e. uve See 
Aristolochia. } PIPERACEA. 891 
A slender, decumbent perennial. Hind. Kiramar, gan- 
dan, gandati; Uriya Panivri. 
1753. Aristonocuta mprca Linn. 5B: L480 PoBa we; 
In nearly all the provinces. 
mal ; 
1754. Artstotocuta TacaLa Cham. & Schlecht. A. acwminata 
PT 480; A; Roxburghiana F. B. I. v. 79. 
N. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A shrubby, twining perennial. 
1755. ArtsToLocnta saccata Wall. FB. Low 96; 
Chittagong. 
A stout, lofty, woody climber, with corky, fissured 
bark, 
Order CYII. PIPERACEA. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually aromatic. Leaves alternate or opposite 
or whorled, often gland-dotted ; stipules 0 or 2, connate or adnate 
to petiole. Flowers minute, hermaphrodite or 1-sexual, in axillary 
or terminal, catkin-like spikes, subtended by a peltate bract. 
P erianth 0. Stamens 2-6, rarely 7-8, hypogynous ; anthers often 
fi 
Ongitudinal. Carpels 3-4, forming a sessile or rarely stipitate 
often ovary 1-locular, 1-ovuled; ovules orthotropous; stigmas dis- 
€ on the free carpels or ovary-lobes, or terminal on the 
undivided ovary, occasionally solitary, sessile, terminal; simple 
°F penicillate. Fruit small, indehiscent in the 1-celled species, 
ovoid, or oblong; testa thin; albumen copious, floury ; embryo 
*nelosed in an amniotic cavity at the end of the albumen 
remote from the hilum; cotyledons minute or obsolete; radicle 
Superior. 
Anther-cells distinct ; fruit fairly conspicuous ; stigmas 3-5, confluent 
: Piper. 
Anther-cells confluent ; fruit minute; stigma usually penicillate 
