— ——á 
Peperomia.) CXXIV. PIPERACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 97 
or whorled, quite entire, pellucid-punctate, exstipulate. Spikes terminal or 
eaf-opposed, solitary or fascicled, rarely axillary. Flowers 2-sexual, minute, 
sessile or sunk in the rachis, often whorled, erect, bracteate. Perianth 0. 
Stamens 2, very short; anther-cells confluent. Ovary obtuse acute or beaked, 
l-celled; stigma lateral or terminal, usually penicillate; ovule A, erect. 
Fruit minute, indehiscent. Seed with a membranous testa.—Species 3-400, 
‘chiefly tropical and American. 
* Leaves alternate. (See also P. Wightiana.) 
l. P. exigua, Mig. Syst. Pip. 77, and FI. Ind. Bat. i. 2. 432; quite 
glabrous, stem very slender decumbent, leaves alternate petioled rounded- 
9vate-cordate or subdeltoid 5-7-nerved, tip rounded, spikes solitary axillary 
and terminal, fruit sessile, stigma terminal Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi 1 
403. Mieropiper exiguum, Miguel Comm. Phyt. 56, t. 9 D. Piper exiguum, 
Blume in Verh. Bat. Genoots. xi. 232. P. hyalinum, Wail. Cat. 6662. 
Burma; hills opposite Prome, Wallich.—DrisTRIB. Java, Philippines, ? West 
rica, : : 
Stems 3-6 in., sparingly branched. Leaves hyaline when dry, j-l in. diam., 
se sometimes truncate; petiole 4—1 in. Spikes j in, filiform. Fruit ovoid, 
ed, 
. 9. P. moulmeiniana, Cas. DC. in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1866, 140, and 
in DC. Prod». xvi. 1. 415 ; quite glabrous, stem succulent straggling, leaven 
alternate shortly petioled eltiptic-lanceolate obtuse 5-nerved from the base, 
Spikes slender panicled, fruit globose, stigma minute. 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. EE 
j qne tufted, 6-8 in. high, sparingly branched; branches divaricate. | Leaves 
24 in. long, succulent, nerves faint; petiole 1-j in. Spikes l-l} in. fF 
80 broad as the rachis, 
3, P. pseudo-rhombea, Cas. DC. in Prodr. xvi. 1. 440; quite gla- 
brous, Stem stout erect succulent, leaves alternate petioled fleshy elliptic- 
nceolate acute 3-nerved, spikes solitary axillary and terminal shorter tha 
e leaves, p. courtallensis, var. B., Thwaites Enum: 292. 
Cgvrow. : 5 ., Thwaites. . 
Slem simpl Y fos high ad tik asa goce quil. Leaver 2 i, narrowed into 
the short petiole, nerves obscure.—I have seen but one specimen, and in young 
ower only, 
4. P. Thomsoni, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, erect, branched, leaves 
alternate petioled Tlic sito otha S herved, spikes slender axillary 
and terminal. Peperomia No. 9, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. § T. Piper ovali- 
olium, Wall. Cat. 6663 B, the lower specimen. . - 
Di Decoay PENINSULA ; Nilghiri or Kurg Mts., G. Thomson; Courtallam, Wight; 
ndigul, alt, 2500 ft., Wight in Herb. Wall. ? CEYLON, Thwaites. | k as a swan's 
„Stem very stout, erect or ascending at the base, naked below, as thic Ar 7 Ate 
quill ; branches all reaching. about the same height, leafy. Leaves S ikes when 
fio, in. long, succulent, 3 principal nerves broad; petiole 4-3 in. tos in Herb 
Wering as long as the leaves much longer in fruit. —A specimen of this n Ho . 
mott is mentioned by Miquel (in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 549) as a giabr E 
be üriant, alternate-leaved var. of P. dindigulensis, from which it appears to me 
widely different, and to be very near pseudo -rhombea of Ceylon. 
ted Leay . 
OL, v, es mostly opposite or whorled. . E 
