422 ANIMADVERSIONES IN PIPERACEAS. 
apice attenuato obtusiuscula, pilis crebrioribus. Amenta 
axillaria et terminalia foliis abortientibus conferta, 3-5 cent. 
longa, teretia obtusiuscula, inferne quidquam contracta, pe- 
dunculis sparse pilosis 1-1 cent. longis sustenta. Bracteæ 
breviter pedicellate peltate orbiculares membranacee glabre. 
Stamina 2. Ovarium ellipticum apice stigmatiferum. 
23. P. insularum; succulenta adscendens radicans ramosa, 
ramulis petiolis foliis subtus in nervis pedunculisque sparse 
puberulis sensim glabratis, foliis oppositis petiolatis rhom- 
beo-ellipticis vel -sublanceolatis, basi cuneatis acutis vel 
obtusis apice attenuato vel subacuminato obtusiusculis, 
3- vel 5-nerviis, nervo medio percurrente crassiusculo, 
lateralibus tenuibus, amentis axillaribus et terminalibus, 
plerumque aggregatis 1-5 pedunculo longioribus teretibus 
obtusis subdissitifloris, ovario apice stigmatifero. : 
Crescit in ins. Sandwich, Oahu (J. Diell, n. 53.) Ex afi- 
nitate P. Sandvicensis et P. latifolie. 
Caulis $-1 pedem longus, basi radicans decumbens, cæterum 
erectus, basi glaber, superne pilosulus, internodiis brevibus 
(3- plerumque 1 cent), nodis tumidis. Petioli 2-10 mm. 
longi, antice canaliculati, cito glabrati ; folia carnosa, nascentia. 
Supra in nervis pilosa, adulta glaberrima, 14-2 vel 34 cent. 
longa, 1-1} lata, supra nervis 3 impressis, subtus 3-5 pertensa, 
pallida, inque nervis et extra eos sparse pilosula et glandulis 
fere resinosis inspersa. Pedunculi 4-14 cent. longi; amenta 
2-5 cent., superne leviter inerassata glabra, bracteis pedicel- 
lato-peltatis orbicularibus. 
24. Peperomie species nova? P. portulacoidi affinis, folia 
autem alterna videntur, statura P. Arabicam referens, sed 
folia obovata vel lanceolata, amenta solitaria vel gemina 
axillaria dissitiflora ; ob sp. mancum haud extricanda. 
In Madagascaria, (Dr. Lyall, n. 338.) 
25. Peperomiæ species, longe repens, caule tenui angulato 
lævi nitente lignescente, foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis 
orbicularibus vel basi leviter excisis subtus convexis, ju- 
nioribus utrinque pubescenti-hirtellis, adultis glaberrimis 
carnosis enerviis, 
