Peperomia. | PIPERACEA (Wright). A491 
in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 442. P. caffra, E. Meyer in Drége, Zwei Pfl. 
Documente, 151. f sala 
BS ge Rec1on : East London Diy, ; on rockeries, First Creek, 200 ft., Galpin, 
8! 
Eastern Reaion: Transkei; near the north of the Kei River, Flanagan, 2588 ; 
Pondoland; St. Johns River, Drége! Natal: Umazinyati Falls, Wood, 1222! and 
without precise locality, Gueinzius. : 
Also in Madagascar, Socotra and Arabia ; a variety in German East Africa, ° 
3. P. retusa (A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. 155); stem creeping, ascending, 
about 4 in. high, simple or more or less forked, glabrous ; leaves 
alternate or the uppermost opposite, obovate, elliptic, or almost 
orbicular, about 6 lin, long but varying much on the same branch, 
obtuse or emarginate, glabrous on both surfaces, fleshy, 1- or 
3-nerved, with a marginal nerve all the way round ; petiole about 
3 lin. long, glabrous ; spikes terminal, filiform, about 9 lin, long ; 
peduncle 5 lin. long ; flowers scattered ; bracts subsessile, peltate ; 
ovary ovoid ; stigma minute, puberulous ; berry subglobose, black, 
slightly. sunk in the rhachis. Mig. Syst. Piper. 132; Drege, Zwei 
Pfl. Documente, 124; C. DO. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i, 446 (incl. var. 
alternifolia) ; Bolus & Wolley-Dod in Trans. 8. Afr. Phil. Soe, xiv. 
312. “Piper retusum, Linn. f. Suppl. 91 ; Thunb, Fl. Cap. ed. Schult, 
443: Vahl, Enum. i. 346; Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 165. 
Var. 8, ciliolata (C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 447) ; leaves ciliate at the apex, 
sometimes emarginate, 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div. ; Cape Town, Alexander Prior ! Table Mountain, 
Skeleton Gorge, 1500 ft., Galpin, 4435! Devils Mountain, among stones in a 
shady valley, 1200 ft., Bolus, 3307! and by the Waterfall, Wolley-Dod, 858! 
Kerstenbosch, Bergius. Knysna Diy, ; Karratera River, under 1000 ft., Drége! 
near the Keurbooms River, Burchell, 5171! Kraatjes Kraal, in the forest and 
by the rivulet, near Yzer Nek, Burchell, 5222! Var. B: Cape Diy. ; Devils 
ountain, Fischer. George Div. ; in the forest near George, Burchell, 6053 ! 
CrenrraL REGION: Somerset Div. ; on the Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3205! 
KALAHARI Reaion: Transvaal; Spitz Kop, Wilms, 1354! 
Eastern ReGion: Tembuland ; Bazeia, Baur! Natal ; without precise locality, 
Gerrard, 1518 ! 
4. P. Bachmannii (C. DC. in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 227); a small 
herb growing on old trees or stones ; branches glabrous, about 
2 in. long and } lin. in diam. ; leaves alternate, obovate, rounded 
at the base and apex, 6 lin. long, 4} lin. wide, glabrous above, 
puberulous beneath, ciliate on the margin, thinly membranous, 
pellucid, 3-nerved and with a slender marginal nerve continued to 
the apex; petiole 1} lin. long; spikes terminal, 9 lin. long ; 
peduncle 4 lin. long. . 
Eastern Recton: Pondoland, without precise locality, Rehmann, 419, 
5. P. nana (C. DC. in Journ. Bot. 1866, 135); a dwarf herb ; 
leaves alternate, orbicular or subreniform, obtuse at the apex, 
rounded or truncate at the base, glabrous on both surfaces, very 
