150 CXIII, PIPERACE# (BAKER AND WRIGHT). | Peperomia. 
surfaces, ciliolate on the margins, 5-nerved, thinly membranous when 
dry, pellucid-punctate; petiole 5 lin. long. Spikes terminal, about 
twice as long as the leaf-blade, filiform, not very densely flowered ; 
peduncle 1 in. long ; bracts orbicular, peltate, subsessile. Ovary ovoid, 
not immersed in the rhachis; stigma terminal. Berry sessile, globose, 
roughly glandular when dry. 
Upper Guinea. Togo: in damp shady places at MisahOhe, Bawmann, 205. 
This is very closely allied to P, Molleri, from which it differs in having ciliolate 
leaves and a terminal stigma. 
5. P. Molleri, C. DC. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 154. Stem creeping 
at the base, glabrous ; branches narrowly winged, $ lin.in diam. Leaves 
alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 14 in. long, 1 in. wide, acute, narrowed to 
the base, membranous and subpellucid when dry, 5-nerved, glabrous on 
both surfaces; petiole 7 in. long. Spikes terminal‘and lateral, dense, 
24 in. long; peduncle twice as long as the petiole; rhachis glabrous; 
bracts orbicular. Ovary ovoid; stigma terminal, minute, oblique. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas ; Macambrara, 3000-4000 ft., Moller, 
6. P. ruwenzoriensis, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. 278. 
A climbing herb. Stems when young and petioles slightly pilose. 
Leaves alternate, lanceolate or ovate, acute, thin when dry, sparingly 
pilose on the under-surface, up to nearly 2 in. long and 1} in. wide, 
usually smaller; petiole about 4 lin. long. Spikes 2 in. long, much 
longer than the leaves, in the axils of the upper leaves and terminal ; 
peduncle moderately long ; bracts orbicular. Flowers greenish-white. 
Ovary impressed in the rhachis, broadly obovate, obtuse. Berry 4 lin. 
long, broadly ovate, brown, glandular, 
Nile Land. Uganda: Ruwenzori, 7000 ft., Wollaston, 7000-8000 ft., on tree- 
trunks, Scott-Hiliot, 7862, partly ! 
7. P. magilensis, Baker. Stem stout, glabrous, decumbent at the 
base, then shortly ascending. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, oblong- 
lanceolate, 1-1} in. long by half as broad, acute, cuneate at the base, 
moderately thick, opaque, glabrous on both surfaces, distinctly tripli- 
nerved from the base. Spikes terminal and lateral, slender, 2-3 in. 
long; peduncle glabrous, 1 in. long; rhachis pitted, glabrous; bracts 
orbicular; flowers distant, minute. Stamens 2, lateral; filaments 
slender, much longer than the globose anthers. Ovary ovoid, sessile ; 
stigma terminal. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara; Magila, Kirk ! 
8. P. Preussii, C. DC. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 226. Stems rooting 
at the base, then ascending, 1 lin. in diam. when dry, densely clothed 
with long hairs in the lower part, subglabrous upwards. Leaves 
alternate, ovate-lanceolate, nearly 2 in. long by half as broad, acuminate, 
obtuse or rounded at the base, firm when dried, subopaque, 5-nerved, 
pilose especially on the under-surface; petiole 24 lin. long.. Spikes 
