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PEPEROMIA CLUSIAFOLIA. CLUSIA-LEAVED 
PEPEROMIA. 
KEE ERE EEE REE EER 
Class and Order. 
Dianpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord. — Pivrracez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Spadix cylindraceus, floribus undique tectus. Stamina 
duo. - Stigma indivisum. Bacca monosperma.  Caulis 
herbaceus. Humb. et Kunth. - 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Peperomia * clusiefolia ; foliis obovatis inferne attenuatis 
subauriculatis crassis, rubro-marginatis, margine recur- 
vato brevi-petiolatis subvenosis, caule radicante ru- 
$0so, spicis terminalibus solitariis vel binis cylindra- 
Ceis. : 
Piper clusiefolium. Jacq. Collect. v. 3. p. 209. Ic. Rar. 
v. 2. p. 2. t. 213. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. p. 159. 
Piper marginatum. Pl. Suce. Hort. Dyck. p. 24. (non 
Jacq.) Haw. Succ. Pl. Suppl. p. 3. ~~ 
Piper magnoliefolium. Haw. Syn. p. 6. (non Jacq.) 
a 
Descr. Stems much branched, thicker than a swan’s 
quill, red, and full of little transverse wrinkles, glabrous, as 
1S every part of the plant, decumbent at the base, and every 
where, immediately at the base of the leaf-stalks, disposed 
to throw out roots. Leaves four to six inches long, thick, 
tween coriaceous and fleshy, shortly petiolated, obovate, 
tapering downwards from near the middle, and somewhat 
auriculated at the very base, dark green above, peice 
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* Derived, as well as Pirer, from wireg, the Greek word for Pepper. 
