PIPERACEAE 401 
obtuse, or aeutish, dull d e: spikes about 2 mm. thick, mostly 5-12 em. 
long: braets less than 1 mm. long: berrry in uh ovoi [Pe peromia humilis 
Vahl|—Hammoeks, pen. Fla. —(W. I)— —Win hrives s equally well in the 
marl of the Cape Sable region whieh is PC i ut half of each year and 
on the a dunes of the eastern coast which are dry except for the rain that 
falls ther 
2. RHYNCHOPHORUM (Miq.) e Coriaceous perennials with 
diffusely creeping stems, sometimes vine Leaves alternate, persistent: 
blades firm-succulent and thick, glabrous. ae closely and densely-flowered. 
Rachis honeyeombed. Flowers and fruits partly imbedded in deep pits of the 
rachis. Bracts peltate. Stamens 2. Ovary narrowed at the apex, terminated 
by a lon "d beak bog has a minute stigma near its base. Berry beaked, 
art rachis, not viscid or us slightly so.—About 60 
Species, Ud. Pea in the tropics.—PEPEROMIAS.—The inflorescence 
is green. 
Leaf-blades obovate, varying to oval, ovate, or suborbicular, or cuneate-obovate : spikes 
stout, stiffly erect, mostly simple: berry with a body of a 
cylindric type. I. OBTUSIFOLIA. 
Leaf-blades m cuneate to spatulate: spikes slender, nod- 
x mostly nched: berry with a body of an ovoid or an 
zal type. II. SPATHULIFOLIA. 
I. OBTUSIFOLIA 
Mn E d cuneate-obovate, clus about 1 dm. 
lon 1. R. obtusifolium. 
Leaf-blades b picativ oval to suborbicular, varying es pees 
above the middle or below it, less than 1 dm. lon 2. R. floridanum. 
PATHULIF 
Terrestrial humus- herbs with cuneate to mines Taide 
and branching nodding pale spikes. 3. R. spathulifolium. 
1. R. obtusifolium (L.) Smal. Epiphytie, the stems very stout, the branches 
often elongate and vine-like: leaf-blades spatulate-obovate or broadly cuneate, 
tapering to the long petiole-like base, 9—15 
em. long; inflorescence rather long-stalked, 
i i 12 em. 
A. Dietr.]]—Low hammocks, on tr Merian 
or ee logs, Cape Sable t ue Romano 
Regions, Fla. — (W. I.) — — The 
larges PERO most robust Pi ve pons 
Plants Bom se aromatic in drying. Oc- 
urs only in the marl r egions, and grows 
ieee only in low ne that are 
flooded part of each yea 
2. R. floridanum Small.  Epiphytie, the stems stout, the branches ofte 
matted, elongate, sometimes vine-like: le d blades ovate to su uborbiewlar, 
broadest above the middle or below it, 4-9 c m. long, abruptly or rather gra 
ally narrowed to the petiole-like pos infloresce ence with a short pen t Sc 
ps usually a single denti erect stout gees less than 1 dm. d the rachis 
mm. thick or less: berry cylindric-ovoid or cylindric, about 1 mm. long, the 
beak slightly shorter than the body, hooked. [Peperomia nagna roto 
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