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(1) C. PEBPITLOrDES. {Miq.J 



Ident. Miq. 1. c. t, 1927. 



Syn. Piper peepuloides, Roxb.jkr. Ind. I. 157. 



Spec. Chae. Young parts puberulous : leaves membranaceous,' 

 pellucid-dotted, glabrous, lower ones ovate, equal-sided, rounded at 

 the base, acuminate at the apex, septuple or 7-nerved; upper ones 

 oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, unequal-aided, slightly unequal at 

 the base, acute or acuminate at the apex, quintuplernerved : male 

 catkins short-peduncled, straight or curved, much shorter than the 

 leaves : bracts shortly pedicelled, peltate, orbicular. 



SiUiet. Khasia hiUs. 



(2) C. STLVATICA. (Mig.) 



Ident. Miq. 1. c. t, 1930 



Byn. Piper sylvaticum, Roxb. I. c. p. 158. 



SoEC. Chae. Stem fruticose, scandent, glabrous, leaves petioled, 

 equally cordate, obtuse, base of the lobes broad orbicular, 5 — 7- 

 nerved, ' glabrous : male catkins shortly peduncled, slender, female, 

 short, cylindrical : stamens four. 



Assam. Khasia hills. 



(3) C. SPHCEEOSTACHTA. (Miq.J 



Ident. Miq. 1. c. t, 1931. 



Spec. Ceae. Glabrous: leaves somewhat coriaceous, scarcely 

 pellucid-dotted, elliptic, unequal-sided, acute, or cuneate at the 

 base, acuminate, acumen blunt, sometimes mucronate, septuple- 

 nerved: male catkins filiform, female globose: bracts pedicelled, 

 orbiculate : stigmas thin, short, recurved, connate at the base. 



NeHgherries in flower and fruit all the year, climbing over trees. 



GEITUS V. MULDEEA. 



Dloeda Deeandria. Sex: Syst: 



Gen. Chae. Plowers dioecious, amentaceous, each bursting from 

 a fleshy, gibbous cup, at first closed and afterwards transvereley 

 cleft and somewhat helmet-shaped 2-lobed. Males. Stamens 

 5 — 10, in one or two rows, mixed with bristle-shaped hairs : 

 filaments short, thick, anthers ovate, cells separated by a thick 

 connectivum. Eemiaxes. Germen sub-globose : stigmas 3 — 4, linear, 

 puberulous : berries sub-globose, supported by a fleshy cup : seed 

 conformable, hUum broad : albumen radiate, homy at the circum- 

 ference, mealy in the centre. — Shrubs, arborescent, erect or 

 climbing : leaves alternate, petioled, coriaceous, glabrous, tripU- 

 septupU-nerved : flowers on a rachis at first as if naked, with closed 

 bracts, afterwards thickened : berries large, rather remote, red. 



