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According to Powell, this plant is named “O le Afia" by the Samoans, and much esteemed by them 
for perfuming oil. 
Expnanation Or Pirate LXXIV., representing Ascarina lanceolata, Hook. f.—Fig. 1, a branch, with 
male flowers; 2, inale flower; 3, stamen ; 4, a branch of the female plaut; 5, young fruit; 6, the same, cut 
longitudinally. Figs. 2, 3, 5, and 6, magnified, and copied from a sketch made by my friend Count Herm, 
of Solms- Laubach. 
Orpo LXXXVIII. PIPERACEZ:. 
I. Peperomia, Ruiz et Pavon, Prodr. Flor. Peruv. p. 8. Flores ¢, dense v. remote amentacei. 
Bracteæ peltatæ, breviter v. longiuscule pedicellatæ, pelta carnosa v. foliacea, persistentes v. deciduæ. 
Stamina 2, lateralia, filamentis teretibus v. subulatis, antheris 2-locularibus, loculis appositis effcetis, 
sursum confluentibus, hine subunilocularibus. Ovarium sessile, ovoideum v. oblongum, aliquando 
foveole rhachos subimmersum, rectum v. obliquum. Stigma sessile, deciduum, penicillatum, peni- 
cillis longioribus v. exilissimis, aut in apice ovarii recti aut in antico pariete ovarii oblique acuminati 
et tune plerumque minutissimum. Bacca sessilis, fere exsucca. Pericarpium tenue. Semen con- 
forme, testa membranacea v. coriacea, albumine candido farinoso. Embryo minutissimus.—H erbe 
carnose, succulent, inarticulate, aliquando minutissime, v. suffruticose, erectee v. subrepentes 
nasique radicantes, ramos, ramis foliisque alternis, oppositis v. verticillatis, his plerumque petio- 
latis, succulentis v. raro membranaceis, glabris pubescentibus v. tomentosis, costulatis v. cc-nervi- 
venosis exstipulatis, viridibus v. coloratis, non raro pellucido-glandulosis cauleque aliquando odo- 
ratis; amentis pedunculatis axillaribus v. ex axillis foliorum supremorum terminalibus v. opposi- 
tifoliis, longis v. brevibus, rectis v. curvatis, filiformibus v. carnoso-incrassatis, rhachi levi v. foveo- 
lata; floribus remotis v. densissime confertis, illis bracteis plerumque foliaceis deciduis, his carnosis 
persistentibus instructis; baccis insipidis v. acribus.—Micropiper et Peperomia, Miq. Comm. Phy- 
togr. pp. 37 et 39. Tildenia, ejusd. in Diar. Inst. Reg. Nederl. 1842.  Dugagelia, Gaudich.? Mi- 
quel, Syst. Pip. p. 63. 
Peperomia is strongly represented in Polynesia. In New Ireland we have P. Seemanniana, Casim. 
DC. in Seem. Journ. vol. iv. p. 164; in New Caledonia, P. Caledonica, Casim. DC. l.c. p. 135; in the 
Kermandee group and New Zealand, P. Urvilleana, A. Rich.; in Norfolk Island, P. Endlicheri, Miq. 
(Piper simplex, Endl), and P. Baueriana, Miq. (Piper ascendens, Endl.); in the Society Islands, P. pal- 
lida, Miq. (Piper pallidum, Forst.), P. reflexa, A. Dietr. (P. tetraphylla, Hook, et Arn. ; Piper tetraphyllum, 
Forst.), a species also known from the Hawaiian Islands (Barclay! Nuttall! Macrae!) and Norfolk Island 
(Endlicher's Piper emulum), and P. rhomboidea, Hook. et Arn. (Piper polymorphum, Soland. Prim. Fl. Ins. 
Pacif. (ined.) p. 206, et in Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants (ined.), t. 8; Piper acuminatum, Forst. Prodr. 
n. 23, non alior. Nomina vernacula Tahitensia, teste Soland., * Epaimato " et * Pilhi-papa") ; and in the 
Hawaiian or Sandwich group we have P. membranacea, Hook. et Arn. ; P. Gaudichaudu, iq. (P. membra- 
nacea, var. ?); P. Sandwichensis, Miq.; P. insularum, Miq.; P. latifolia, Miq.; P. hypoleuca, Miq.; P. pa- 
chyphylla, Miq. (P. verticillata, Hook. et Arn.); P. Macraéana, Cas. DC. in Seem. Journ. vol. iv. p. 145; 
P. leptostachya, Miq.; and P. Fernandeziana, Miq. i 
l. P. pallida, A. Dietr. Spec. vol. i. p. 153; Miq. Syst. Pip. p. 103; foliis alternis v. oppositis 
oblongo-ellipticis v. obovatis acuminatis glabris 3—5-plinerviis; amentis axillaribus, solitariis filifor- 
` mibus, baccis remotis distinctis.— Piper pallidum, Forst. Prodr. n. 24.—Island of Taviuni, on rocks 
(Seemann; n. 565). Also collected in Tahiti (Forster! Banks and.Solander! Nelson I). 
II. Piper, Linn. Gen. n. 43. Flores d v. polygami. Amenta oppositifolia, axillaria v. termi- 
nalia. Bractez peltatz, inflexo-cucullate v. subconchzeformes. Stamina 2—2o; antherz 1-2-locu- 
