Dec. iSg6. Flora of Yucatan — Millspaugii. 293 



Spiranthes polyantha Reichb. f. 



Rare, i to 2 feet high, flowers dull red. In crevices of rocks 

 at Xcholac. Feb. (442). 



piperace.f:. 



Peperomia glutinosa sp. nov. (Plate XII). 



Siem thick, succulent, creeping (3 feet), glabrous; branches 

 erect, dichotomously forked or simple, internodes 2 to 4 inches 

 long. Leaves opposite, rarely a whorl of 3, fleshy, smooth both 

 sides, ovate, entire, tapering at both ends, blunt, 3-veined, not 

 dotted; petiole one-third to one-half the length of the blade. 

 Rachis terminal, slender, 3 to 6 inches long, glabrous, shallow- 

 foveolate. Ovary pyriform, rostellate, subtended by a flat disci- 

 form ovoid scale, and covered on the basal half with a black 

 sticky exhudation. Stigma apical, capitate. Leaves i to 2 

 inches long. 



On the borders of cenotes near Izamal, March (435). Also 

 collected by Mr. Pringle on rocks at Mucos, San Luis Potosi, 

 1 89 1 (jo66.) 



Piper medium J acq. Yaxtehc-che. 



Shrub 15 feet high; common at Buena \'ista Xbac. Aug. 



(7«3). 



MORACE.^. 



Ficus Jaliscana Watson. Pomoloche. 



Small tree 15 feet high, abundant in the brush and forest 

 lands about Izamal, Jan. to June (365). 



Ficus longipes ^liq. Alamo. Copo. 



Tree 60 feet high, abundant in forests everywhere. Izamal, 

 May (599). 



Morus celtidifolia H. B. K. Mora. 



A large tree 90 feet high, abundant in the forests about Iza- 

 mal, June (726). 



URTICACE^. 



.\i.icASTRUM Brownei Kuntze. Ramon. Ox. 



Brosimum Alicastrum Sw. Tree 100 feet high, abundant 

 everywhere in Yucatan : Izamal, June to July (748). Near Me- 

 rida ( Valdez, g^). 



Dorstenia Contrajerva Houstoniana Bureau. Xkambahan. 

 Herb 10 inches high, abundant in the forests about Izamal, 

 May (698). 



Parietaria Pennsylvanica Floridana (Nutt.), Wedd. 



Herb 18 inches high, common in moist, shady places about Iza- 

 mal, Sept. to Nov. (844). 



