm. 
thick. Spike: 2 6—8 cm. long; rhachis hirsute; bracts glabrous, 
adnate, free aj the margin, oblong, rounded at both ends; ovary 
free, ovate-oblong, glabrous ; stigmas 3, oblong, acuminate, recurved. 
Berry globose, about 6 mm. long, its stipe nearly of same length. C. 
DC. in Prodr. XVI. 1. 342; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 81. Cubeba 
Wallichit, Miq. Syst. Pip. 289, Ill. Pip. 47, tab. 46, 47. 
Kepau: Langkawi, Gunong Raya, Curtis 2541. Prax: at 300 
ft. altitude, Wray 3726; at Batu Togoh, Wray 70904; at alt. 200 
ft., Wray 2184; at Waterfall, Taiping, Wray 4244. Manacca: Good- 
enough 1496.—Disrris. Burma, Tenasserim, Andamans. 
Forma 6 C. DC. n. f. limb only slightly cordate or rounded at 
the base, 2 spikes generally 2 at the top of a branch, one opposite 
an undeveloped leaf. 
Perak: Larut at 300—600 ft. altitude, King’s Collector 1942; at 
Sungei Ryah, King’s Collector 900; plains, Wray 4248. SELANGOR : 
Camphor forest, Rawang, Ridley 7608. Matacoa: Maingay K.D. 
1331; Derry 80, 82. 
Forma c C. DC. n. f£. Limb subobovate-oblong, cordate or 
rounded at the base. Peduncle 4 mm. long and very slender in the 
male plant. Spike: 3 about 33 mm. long, ] mm. thick, rhachis hir- 
tillous; bract glabrous, adnate, free at the margin, oblong, rounded 
at both ends; stamens 2, anthers obovate: 9? generally solitary . 
peduncle and rhachis as in the type: bract minutely ciliate at the 
