514 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
1. Microdesmis puberula, Hook. fil. (Tas. XXVI.) ; staminibus 
5, antheris muticis—Fernando Po, Vogel. 
Frutex, ramis virgatis gracilibus pubescentibus. Folia alterna, 
brevi-petiolata, lanceolata, cuspidata, 3-4-pollicaria, obsolete 
serrulata, penninervia, reticulato-venosa, rigide membranacea, 
pellucido-punctata, subtus ad venas puberula. Stipule mi- 
nutz, persistentes. Flores minuti, in fasciculos axillares 
aggregati; masculi in fasciculo plures, pedicello vix lineam 
longo ; foeminei pauciores, pedicello adhuc breviore. 
Puare XXVI. Fig. 1. bud of the male flower; f. 2. male 
flower ; f. 3. petal; f. 4. stamens, with the rudiments of the 
pistil ; f. 5. fruit; f. 6. the same, vertical section ; f ro the 
same, transverse section; f. 8. seed; f. 9. the same, vertical 
section :—all magnified. 
XCIII. PIPERACEÆ. 
l. Peperomia Vogelii, Miq. Lond. Journ. Bot. 4. p. 413:—0n 
the Quorra, Vogel; St. Thomas, Don. ; 
Don's specimens are much more slender than Vogel’s, with 
longer and slenderer spikes, one of them is branched, and 
eleven inches high. Some of the leaves come very near mM 
form to those of the common P. pellucida, from which this 
species is scarcely distinct. 
1. Pothomorphe subpeltata, Miq. Pip. p. 213. et Lond. Journ. 
Bot. 4. p. 431.—Sierra Leone, Don; Fernando Po, Vogel 
Tropical Asia and. Africa. 
1. Cubeba Clusii, Miq. Pip. p. 304. et Lond. Journ. Bot. 4. P 
434.— Sierra Leone, very common on trees, Don: Fernando 
Po, Vogel. 
Schumacher and Thonning describe a Piper Guineens?, 
known in the country under the name of Dooje and Ashantee 
Pepper, which appears to agree with the above in the fruit, but 
to differ in the long petioles, and in the veins of the leaves 
pubescent underneath. Thonning had not seen it himself, but 
loose fragments were brought to him by the natives, and possib 
ne leaves may not have been from the same plant as ot 
uit. 
