Peperomia. | CXII, PIPERACEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 151 
shortly peduncled, lateral and terminal; bracts orbicular, peltate, 
glandular. Anthers elliptic, about as long as the filaments. Ovary 
turbinate, obtuse, obliquely flattened; stigma oblique. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Buena, in woods, 4000 ft., Preuss, 863. 
Var. tenuispicata, Engl. Spikes very slender. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 3097 ! 
_ 9. P. vulcanica, Baker & C.H. Wright. Stems creeping and root- 
ing at the base, then ascending to a height of 6 in., stout, fleshy, glabrous. 
Leaves distinctly petioled, alternate, oblong or ovate, 1—2 in. long by half 
as broad, obtuse, cuneate at the base, thick, opaque, glabrous on both 
surfaces, distinctly triplinerved from the base. Spikes lateral and 
terminal, shortly peduncled, 14-2 in. long; rhachis pitted, glabrous ; 
bracts round-peltate, glabrous. Ovary sessile, globose ; stigma minute, 
terminal, oblique.—P. monticola, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soe, vii. 217; 
€. DC, in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 422; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 188, 
not of Mig. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: lava fields on Cameroon Mountain, 8000 ft., 
Mann, 1305! 
10. P. Holstii, C. DC. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 226. Perennial, 
growing on old tree-trunks. Stems rooting at the base, then ascending, 
1-2 ft. long, slender, glabrous. Leaves aiternate, distinctly petioled, 
ovate, 1-2 in. long, subacute or obtuse, rounded or cuneate at the base, 
moderately firm, indistinctly 5-nerved from the base, opaque, obscurely 
pellucid-punctate, glabrous on both surfaces. Spikes leaf-opposed or 
terminal, shortly peduncled, very slender, 2-3 in. long; rhachis pitted 5 
bracts orbicular, peltate, subsessile. Berry globose, } lin. long, sessile ; 
stigma terminal.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 913. P. fernando- 
poana, var. subopacifolia, C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i, 397, and in Engl. 
Jahrb. xix. 2273 var. acutifolia, C. DC. in Engl. le. P. Zenkeri, 
€. DC. in Engl. 1c. 226. 
Upper Guinea, Gold Coast, Johnson, 176! Cameroons: Yaunde, 2500 ft., 
Zenker & Staudt, 59! Zenker, 619, 1401! Buea, 3000 ft., Preuss, 886, 1060! 
Bipinde, Zenker, 17833! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: in forests at Fazenda de Monte Caffé, 
'1800 ft., Welwitsch, 507! Angola: Pungo Andongo; on rocks in Mata de Pungo 
in the Presidium, Welwitsch, 505! i 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usambara, Holst, 8832! 
11. P. ulugurensis, ngl. Jahrb. xxviii. 374. Asmallherb, Stems 
glabrous, decumbent at the base, then ascending, slightly branched, 4 in. 
long. Leaves few, alternate, petioled, oblong, about 6 lin. long, 3-4 lin. 
wide, rather thick, ciliate at the apex, glabrous elsewhere; midrib and 
main veins indistinct ; petiole 4 lin. long. Spike terminal, 10 lin. long, 
3 lin. in diam.; peduncle 4~7 lin. long; bracts orbicular, peltate, sub- 
sessile. Ovary depressed subovoid; stigma terminal. Berry } lin. in 
diam. 
