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spiciferous 2 mm. thick; collenchyma continuous, not libriform ; a 
single central lysigenous canal; yellow cells scattered in bark and pith. 
Leaves shortly petioled, glabrous; limb membranous when dry, 
black-dotted underneath; 13—-16 cm. long, 4:8—7 cm. wide; elliptic- 
lanceolate, acutely acuminate, the base equilateral and acute; penni- 
nerved, the central nerve emitting on each side 4 subascendent and 
thin nerves, the uppermost from 6 cm. above the base; petiole 6 
mm. long, sheath prolonged nearly to the middle of the petiole. 
Peduncle 30 mm. long, glabrous. Spike: 2? nearly 8cm. long; rhachis 
hirsute; bract glabrous, its limb obovate, subsessile at its centre, 
1-5 mm. longer; ovary free, ovate, glabrous; stigmas 3, linear. 
Berry stipitate, ovate acute at the apex, black when dry, 5 mm. 
long, its stipe shorter. 
Perak : Larut, Goping on limestone hills, at 300-500 ft., April, 
King’s Collector 5906 ; Scortechini. 
45, Piper MURICATUM, Bl. in Verh. Batav. Nat. Genoots. XI. 219, 
f. 1 (1826) & Enum. Pl. Jav. fasc. I. 68; Mig. Syst. Pip. 326, Ill. Pip. 
55, t. 55, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. IV. 438 and FI. Ind. Bat. I. 
mepeso4 Cc. DC. in Prodr. XVI. 1. 34l'; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 
82.—Distris: Java, Sumatra. 
forma peninsulare, C. DC. n. f. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 17 
(1912). Herb or shrub up to 3°5 m. high. Branches densely hirsute. 
the spiciferous 3 mm. thick, hairs nearly 0-7 mm. long ; collenchyma 
nearly wholly libriform in distinct laterally widened bundles or 
continuous; a central and several peripheric lysigenous canals. 
Leaves moderately long petioled ; limb membranous when dry, up to 
17 em. long and 7 cm. wide, pilose on both surfaces, oblong-elliptic, 
shortly and subacutely acuminate, the base inequilateral and moder- 
ately cordate ; penninerved, the central nerve emitting on each side 
3---4 ascendent nerves, the uppermost from 5:°5—7:5 cm. above the 
base; petiole densely hirsute, up to 10 mm. long of which 2 mm. 
between the sides of the limb, sheath basal. Peduncle densely hirsute, 
as long as the petiole. Spike: 9 about 4 cm. long; rhachis hirsute ; 
bract glabrous, its limb obovate, 2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, with a 
thick pedicel containing gelified cells; ovary free, ovate, globose, 
subacute at the apex; stigmas 3—5, linear. Berry stipitate, ovate- 
globose, subacute at the apex, glabrous, black when dry, up to 4 mm. 
long, its stipe 2 mm. long. 
Prrak : Scortechini; Larut, Waterfall hill, at 500 ft. altitude, 
