Tas. 6619. 
PEPEROMIA Resep=rLora. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Piprracex.—Tribe PrPerER. 
Genus Perrromia, Ruiz et Pav.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 132.) 
PEveromia resedeflora ; glaberrima, caule erecto ramoso, foliis orbiculato-cordatis 
subacutis 7—9-nerviis radicalibus rosulatis longe petiolatis caulinis oppositis v. 
8-natim verticillatis, amentis clavellatis in racemos terminales erectos albos 
longe pedunculatos dispositis, bracteis liberis orbicularibus peltatis, antheris 
brevibus filamento brevi, ovario emerso obovoideo, stigmate sessili terminali. 
P. resedzeflora, André, L’Illust. Hortic. vol. i. t. 26. 
This singular plant, introduced in 1865 by Mr. Braam 
into Mr. Linden’s establishment at Brussels, was so easily 
propagated and so attractive that, according to M. André, 
who first described it in 1870, it in two years became so 
general a favourite as to be found in all stoves; thus 
justifying his expression regarding it, borrowed from our 
horticulturists, that it is ‘a plant for the million.” Though 
so well known itself, there is some obscurity about the 
name it should bear. André rightly indicates its general 
affinity to P. secunda, P. Cotyledon, and P. wmbellata, and 
adds that there is but one plant in the Paris Herbarium 
that is very close to it, namely, one found by Spruce in the 
Andes of Equador in 1857, which bears on the ticket, 
** Pep. secunde affinis.”” Now this plant of Spruce is also 
in the Kew Herbarium; it is the number 5552 of his 
distributed specimens, and though having orbicular-cordate 
leaves, is referred by Casimir De Candolle (Prodr. vol. xvi. 
part i. p. 898) from specimens in the Geneva Herbarium to 
P. Fraseri, a species described as having cordate-lanceolate 
leaves. It differs from P. resedeflora in its larger size, 
suffruticose stem below, abruptly acuminate leaves, and 
much larger, longer, more crowded catkins. 
Whether P. resedeflora differs from P. Cotyledon, Benth. 
(Cas. DC. 1. c. 401), is more doubtful; in habit the two 
entirely agree, for P. Cotyledon, though described in the 
Prodromus as stemless, has an erect simple stem (as 
Bentham indeed states}, the inflorescence and flowers are 
APRIL lst, 1882, 
