8 FLOEA OF JAMAICA Pcperomia 



4900-5000 ft.; Greenwich, 4500 ft.; Harrisl Fl. Jam. 8104, 8321, 10,140 

 (in part) ; i\Iorse's Gap, G. Nidiols ! Bermuda, Cuba. 



Stem rooting below, erect, simple or with two or three brancijes, to 

 7 dm. 1., to 8 mm. br. Leaves 4-8 pinnate principal nerves on each side, 

 one or two lower pairs springing from near base, apex sometimes slightly 

 puberulous, blade 4-12 cm. 1., 2-5 cm. br. ; stalk to 3 cm. 1. Spikes 

 terminal, geminate to paniculate, rhachis 7-16 cm. 1., 2*5-3 mm. br., 

 common peduncle 4-8 "5 cm. 1.; peduncles 2-4 cm.l. i?c7Tics 1-1'25 mm. 1., 

 ellipsoidal. 



9. P. amplexieaulis A. Dietr. torn. cit. 144 (1831) ; leaves 

 leathery, sessile, linear-oblanceolate to obovate, apex obtu.se, 

 tapering to a very narrow base attached to a projecting horse- 

 shoe-shaped leaf- trace ; spikes dense-flowered, in close whorls 

 (in fr.), with ovoid pits not completely touching ; style of ovaries 

 lanceolate-acuminate; bracts "5 mm. br., 6-7 about the same 

 level on one side, touching or overlapping ; berries with beak of 

 apical appendage straight, very short {}^ length of berry). 

 Miq. op. cit. 196 ; Griseh. oj). cit. 166 (in part); DaJdst. op. cit. 

 63, t. II. f. 7 ; C. DC. torn. cit. 258. Piper amplexicaule 

 Sw. Prodr. 16 (1788), FI. Ind. Occ. 17 & Ic. ined. t. 56. Type in 

 Herb. Stockholm. 



On rocks ; Swartz ! Masson ! Macfadyen ! Moneague, Prior ! Money 

 Corner, 800 ft., Thompsonl near Troy, 2200 ft., Harrisl Fl. Jam. 8067, 

 8689 ; hills near Bulstrode, Mrs. Britten, 2881 ! Bath, 800 ft., G. NicJiols ! 



Stein thick, rooting below, erect, branching from base, 10-20 cm. 1., to 

 5 mm. br. Leaves 3-5 pinnate nerves on each side, the two lower pairs 

 springing from near the base, 7-15 cm. 1., l'5-3"5 cm. br. Spikes terminal 

 paniculate and sometimes one or two in upper axils; rhachis 5-18 cm. 1., 

 2 mm. br. ; common peduncle including branches about 3 cm. 1. ; i)eduncle, 

 terminal 2-2*5 cm. 1., axillary to 3 cm. 1. Berries 1 mm. 1., ellipsoidal, 

 surface obscurely reticulate, beak '2- '4 mm. 1. 



10. P. elusiifolia Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2943 (1829); leaves 

 leathery, sessile or passing into and decurrent on the petiole, 

 oblanceolate, obovate or oblong-obovate, apex rounded to obtuse, 

 sometimes slightly emarginate, tapering to a very narrow base 

 attached to a projecting horseshoe-shaped leaf-trace ; spikes 

 dense-flowered in close whorls, (in fr.) with ovoid pits not 

 completely touching ; style of ovaries acute ; bracts * 5- 6 mm. br., 

 4-5 on same level on one side ; berries with beak of apical 

 appendage curved, -^-^ length of berry. DaJdst. op. cit. 62 ; 

 C. DC. torn. cit. 257. P. cuneifolia A. Dietr. torn. cit. 146 (1831) ; 

 Miq. op. cit. 194 ; Daldst. op. cit. 63, t. II. 6 ; C. DC. torn. cit. 258. 

 P. obtusifolia Griseh. op. cit. 166 (in part). P. amplexieaulis 

 var. Swartziana Griseh. op. cit. 166. Piper clusiifolium Jacq. 

 Collect. Hi. 209 (1789) & Ic. PL Par. ii. t. 212; Haio. Succ. 5. 

 P. cuneifolium Jacq. Collect, iv. 127 (1790) & Ic. PI. Par. ii. 

 i. 214. 



In peaty soil, on trees, and in crevices of rocks; Broughtonl Piirdiel 

 Widlschlaegel ; Banana Kiver, 1700 ft., Eggers ; Bryans Hill, 3000-3500 ft. ; 



