Peperomia PIPERACE.E ' 7 



terminal and axillary, about as long as, sometimes longer than, 

 the leaves, somewhat slender, dense-flowered. Grlseh. op. cit. 167 ; 

 a DC. in Urh. Sijmh. Ant. iii. 252. 



On trunks of trees ; near Mabe^s River, 4000 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8338. 



Sfein succulent, rooting at nodes below, 1*5-3 dm. high, 3 mm. br. 

 Leaves 7-10 cm. 1., nearly 8 to nearly 4 cm. br. Spikes to 10 cm. 1., 2 mm. 

 br. (in flower) ; peduncles 1*5 cm. 1. ; bracts '6 mm. 1., -5 mm. br., 4 about 

 the same level on one side. Berries not seen. 



5. Berries sessile, verruculose, ellipsoidal to eylindrical- 

 ol)long ; apical appendage consisting of an oblique 

 " shield,"' produced posteriorly into a long beak, with the 

 stifjma sulicentral. Leaves alternate. 



A, Leaves more or less decurrent, not peltate. 



7. P. alpina A. JDietr. torn. cit. 18o (1831); leaves somewhat 

 leathery, long-stalked, roundish-elliptical, apex rounded or obtuse, 

 base shortly cuncate ; spikes somewhat lax-flowered (in fr.) with 

 acuminate pits of which the edges form a woody network : style 

 of ovaries oblong, linear-acuminate ; bracts * 75-1 mm. br., 

 round, 2-3 about the same level on one side ; berries with beak 

 of apical appendage curved but not hooked, stout, as long as the 

 berry. Miq. op. cit. 168 ; Griseh. op. cit. 167 ; DaliJst. op. cit. 58 ; 

 0. DC. in Urh. Symh. Ant. iii. 257. Piper alpinum Sic. Protlr. 1 5 

 (1788) t Fl. ln<l. Ocr. 62. Type in Herb. Stockholm. 



In peaty soil or on decaying trunks of trees ; Blue Mts., Swartz I Blue 

 Mts., McNah\ near Morse's Gap, 5000 ft. ; Greenwich, 4500 ft.; 2Iarris\ 

 Fl. Jam. 831G, 10,140 (in part). 



Stem creeping below, then ascending to erect, simple or with two 

 branches, 12-25 cm. 1. Leaves 2-3 pinnate principal nerves on each side, 

 the younger leaves somewhat puberulous, the lower sometimes opposite, 

 3-5*5 cm. 1., 2*25-4 cm. br. ; stalk 1-3 cm. 1. Spikes, two terminal or 

 solitary in axils, rhachis 3-6 cm. 1., 1*5-2 mm. br. ; peduncles 1*5-2*5 

 cm. 1. Berries 1-1*25 mm. 1., ellipsoidal. 



8. P. erassieaulis Fawc. d- Bendlc in Journ. Bot. 1. 177 (1012) ; 

 stem thick ; leaves leathery, obovate-elliptical, apex obtuse, 

 sometimes slightly emarginate, base cuneate and passing into 

 and decuri*ent on the petiole, median nerve prominent below 

 and forming a narrow wing or rib on the petiole ; spikes some- 

 what lax-flowered, in the fruiting stage with elliptical pits of 

 which the edijes form a woodv network ; stvle of ovaries 

 lanceolate-acuminate; bracts "5- "75 mm. br., elliptical or round, 

 3-4 about the same level on one side ; berries with beak of 

 apical appendage subulate, curved but not hooked, as long as the 

 berry. P. obtusifolia Griseh. op. cit. 166 (in part), non A. Dietr. 

 Type in Herl). Mus. Brit, and in Herb. Jam. 



In peat in shady woodland and on decaying trunks of trees; Macfad- 

 yen ! Blue Mts. McNab 1 John Crow Peak, J.P. 1431, Hart ! Morse's Gap, 



