University of Illinois at Chicago 
PLANTS OF JAVA 
PIPERACEAE 
Piper aduncum L. 
Det. By: A. McDonald, January 5, 1993 
Field Char: Branching, soft-wooded, shrubby tree, 
to 3 m tall; trunk smooth; branching from base; 
young stems yellow-green, swollen at nodes. 
Locality: Ujung Kular Reserve, Genung Cibinua, 
Base camp 3 km E of Taman Jaya, Taman Jaya 
River watershed. 
Habitat: Above river valley ca. 200 m, N side, 
on ridge in secondary forest with Aralidium, Albizia, 
Ficus, Nauclea, Piper, etc. 
100-150 m,006°12’S X 105°30’E 
A. McDonald & Afriastini 3337, May 11, 1992 
This is a voucher specimen for 
anticancer and anti-AIDS screening 
NCI Sample Number(s): U44Z3552-V, U44Z3553-W 
U44Z3554-X. 
Collected under the sponsorship of: U.S. National Cancer 
Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, Arnold 
Arboretum (Harvard University), Field Museum of 
Natural History and Herbarium Bogoriense, LIPI. 
Please notify Field Museum Herbarium of any new 
determination of this collection, specifying that 
it is a University of Illinois at Chicago voucher. 
