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P. Betle, Linn. Betel. Climbing, nearly or quite glabrous: lvs. large and thick, ovate-oblong, acuminate, usually oblique at base, strongly 5-7-nerved: spikes often 4-0 in. long: fr. very fleshy, often cohering into a long-cylindrical mass. Eastern tropics. Lvs. of this and others chewed by natives with the betel-nut.—P. metallicum, Hort. (Hallier?). Lvs. thick, rounded, handsome metallic green. Borneo.—P. officinarum, C. DC. (Chavica offcinarum, Hort.?) has long-elliptic somewhat slarp -pointed feather-veined coriaceous lvs. ana globular united berries in a dense spike. India and Malaya.—P. porphy. rophyllum. N. E. Br. (Cissus porphyrophylla, Lindl., and of horticulturists). Handsome climbing foliage plant with broadly cordate-oval short-pointed lvs. that are purple beneath and bronzy green and pink-spotted along the veins above. Probably E. Indies. —P. rubronodosum. Bull. Shrub, with red-jointed roughish sts.: lvs. cordate-ovate, somewhat blistered, silvery gray, the petiole pubescent. Colombia. —P. rubrovenosum, Hort. Climbing: lvs. cordate-ovate, acuminate, marked with rose-colored dots and streaks along the veins. Very like P. ornatum, and perhaps not distinct. Papua.
P. Betle, Linn. Betel. Climbing, nearly or quite glabrous: lvs. large and thick, ovate-oblong, acuminate, usually oblique at base, strongly 5-7-nerved: spikes often 4-0 in. long: fr. very fleshy, often cohering into a long-cylindrical mass. Eastern tropics. Lvs. of this and others chewed by natives with the betel-nut.—P. metallicum, Hort. (Hallier?). Lvs. thick, rounded, handsome metallic green. Borneo.—P. officinarum, C. DC. (Chavica offcinarum, Hort.?) has long-elliptic somewhat slarp -pointed feather-veined coriaceous lvs. ana globular united berries in a dense spike. India and Malaya.—P. porphy. rophyllum. N. E. Br. (Cissus porphyrophylla, Lindl., and of horticulturists). Handsome climbing foliage plant with broadly cordate-oval short-pointed lvs. that are purple beneath and bronzy green and pink-spotted along the veins above. Probably E. Indies. —P. rubronodosum. Bull. Shrub, with red-jointed roughish sts.: lvs. cordate-ovate, somewhat blistered, silvery gray, the petiole pubescent. Colombia. —P. rubrovenosum, Hort. Climbing: lvs. cordate-ovate, acuminate, marked with rose-colored dots and streaks along the veins. Very like P. ornatum, and perhaps not distinct. Papua.
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syn. Macropiper (long or large piper). Piperaceae. A few shrubs of the Pacific Isls., by some included in Piper, but separated by the monopodial rather than sympodial growth of the flowering shoots, and by minor characters. Probably none is in the trade, although a form of the following is mentioned in recent horticultural literature. M. excelsum, Miq. (Piper excelsum, Forst.). Glabrous densely branched aromatic shrub or small tree to 20 ft., in Tahiti, Norfolk Isl., New Zeal., and elsewhere: branches jointed and swollen: lvs. alternate, stalked, broad-ovate or broader, 7-nerved, yellow-green, the petiole winged below: spikes dense, solitary or in 2s, bearing minute unisexual fls.; stamens 2 or 3; stigmas 3 or 4: fr. small yellow berries, densely compacted! Var. aureo-pictum, Hort., has a large cream-colored or yellow blotch on the lf. For M. methysticum, Hook & Arn., and further discussion, see Piper.
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