Piper.| PIPERACEA: (Wright). 489 
Jahrb. xix, 224; Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 159. P. Volkensii, C. DC. 
in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 225. Coccobryon capense, Mig. Syst. Piper. 343, 
and in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xxi. Suppl. 59, t. 61. Cubeba 
capensis, Mig. Syst. Piper. 303. Peperomia capensis, Loudon, Hort. 
Brit. ed. i. 13; Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, ii. 301. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Forster! Mund! 
Coast Rraion: Swellendam Div. ; near Swellendam, Zeyher, 3871! Knysna 
Div. ; Kynsna, in the forest by the quarry, Burchell, 5397! Karratera River, 
under 1000 ft., Drége! Bosch River, in wood, under 500 ft., Drége! 
Katanart Reaion: Transvaal; Barberton, Kirk, 91! Thorneroft, 2965! 
a A ale forest, 3300 ft., Galpin, 907! Houtbosch (Woodbush) Rehmann, 
5970 ! 
Eastern ReGron: Pondoland; Egossa, near St. Andrews, 1000 ft., Tyson, 
3137 ! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1061! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 1456. 
Also in Tropical Africa, 
2. P. borbonense (C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 339) ; a parasite 
on trees; branches woody, glabrous; leaves oblong-ovate, obtusely 
acuminate, unequally cordate or cuneate at the base, 2} in. long, 
11 in. wide, penninerved, glabrous; petiole 4 lin. long, slightly 
hairy beneath ; peduncle longer than the petiole, glabrous ; bracts 
subrotundate, pubescent beneath and on the margin ; stamens 3 ; 
exserted; female spike dense - flowered; rhachis slightly hairy ; 
stigmas 3 ; berry ovoid, shorter than its pedicel. Engl. Jahrb, xix. 
224, Cubeba costulata, Mig. Syst. Piper. 299. C. borbonense, Mig. 
le. 301, 
Sovrn Arnica: without locality, Verreaux, Gueinzius, 
Also in the Mascarene Islands, 
II, PEPEROMIA, Ruiz & Pay. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, spicate. Perianth none, Stamens 2; 
filaments short ; anthers transversely oblong or subglobose ; cells 2 ; 
usually confluent. Ovary sessile or subsessile, obtuse or acute ; 
ovule solitary, erect ; stigma undivided, often penicillate. Fruit 
minute ; pericarp thin. Seed similar in shape to the fruit; testa 
membranous or coriaceous ; endosperm farinaceous, 
Herbs, annual or perennial, sometimes climbing ; leaves exstipulate, alternate, 
opposite or verticillate, entire, penniveined or triplinerved ; spikes terminal or 
leaf-opposed, solitary or several together ; bracts sessile, usually peltate. 
Distrip. Species about 400, spread through the warmer regions of both 
hemispheres, concentrated in America. 
Leaves whorled, glabrous above, pilose beneath ; stem 
glabrous .,. sul aes Se bee «> G) reflexa. 
Leaves opposite, pubescent on both surfaces; stem 
densely pubescent =... vee tee tee .». (2) arabica, 
Leaves alternate or the upper opposite : 
Spikes terminal : 
Leaves glabrous on both surfaces... «., +s» (8) retusa. 
Leaves glabrous aboye, puberulous beneath, ciliate (4) Bachmannii. 
Spikes leaf-opposed ; leaves glabrous on both surfaces (5) nana. 
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