326 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
with fruit sealing-wax red, Ridley 11025; at 100—2000 ft. altitude 
with fruit yellowish red, King’s Collector 1958, 2880; at Jenan Wray 
1757; SELANGOR: Pahang Track, Ridley 8531. 
jorma pilistipes, C. DC. 1. c. 18 about 60 cm. high; limb sub- 
obovate-elliptic acutely acuminate, rounded and slightly inequilateral 
at the base. Berry red when living, its stipe hirtillous. 
Perak: Waterfall hill, in rocky localities, rich soil, King’s Collec- 
tor 4869 ; Wray 2076, 4237. SeLancor: Kwala Lumpur, Ridley 4685. 
forma pilosior Miq. in Linn. xxi, 485; limb elliptic or subovate- 
elliptic, moderately and acutely acuminate, equilateral] and cordate 
at the base, densely fulvescent-hirsute on both surfaces. 
SELANGcor : May, Ridley 7610.—DistrRis. Java, Sumatra. 
46. PreER PROTRACTUM, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 18 
(1912). Dicecious or moneecious and then with androgynous spikes. 
Branches densely hirsute, with hairs 1 mm. long, the spiciferous 
nearly 6mm. thick; collenchyma continuous, partly libriform; a cen- 
tral and many peripheric lysigenous canals. Leaves shortly petioled ; 
limb, 20°8—33-8 cm. long, 4:2—5°6 cm. wide, pilose on both surfaces 
especially along the nerves, oblong, subacutely acuminate, the base 
cordulate and slightly inequilateral ; penninerved, the central nerve 
emitting on each side 4 nerves, the upper ones ascendent and 
opposite, the lower subascendent and much thinner than the others ; 
petiole hirsute underneath, 10 mm. long of which 6 mm. between 
the sides of the limb, sheath prolonged above the base. Peduncle 
hirsute, about 12 mm. long. Spike: nearly 8°7 cm. long, with male 
flowers in its upper portion when androgynous, rhachis hirsute ; bract 
glabrous, obovate, more or less attenuate towards its lower end, with 
a very short and thick pedicel; ovary free, ovate, glabrous; stigmas 
3—4 linear. Berry globose, acute at the apex, 4 mm. long, its stipe 
nearly of same length. 
JoHORE: Gunong Pulai, Castlewood, Ridley. Srincaporr : 
Sungei Jurong, Ridley 5888 ; Chan-Chu-Kang, Ridley 6723. 
47. PIPER BIPEDALE, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 19 
(1912). Erect, 60cm. high. Branches hirsute, the spiciferous 2 mm. 
thick ; collenchym in distinct and laterally widened bundles, not libri- 
form; a central and many peripheric lysigenous canals. Leaves 
moderately long-petioled ; limb membranous when dry, hirsute on the 
nerves above and on the whole lamina underneath, 20 cm. long and 
up to 7 cm. wide, obovate-oblong, acutely acuminate; the base 
