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slightly inequilateral, rounded on the longer, attenuate on the shorter 
side; penninerved, the central nerve emitting on each side 4—5 nerves 
of which the 2 uppermost ascendent, the others less so and much 
thinner ; petiole densely hirsute, up to 14 mm. long of which 4 mm. 
between the sides of the limb. Pedwnele hirsute, 12 mm. long. 
Spikes: 9 about 32 mm. long, green when flowering; rhachis 
hirsute ; bract glabrous, its limb obovate, 1:5 mm. long, with a central 
and thick pedicel containing gelified cells; ovary free, glabrous, 
ovate-acuminate ; stigmas 3, linear and acute. Berry stipitate, 
ovate-globose, acute at the apex, black when dry, 4 mm. long, its 
stipe much shorter. 
PERAK : at 300 it. altitude, Wray 3%10. 
48, PIPER RIDLEYI, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 19 
(1912). Erect, herb or shrub 2—8 ft. high. Branches densely hirsute 
with hairs nearly 1 mm. long, the spiciferous 4 mm. thick ; collenchy- 
ma sparingly libriform in distinct bundles; a central and many peri- 
pheric lysigenous canals; sclerosed cells in the bark. Leaves shortly 
petioled ; Jimb membranous when dry, nearly 25 cm. long and 12 cm. 
wide, hirsute on both surfaces ; lanceolate-elliptic, acutely acuminate, 
the base acute and nearly equilateral ; penninerved, the central 
nerve emitting on each side 5 ascendent nerves, the uppermost from 
about 6-5 cm. above the base ; petiole hirsute, up to 10°5 mm. long. 
Peduncle hirsute, up to 1:4 cm. long in the male and up to 2:2 cm. in 
the female. Spike: 3 nearly 10°5 cm. long and 2 mm. thick ; rhachis 
hirsute ; bract glabrous, obovate, subacute at the base with a short 
thick pedicel containing gelified cells; stamens 2, anthers rounded: 
2 a little shorter than in the male; rhachis hirsute; bract gla- 
brous, obovate, up to 2 mm. long and 1°5 mm. wide with pedicel 
as in the male; ovary free, glabrous; stigmas 4, linear, acute. Berry 
globose, glabrous, shorter than its puberulous stipe. 
Perak: Maxwell’s hill, Curtis 2047 ; Waterloo, Curtis 2697!; rich 
scil, rocky locality, at 1000-1500 ft. altitude, August, King’s Collector 
10784; Gunong Batu Putih, lower camp, alt. 3400 ft.. Wray 428. 
SELANGOR: Ginting Peras, May, Ridley 7690; 15tb mile along Pahang 
track, Ridley 8519; 
forma b, branches with a continuous and nearly quite libriform 
collenchyma; spikes androgynous, the inferior flowers bisexual, the 
superior male. 
PERAK : dense bamboo forest, at 500—700 ft. altitude, near Ulu 
