Peperomia ' PIPERACE.E 5 



t. 4. Acroccarpidium hispidulum 3Iiq. Syst. Pip. 5-i (1843). 

 (Fig. 1, D.) 



In damp peatv soil in shady woods; Blue ]Mts., Sicartzl Newhaven 

 Gap, 5600 ft. ; Blue Mt. Peak, 7400 ft. ; Morse'.s Gap, 4800-5000 ft. ; 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam, G728, 754S, 7970, 8320. Costa Kica, Colombia, Venezuela, 

 Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay. 



Stems erect, sometimes decumbent and rooting below, hispidulous at 

 the nodes, 4-8 cm. 1. Leaves thinly membranous, 4-12 mm. 1. and br. ; 

 stalk 2-8 mm. 1. S2}ikcs 7-10 mm. 1. ; peduncles 3-5 mm. 1. Berries 

 ellipsoidal, "7- '8 mm. 1. ; mucro -15- -2 mm. 1. ; stalk -5 mm. 1. 



2. Berries sessile, subglobose, with several longitudinal 

 verruculuse ribs, mueronate, with stigma terminal. Leaves 

 alternate. 



2. P. pellueida Kunth in H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. d: Sj). i. 64 

 (1816); glabrous; leaves subcordate-deltoid ; spikes filiform, 

 not tleshy, lax-flowered.^ -Haic. Slice. 6 ; 3Iiq. op. cit. 79 ; Griseh. 

 loc. cit.; G. DC. torn. cit. 244 & iv. 189; UaJilst. oij. cit. 16, t. I. 

 /.I. P. concinna A. Dietr. torn. cit. 164 (1831). Saururus minor 

 procumbens &c. PJum. Descr. PI. Amer. 54, t. 72 & Ic. inecl. 

 iv. t. 239. Piper pellucidum L. Sp. PI. 30 (1753). P. concinnum 

 EaiD. Slice. Bev. 198 (1821). (Fig. 1, A-C.) 



In damp shady soil ; Sivartz in Herb. Stockh. ! J. P. 713, 'Morris ! Hope, 

 700 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6251, 8352 ; Bath, G. Nichols ! Port Antonio, 

 Millspaugh. Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Bartholomew, Guade- 

 loupe, Dominica, ]Martinique, St. Vincent, Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, 

 Trinidad, trop. America to Peru, W. Africa. 



Stems 1-3 dm. high, erect, branching, with rather long internodes. 

 Leaves thinly membranous, pellucid, 1 5-2 5 cm. 1. and br. ; stalk 5-1 cm. 1. 

 Spikes 2-5 cm. 1.; bracts "4 mm. br. ; peduncles usually about '5 cm. 1. 

 Berries '9-1 mm. 1. 



3. Berries stalked^ obovate to oblong, smooth, at the apex 

 with a conical-curved or discoid appendage, with the 

 stigma just below" the apex. Leaves alternate. 



3. P. tenella A. Dictr. torn. cit. 153 (1831); leaves ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, glabrous but sometimes ciliate near apex ; 

 spikes filiform, slightly swollen, lax-flowered ; berries stalked, 

 stalk about as long as berry. Griseh. loe. cit. ; C. DC. in Urh. 

 Sijmh. Ant. Hi. 224 ; Dahlst. op. cit. '2\,t. IV. f. 5. Piper tenellum 

 Sio. Prodr. 16 (1788), Fl. Ind. Dec. 65 & le. ined. f. 31. Acro- 

 carpidium tenellum Miq. op. cit. 53 (1843). (Fig. 1, E.) 



Amongst mosses on trees; Blue INIts,, Swartzl Wiles\ Bcrtero ; 

 Wilson ; March ! Catherine's Peak, Eggcrs ; Cinchona, 5000 ft., Watt ! 

 road to John Crow Peak, 5400 ft. ; Morse's Gap, 5000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 

 8323, 8335 ; John Crow Peak, G. Nichols ! Cuba, Guadeloupe, Venezuela, 

 Brazil. 



Stejn creeping and rooting at nodes ; flowering branches erect or ascend- 

 ing, below leafless, 3-12 cm. high. Leaves pellucid-dotted, 8-17 mm. 1., 

 4-10 mm. br. ; stalk 1-1*5 mm. 1. Spikes 2-4 cm. 1., 5--9 mm. br. ; 



