Piper.] cxv. piperace^e. 41 
nerves 7 radiating from base, dark green, 3 to 3*5 in. long, 1-25 to 
3 in. across; petioles 1*5 in. long. Peduncles -5 to -75 in. long. 
Spikes short, dense, blunt, white cylindric, males -25 in. long; 
females about as long, thicker and up to -5 in. long. Drupes 
minute. Hab. Banks and cultivated ground, Singapore, Tanglin; 
Pulau Burn. Johor, Kota Tinggi. Malacca (Griffith), a pubescent 
form, the shoots and nerves beneath pubescent. Pahang, Pekan; 
Kwala Tahan (Seimund). Selangor, Langat. Penang, Pulau 
Betong (Curtis). Lankawi. Native name: Kadok. Distrib. Java. 
§ 4. Pseudochavica, 
(38) P. bcehmerisefolium Wall. Cat. 6654. 
Erect shrub, with green smooth stems, 3 ft. tall, branched, 
internodes over 1 ft. long in main stems, upper branches slender, 
1 ft. long or more, entirely glabrous. Leaves thin membranous, 
lanceolate-oblong acuminate, base hardly narrowed very unequal, 
one side -i in. wide, the other 75 in. wide at base; nerves 3 on 
the broad side, 2 on the narrow one with sub-parallel branched 
transverse nervules rather distant and inarching widely; 6 in. long, 
2 in. wide; petioles *25 in. long. Male spikes cylindric, slender, 
1 to 6 in. long, white on a peduncle -5 in. long. Bracts round, 
peltate shortly pedicelled. Stamens 2. Female spikes 4 in. long. 
Fruits crowded, globose sessile red, under *i in. through when dry. 
Hab. Forests. Pahang, Gunong Senyum (Evans). Negri Sem- 
bilan, Bukit Tangga. Perak, Larut (Kunstler, fide DC.); Gunong 
Inas (Yapp). Distrib. Sylhet, Burma. 
DeCandolle’s description, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., l.c. 305, hardly fits this 
plant, and he adds the totally distinct climbing Cubebas, P. lanatum and some 
forms of P. caninum as varieties. 
(39) P. cyrtostachys Ridl. Journ. Roy. . 4 s. Soc. S. Br. 82, 
p. 189. 
An erect, glabrous herb hardly ever branched, about 2 ft. tall; 
stems zigzag, jointed, nodes not swollen, internodes 2 in. long. 
Leaves membranous, broadly lanceolate acuminate, acute, base 
very unequally cordate, one lobe often -15 in. longer than the other, 
rounded, penninerved, 2 main nerves on one side, one on the other 
from the base of the midrib; 4*5 in. long, 175 in. wide; petioles 
1*1 in. long. Male spikes slender, cylindric, blunt, 1 in. long on 
a 1*5 in. long peduncle. Bracts round, glabrous. Stamens 2 ; 
filaments hardly longer than the bract; anther oblong-globose. 
Fruiting spikes, pedicels 1*5 in. long; rachis about 1 in. long, 
curled into a horse-shoe with numerous crowded drupes sessile in 
cup-shaped pits sub-globose with a short rounded stigma, orange 
yellow. Hab. Forests at 4000 ft. altitude. Perak, Gunong 
Berumbun near Telom (Ridley). 
(40) P. oreophilum Ridl. Journ. Roy. .4s. Soc. S. Br. 82, 
p. 189. 
Erect, shrubby closely brown-hairy. Leaves lower ovate 
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