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CXV. PIPE RACEME. 
[Piper. 
petioles I in. long. Peduncles *5 in. long ; racemes 1-5 in. long, very- 
slender puberulous velvety. Receptacles stipitate, distant, velvety 
puberulous, rounded. Stamens 5, anthers minute. Berry globose. 
Hab. Forests, Singapore (Maingay). Malacca (Maingay). Selangor, 
Klang; Dusun Tua (Ridley). 
(7) P. rarispicum C. DC. Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. vi. 27; Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 336. 
Glabrous. Leaves ovate to elliptic acute both ends, base in 
lower leaves rounded, 7-nerved, 275 to 3-25 in. long, 1*5 to 2 in. 
wide; petioles -2 in. long. Spikes very slender, sub-terminal, 
3 in. long, tomentose, pubescent. Receptacles stipitate elliptic. 
Stamens 2, anthers obovate. Hab. Hill forests, local. Penang, 
Government Hill; Road to Sungei Penang (Curtis). 
(8) P. schizonephros C. DC. Prod. xvi. 1, 241; Journ . As. 
Soc. Beng. l.c. 337 
Slender, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous elliptic-lanceolate, nar¬ 
rowed to both ends acute, 5-nerved, one pair from base, 475 in. 
long, 2 in. wide; petioles -4 in. long. Spikes slender, subterminal, 
7 in. long. Flowers distant; rachis pubescent. Receptacles 
stalked, reniform. Stamens 8, anthers 4-valved. Hab. Malacca, 
Ching (Griffith). Penang Hill (Curtis). 
§ 2. Cubeba. 
(9) P. muricatum Bl. Verb. Bat. Nat. Gensoots. xi. 219, fig. 1; 
Miq. III. Pip. 55, t. 55. P. muricatum var. peninsulare C. DC. 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. l.c. 325. 
A shrubby, hairy herb 2 ft. tall. Leaves membranous, oblong- 
elliptic to nearly ovate, shortly acuminate, base narrowed blunt 
rounded, usually very unequal, hairy on both sides, but most so 
on the nerves of the underside; nerves 2 from base short, 2 to 4 
above, ascending; 7 to 8 in. long, 4 to 5 in. wide; petioles hirsute, 
■25 to 1-25 in. long. Peduncles hairy, -25 in. long. Male spikes 
slender, 3*5 in. long. Bracts usually glabrous, oblong-obovate 
with a short, thick pedicel. Female spikes 2 to 4 in. long; stigmas 
3 to 5, linear. Drupe ovoid-globose, yellow turning red, -12 in. 
through when dry; pedicel usually very short but sometimes as 
long as the drupe and slender. Hab. Forests. Common. Malacca 
(Griffith). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur; Ulu Gombak; Sungei 
Buloh; Semangkok Pass; Menuang Gasing (Kloss, a large round¬ 
leaved form with long fruit pedicels). Perak, Thaiping Hills. 
Distrib, Java, Sumatra, Borneo. Native name: Kerubut Paya. 
This plant varies a good deal in the amount of hairiness, form of leaves 
and in the length of fruit pedicel. Most of our plants have the short thick 
pedicel of Miquel's type, but specimens occur with a long slender one. I 
am quite unable to separate these forms, even varietally. DeCandolle 
makes our plant a variety peninsulare, but I have met with forms identical 
with Miquel's figure and specimens. He gives two forms of it, pilistipes 
and pilosior Miq., but they seem all to occur together in the Selangor forests. 
