490 PIPERACE® (Wright). | Peperomit. 
1. P. reflexa (A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 180); stems creeping, tufted, 
3-6 in. long, once or twice dichotomously forked, tetragonal, deeply 
suleate when dried ; leaves usually 4 in a whorl, obovate, obtuse, 
3-4 lin. long, bright green, glabrous above, pilose beneath, rigidly 
coriaceous, obscurely — triplinerved, subsessile ; .spikes_ terminal, 
solitary, 6-18 in. long, distinctly peduncled, rhachis pilose, deeply 
pitted ; bracts round, subsessile ; ovary ovoid, stigma terminal, 
penicillate ; fruit oblong, narrowed to a point, deeply immersed in 
the pits of the rhachis, Mig. Syst. Piper. 169 ; and in Hook. Lond. 
Journ. Bot. iv. (1845), 426; Wight, Te. t. 1923, fig. 1; Drege, Zwei 
Pfl. Documente, 124, 136, 141, 146, and in Linnea, xx. 215 ; Baker, 
Fl. Maurit. 298; C. DC. in DO. Prodr, xvi. i. 451; Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. v. 99; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 159; Dawe in Rep. Bot. 
Uganda Protect. 1906, 55; Baker & C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
Afr. vi. i, 155. P. Reknanni, C. DC. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 22%. 
Piper reflecum, Linn, f. Suppl. 91; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult, 443. 
Micropiper pusillum, Mig. Comm. Phyt. 62, t. 5, fig. a 
Var. B, capense (C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i, 451) ; leaves petioled, glabrous 
on both surfaces, subpellucid, 3-nerved ; peduncle glabrous, twice as long as the 
leaves. Dahlstedt in Kgl. Sv. Vet. Akad, Handl. xxxiii. ii. 179, t. 8, fig. 28. 
P. reflexa, forma capensis, Mig. Syst. Piper. 169. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, var. B Sparrmann, Wahlberg, Mund & Maire. 
Coast Recion: Knysna Div.; between Keurbooms River and Bitou 
River, Burchell, 52751 Karratera River, under 1000 ft., Drege! and 
without precise locality, Rehkmann, 489. Uitenhage Div.; Zuurberg Range, 
2000-8000 ft., Drége; Port Elizabeth Div. ; around Krakkakamma, Burchell, 
4557! Zeyher. Albany Div.; wooded kloof west of Grahamstown, Burchell, 
3596! Bathurst Div. ; Glenfilling, in woods and thickets, under 1000 ft., Drége. 
Stutterheim Div. ; near Fort Cunynghame, Galpin, 2465! Queenstown Div. ; 
Rockwood, Bongolo, Galpin, 2508! Var. 8: Uitenhage Diy. ; Van Standens Berg, 
Zeyher, 3873. 
CentTrat Reaton : Somerset Div. ; on Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3209 ! : 
- Kananarrt Rearon: Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rekmann, 5969, Reitfontein, Miss 
Leendertz, 873! 
Eastern Reaion: Transkei; between Gekau (Geua) and Bashee Rivers, 1000- 
2000 ft., Drége. Tembuland: Bazeia, Bawr, 18! Natal: Van Reenen, Schlechter, 
6995! and without precise locality, Cooper, 1276! Gerrard, 1667! Zululand ; 
Eshowe, Mrs. K. Saunders, 3! Var. B: Natal ; without precise locality, Gueinzius. 
Throughout the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 
2. P. arabica (Decsne ex Mig. Syst. Piper. 121); suffruticose, 
6-12 in. high ; stem erect from a decumbent base, terete, densely 
pubescent ; leaves opposite, elliptic or oblong-rhomboid, obtuse or 
acute, up to 1} in. long and 1 in. wide, the lower smaller, more or 
less cuneate at the base, succulent when fresh, membranous when 
dry, pubescent on both surfaces; obscurely pellucid-punctate, 
5-nerved ; petiole 2-6 lin. long, channelled above, densely pubes- 
cent ; spikes axillary and terminal, 2} in. long, filiform when dry ; 
peduncle 6 lin. long, pubescent ; flowers distant, in pseudo-whorls ; 
bracts peltate, very shortly stalked ; filaments short ; anthers 
globose, pallid ; ovary ovoid, glabrous ; berry globose, black ; seed 
globose, black, shining, areolate, Miq. Ill. Piper, 18, t. 125. 0. DC. 
