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smooth or areolate: albumen mealy, fleshy or sub-cartilaginous, 

 solid or hoUow in the centre : embryo minute, half-immersed 

 at the apex of the albumen, antitropal : radicle short, superior : 

 cotyledons two, very short, obtuse, hypogseous in germination. 



GENTJS I. PEPEKOMIA. 



Diandrla Monogrynia. Sex; Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Ho-wers perfect, densely or loosely amentaceous : 

 bract petiqled or sub-sessile, persistent or deciduous : stamens 2, 

 lateral, free : germen ovate or oblong, sessile or sometimes half 

 immersed on the rhaches, 1 -celled : stigma imdivided, sessile or on 

 the stylifonn apex of the germen, sub-orbicular : berry sometimes 

 sessUe, sometimes pedicelled or stalked or contracted at the base, 

 obHquely ovate or sub-globose : seed conformable, erect : albumen 

 mealy. — Herbs, sometimes suffirutescent, erect or creeping, very 

 often rooting, branched, succulent : branches and leaves alternate, 

 opposite or verticelled, usually petioled, ribbed or many-nerved, 

 sometimes coloured, glabrous, pubescent or tomentose : aments 

 axillary, or spuriously terminal from the axils of the uppermost 

 leaves, or leaf-opposed, pedicelled, rhachis smooth or pitted. 



(1) P. DiNDIQTILElfSIS. (Miq.J 



Ident. Miquel syst. Piper. 63. 



Engram. Wight's Icon. t. 1921. 



Spec. Char. Erect, branches opposite : succulent, puberulous 

 or rarely glabrous : leaves shortly petioled, opposite (lower ones 

 sometimes alternate and the terminal ones temate) : elliptic, obovate, 

 or the larger ones rhombeo-obovate, acute at the base, rounded, obtuse 

 or shortly acuminate at the apex, 5-nerved, sparingly puberulous 

 or sometimes glabrous : catkins terminal, short peduncled, filiform 

 erect, flowers somewhat remote : stigma puberulous : berries globose. 



Pulney Mountains. AnamaUy HjUb. NeUgherries. 



(2) P. HEYtTEAlTA. (Mig.) 



Ideut. Miq. 1. c. 



Engran. "Wight 1. c. t, 1922—1. 



Spec. Chae. Erect, decumbent, and rooting below, succulent, 

 stem pilose or glabrous : leaves opposite, the upper ones in whorls 

 of three and four, lanceolate-eUiptio, obtuse or emarginate at the 

 apex, acute or cuneate at the base, glabrous, brown spotted, 

 sometimes slightly ciliate at the apex, 1 -nerved with smaller vein- 



