400 PIPERACEAE 
1. S. cernuus L. Stems 3-12 dm. tall: leaf- 
the base, 8-15 em. , acuminate, petioled 
racemes 1-2 dm. long: filame elavate, 
mm. long: fruit depressed, the 
earpels about 2 mm. high—(Li ARD'S- 
TAIL.)—Swamps, wet woods, streams, and 
cng various provinces, Fla. to Tex., 
Minn., Ont., and R. I.— — Spr. —Sum.—The in- 
orescence is white or creamy- -whit he 
flowe re fr en nt. The rootstocks are 
very onus 
Famity 2. PIPERACEAE — Psprrr FAMILY 
rbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaf-blades mostly fleshy or leathery. 
nd 
3 or rarely more united carpels, the ovary l-celled. Fruit Aa iaa E 
About 6 genera we over 1000 species, mostly in the tropies 
Flowers and p (bracts) separated on the rachis: berries 
distant, beakle 1. MICBOPIPER. 
Flowers and scales (bracts) contiguous on the rachis: berries 
crowded into a solid mass on the rachis, beaked. 2. RYNCHOPHORUM. 
1. MICROPIPER Miq. E sueculents with annual erect stems 
from horizontal stoloniferous o ae mostly opposite, deciduous: 
blades soft-fleshy and rather thin, Su cues Spikes loosely-flowered. Rachis 
not honeycombed. Flowers i fruits ie on the rachis. Ovary rounded 
at the apex, topped by the tufted stigma. Bracts peltate, scale-like. Stamens 
2. Berry beakless, not immersed in the rachis, very viscid—About 60 species, 
mostly in tropical regions.—WILD-PEPPERS. PEPEROMIAS.—The inflorescence 
is green. 
Blades of the upper leaves oval, varying to ovate, or obovate: 
bractlets crenulate. 1. M. leptostachyon. 
Blades of the upper leaves elliptic, varying to elliptic-ovate or 
elliptic-obovate : bractlets even-edged. 2. M. humile. 
1. M. R (Nuit.) Small. Terrestrial, the stems mostly 1- 
e tall: blades of the lower irum leaves obdeltoid to broadly cuneate, 3-6 
. long, founded truneate, or emarginate, 
shini ing above: spikes about 1 mm. thick, 
mostly 2-8 cm. long: bracts fully 0.5 m 
long: berry obovoid. [Piper leptostachyon 
Nutt. Peperomia leptostachya Chapm. 
cumaulicola | Small]-— Moe cam _and 
aboriginal village ast 
ud i rn Va ‘along m ‘Withinoochee 
Riv Fla.—Wint.—Abundant only o 
well "drained shell mounds oad die non 
on a light hum 
2. M. humile (Vahl) Small. Terrestrial, 
the stems mostly 2-7 dm. tall: blad of 
the lower eauline leaves ee varying to 
broader above the middle or below it, or 
individually pan aie 1-5 e "long, rounded, 
