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below. Seed solitary, globose; albumen coidIous, white and farinaceous. Fl. 

 Maj-June. 



Peperomia portulacoides Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, I. p. 189, tab. 

 21 ; Id. Illustr. Fl. Jap. I. n. 2, p. 2, tab. 10, 11, non A. Dietr. 



Hah. LoocHOO (Coll.! Imp. Mus. 1876, herb. T. MaUno; H. Kurohoal 

 herb. T. Ilaldno), Nakizin in Isl. Okinawa {S. Tashiro ! herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, March 1887) ; Prov. Tosa in Isl. Shikoku : Isl. Heshima 

 {K. Nagamimal 1886; T. Blcikinol June 17, 1887; Y. Yoshinagal herb. 

 T. 3'Ialdno) ; Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, But. Gard. Koishikawa, cult, from 

 Aniami-Oshima, coll. T. Uchiyama {T. Mahino ! Nov. 1901). 



This growls on shady littoral rocks of southern Japan, extending 

 between Loochoo Islands southwards, and Isl. Heshima of prov. Tosa in 

 Shikoku northwards. The Heshima plant was at first discovered by 

 myself. The leaves and stem are quite green without any other colour. 

 It comes near to Peperomia dindygiilensis Miq. Syst. Piper, p. 122 ; but the 

 leaves to a node nre more numerous than in the latter. The Loochoo plant 

 which Forbes and Hemsley (in Lourn. Linn. Soc. XXVI. p. 366) referred 

 to P. dindygidensis Miq., probably belongs to my species. 



Peperomia (Micropiper) boninsimensis Makino sp. nov. 



Stem tufted, succulent, slender, decHning at base and then ascending, 

 7-50 cm. long, simple or laxly ramose, terete, smooth, glabrous, lightgreen 

 and often minutely purpureo-punctate, attaining 5 mm. across in dried 

 specimen ; internodes |-4i cm. long. Leaves opposite, or 3-nate, but 

 alternate in the young one, patent, petiuled, ovate to ovato-oblong, or 

 obovato-oblong, obtuse and often minutely subemarginate, obtuse or acute 

 at base, succulent, but membranaceous and very minutely dark-brown punctate 

 under lens when dried, glabrous excepting the pubescent and ciliated upper 

 margin, green and often purpureo-maculate above, paler beneath, subtilely 

 quinque-nerved, both outermost nerves much weak, 1-3 cm. long, |-l|cm. 

 wide ; petiole semiterete, glabrous, 3-13 mm. long. Spike terminal and 

 axillary at the top of stem, erect or ascending, simple, longer than leaves, 

 attaining about 7cm. in length, glabrous, shortly pedunculate; rachis slen- 

 derly terete, a little foveolate in the seated place of flowers, about 2 ram. 

 across, green, very minutely dark-punctate under lens when dried. Flower 

 loosely disposed, minute, numerous, sessile. Bract-scale minute, orbicular or 

 obovate-orbicular, peltate, shortly pedicellate, glabrous, persistent, light green, 



