.") 1 II. DAHLSTEDT. STUDIEN ÜBE« SÜD- UND OENTRALAMEBIKANISCHE PEPEROMIEN. 



9. P. umbellata Miq. 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. bot, v. 4, p. 427; ('. DC. Prodr. 16: 1, p. 401. 

 Distributio geographica: Peruvia (Mattews n:o 3230 in Hb. Kew. sec. ('. DC). 



10. P. chachapoyasensis C. DC. 



Prodi-., 16: 1, p. 449. 



Distributio geographica: Peruvia ad Chachapoyas (Mattews in IIb. lioisN.). 



Subgenus VII. BliyilCOphorillll (Miq. ex. p.) Dabist. 



Miq. Syst, Pip. p. 178 ex. p. — Heiischen, Etudes Peper. p. minore p. (P. major). 



Herbw v. suffrutices, carnosi, glabri usque tomentosi, repentes v. erecti, basi v. p. 

 max. p. radicantes. Folio, alterna (raro subopposita), + crassa, obovata — obovato-oblonga 

 v. oblongo-lanceolata, basi + decurrente, petiolata — subsessilia, haud peltata, v. etiam 

 cordato-ovata — cordato-reniformia v. ovato-lanceolata, saepe + peltata. Amenta vulgo 

 solitaria, terminalia et axillaria, vulgo crassa., carnosa, saepe longa — longissima. Bacca 

 verrucosa, scutulo obliquo, apice + coneavo — coneaviusculo (rarius convexo), supra 

 medium stigmatifero, antice in processum + longuni acutum — obtusum, saepe a]>ice 

 ipso hamatum, v. brevem, aeutiusculum — obtusum protracto praedita. 



Conspectns sectionum. 



Bacca parva — medioris, cylindrico-ovata, apice scutulo obliquo concavo-concaviusculo, 



postice in processum saepius longum protracto praedita. 



A. Processus acutus apice recto v. hamato. Folia haud peltata, basi + decurrente. 



s<ctio A. Oxyrhynchum Dabist. 



B. Processus + obtusus - obtusiusculus. Folia peltata v. basi + cordata, rarius 

 rotundata petiolo margine atlixo. 



Sectio B. Malacorhynchum Dahlst. 



