392 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
of it one ascendent nerve free from the base; petiole 6-3 mm. long, 
densely hirtillous. Peduncle nearly glabrous, 8:4 mm. long, slender. 
Spike: 3 nearly 14 cm. long, 1:5 mm. thick; rhachis hirsute; bract 
glabrous, its limb rounded, nearly 1 mm. in diam.; stamens 2, 
anthers ovate, 4-valvate, nearly as long as the oblong filaments. 
PERAK: at Larut, 1800—3000 ft., August, King’s Collector 
32071. 
58. PIPER SUBSESSILILIMBUM, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. 
VI. 24 (1902). Scandent, cirrhi ramulose. Branches glabrous, dry- 
ing brown, the spiciferous nearly 1 mm. thick ; collenchyma libriform, 
in distinct laterally much widened bundles; a central and many peri- 
pherice lysigenous canals; very abundant dark brown cells in bark 
and pith. Leaves subsessile, glabrous ; limb membranous when dry, 
minutely pellucid-dotted, up to 19 cm. long and 5 em. wide, sub- 
obovate-elliptic-oblong, acutely and moderately long acuminate, the 
base attenuate, shorter on one side; penninerved, the central nerve 
emitting on each side from nearly all its length about 20 thin sub- 
spreading nerves; petiole 3 mm. long of which 1 mm. between the 
sides of the limb, sheath hasal. Peduncie glabrous, 8-4 mm. long. 
Spike: 3g still juvenile, nearly 6 cm. long, up to 2 mm. thick, 
yellow when living; rhachis hirtillous ; bract glabrous, its limb longi- 
tudinally elliptic with a short central pedicel. 
Perak: near Goping in dense jungle, August, King’s Collector 
578. 
59. PipprR opovantTHeruM, C. DC.in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI.. 
24 (1912). Branches glabrous, dark brown when dry, the spicifercus 
1 mm. thick, in branches 2 mm. thick; collenchyma libriform, in 
distinct bundles; a single central lysigenous canal. Leaves moderately 
long-petioled, glabrous ; limb membranous when dry, elliptic, up to 
14 cm. long and 9 cm. wide; elliptic, acutely acuminate, the base 
siibrounded slightly longer on one side; 7-plinerved, the central 
nerve emitting 2 ascendent nerves, the uppermost from nearly 12 
mm. above the base, and having on each side of it 2 ascendent 
nerves free from the base ; petiole 12 mm. long of which 2 mm. be- 
tween the sides of the limb, sheath basal. Peduncle glabrous, nearly 
19 mm. long, very slender. Spike: 3 about 52 mm. long and nearly 
1 mm. thick when flowering ; rhachis hirtillous; bract adnate, obovate- 
oblong, subattenuate at the lower end, obtuse at the apex, minutely 
ciliate at the margins otherwise glabrous, 2°5 mm. long, up to 1 mm. 
