Piper riPERACE.E 21 



G. DC. in Urh. Sijnih. Ant. Hi. 1G7. P, medium Jacq. Collect, 

 i. 141 (1786) .1^ Ic. Bar. i. 2, t. S ; C. DC. torn. cit. 165 A: oj). cit. 

 ii\ 184. P. Berteroaniim C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 249 

 (1869). P. unguiculatum C. DC. torn. cit. 168 non Buiz & 

 Pav. P. Rinhardianum C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. jjt. I, 249 ik 

 in Urh. Synd). Ant. Hi. 169. Piper longum arboreum ifec. Sloane 

 Cat. 44 ct Hist. i. 134, /. 87, /'. 1. Piper frutescens diftusmn &c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 121 ; Enckea Amalago Griseh. FI. Br. W. Lid. 

 169 (1859) (in part). Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



"Cope's Plantation " Sloane Herb. ii. 79, 80 ! Broiune in Herb. Linn. 1 

 Phikenet in Herb. Sloane xc. 105, ci. 109! WrigJitl Brougliton\ moun- 

 tains, Sicartz [ Calcyl Bcrtcro ; Macfadyenl Distinl Westmoreland Mts. 

 and near Holland Bav, Purdie ! Wilson ; Prior ! March ; Newcastle, J. P. 

 1432, 1437, Hartl J.P. 2111, Morris I Toms River, Thompsonl Hope 

 Tavern, 600 ft. ; Campbell ! Robertsfield ; Yallahs Valley, Blue :\rts., 2500 

 ft. ; Green River, 3500 ft. ; Hope Mines, 750 ft. ; road to Guava Ridge, 

 1500 ft. ; Stanmore Hill, 2200 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 0505, 6590, 8049, 

 8342, 8353, 8354, 9972 ; Millspaiigh. W. Indies, tropical America to Pern, 

 Paraguay, Argentina. 



Shrub 6-10 ft., or small tree 20 ft. ; branches glabrate or hirtellous. 

 Leaves variable in form aud indumentum, ovate-elliptical, elliptical, 

 oblong-ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, rounded or acute at base, glabrous 

 on upper surface, glabrous, or puberulous on nerves underneath, with very 

 numerous pellucid dots, 5-14 cm. 1., 2-7 cm. br. ; stalks puberulous, 

 hirtellous, or glabrate, '5-1 cm. 1. Spikes dense-flowered and shorter than 

 the leaf, afterwards lax and as long or longer than the leaf ; peduncle 

 glabrous, puberulous or hirtellous, as long as, or twice as long as the 

 petiole. 



De Candolle separates P. medium Jacq. from P. Amalago L. by the 

 presence of hairs on the branches, leaves, and bracts of the former, but we 

 cannot find that this character is constant. The forms named P. medium 

 have generally a broader leaf and are more or less puberulous. 



We have also included Jamaican specimens distributed as P. unguicu- 

 latum Ruiz & Pav. They do not correspond with the specimen from 

 Ruiz & Pavon in Herb. Mus. Brit., in which the berries are fleshy and 

 much crowded. 



Var. variifolia ; leaves unequally 3-lobed, lateral lobes very 

 short, median long linear-acuminate. P. panduratum C. DC. in 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 250 (1869). P. subpanduriforme C. DC. 

 in Urh. Sijmh. Ajit. Hi. 170 (1902). Enckea Amalago var. 

 variifolia Griseh. loc. cit. (1859). 



Fairfield, Wullschlaegcl. 



2. P. Wullschlaeg-elii C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 249 

 (1869) : leaves subovate-lanceolate, at base acute ; spikes nearly 

 twice as long as the leaf. C. DC. in Urh. Sjjmh. Ant. Hi. 168. 



St. Thomas-in-East, Wilson ; between Fairfield aud Nazareth, Wull- 

 schlacgel. 



SJirub. Branches glabrous. Leaves with minute pellucid dots, apex 

 attenuate-acuminate, glabrous on both sides ; limb cm. 1., 2 cm. br. ; 

 stalk glabrous, 4 mm. 1. Peduncle glabrous, a little longer than the leaf- 

 stalk. 



