912 cviii. PIPERACE-E. ' [Piper 



streams. Cuango and Delamboa, rather rare ; fl. and fr. end of April 

 1855. No. 501. In fl. No. 6707. A herb, 2 to 4 ft. high ; nodes 

 reddish ; leaves very large, cordate, subpeltate ; spikes whitish, 

 dichotomously cymose. By streams near Sange ; fr. April 1855. Coll. 

 Carp. 939. 



PuNGO Andongo. — In the shady forests of Mata de Pango in the 

 presidium, sparingly ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 502. 



Welwitsoh saw the plant also about Muxaiilo. 



2. P. guineense Thonn. in Danske Vid. Selsk. iii. p. 39 (1828) > 

 0. DC, I.e., p. 343. 



P. Glusii C. DC, I.e., p. 340; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 245. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A suffrutioose herb, almost a shrub, climbing 

 high, or a shrub with its trunk an inch thick at the base and climbing 

 to a great height on trees attaching itself by means of root-like fibres 

 which are produced on all sides ; stem nodose ; leaves snbcoriaceous, 

 glossy, faintly green ; drupes baccate, aromatic. In very dense 

 elevated primitive forests in Sobato do Quilombo ; young plants, 

 without fl. or fr. Feb. 1856 ; in the elevated forests of Quilombo- 

 Quiacatubia, without fl. beginning of July 1855. No. 510. A robust 

 shrub ; trunk 2J in. in diameter at the base ; with adventitious roots 

 climbing high on Monodora Myristica Dun. (Welw. herb. no. 773, 

 etc.) ; berries brick -red. In the forests of Sobato de Bumba, and 

 more abundantly at Cucauengui in Sobato de Quilombo-Quiacatubia ; 

 fr. middle of July 1856. No. 508. A peppery shrub, climbing to a 

 great height. In the forests of Quilombo-Quiacatubia, 1856 ; specimens 

 of the stem. Coll. Carp. 983. A tall climbing shrub ; berries brick- 

 red ; seeds strongly aromatic-aorid ; fr. 1856. Coll. Carp. 940. 



Island of St. Thomas. — Berries round, orange in colour, called 

 " pimenta " (pepper). In dense forests at Fazenda de Monte CafE6 ; 

 fr. Dec. 1860. No. 509 and Coll. Carp. 941. 



This plant is called " Jih^fo " or " Jih^fu," pronounced ShihefUf 

 and furnishes true pepper a little smaller than the Indian pepper. 

 The negroes call Urera sp. (Welw. herb. nos. 6268, 6279) wild or 

 bastard Jih^fo. 



2. PEPEROMIA Euiz & Pavon; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PL iii. p. 132. 



1. P. pellucida H. B. & K. ISTov. Gen. & Sp. i. p. 64 (1815) ;. 

 C DC in DC. Prodr. xvi. 1, p. 402 (1869). 



Piper pelluddum L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 30 (1753). 



Ambriz. — In the rocky forest between Ambriz and Quizembo^ 

 100 to 150 ft. alt. ; Nov. 1857. Only one specimen saved during^ 

 flight under pursuit by the Musulos. Apparently this species. No. 506. 



Cazengo. — A succulent, annual herb ; stems more or less decumbent 

 or ascending, pale green, almost glassy-hyaline, angular, the angles 

 decurrent from the sheaths of the leaves, narrowly winged ; leaves 

 somewhat fleshy, green above, greenish white beneath, beset with very^ 

 slender papillse or hairs ; ripe seeds fairly minute, blackish, almost 

 precisely spherical. In very shady primitive forests by streams in. 

 Serra de Muxaftlo ; rather rare ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1855. No. 504. 



2. P. exigua Miq. Syst. Piper, p. 77 (1843). 



Piper exiguum Blume in Verh. Batav. Gen. xi. p. 232 (1826). 

 Micropiper exiguum Miq. Comm. Phyt. p. 55, t. 9, f. d (1840). 



