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ticatory; chai {Piper Chaba), also a stout climber, the 

 wood of which is used as a pungent condiment; 

 pipool or Long Pepper {Piper longum), a slender 

 creeper; gol-marich or Black F&^pev {Piper nigrum), 

 also a climber ; kabab-chini is Piper caninum of Java, 

 a kind of marich used 

 with pan for its volatile 



Fig. 247, — Peferonua reflexa 



Fig. 248. — Hoiiiiu}<nia cordata 



, Spike, i. Spike enlarged, r, One y, Spike with a whorl of four white bracts 

 flower, o. Ovary, i, Stamen. (i) at its base. 



oil (fig. 246). Peperomia reflexa (fig. 247) is a com- 

 mon herbaceous tufted weed of waste lands. Hout- 

 tuynia cordata (fig. 248) is an erect herb of waste 

 lands in the Khasi Hills, having a spike with four 

 big white bracts below it, which may be mistaken 

 for the perianth. 



Piperacece are characterized by an abnormal struc- 



