418 PIPERACEAE. [ Peperomia. 
species terminal and axillary. No bget Sees Stem with a single fibro- 
vasal annulus. 
A large genus of 370 species spread over the tropics of the whole world. 
All entries Peperomias have a sessile 8 tigma, hein in the fully formed fruit is al- 
ways apica also oblique subanterior; the difference 
seems to fe epend on the depth and length of the events in which the e ovary is imbedded. 
In deep foveoles, which, as a rule, are also short, the apex of the growing ovary is by 
pressure fro: ind and above et forward, so as to appear oblique for a period, 
but to become straight again as soo the berry has emerged, as has been polis 
out by Wawra. In shallow and ie foveoles Be steos is apical “from beginnin s.© 
end, and, as these occur in slender spikes, tic 
pasate an ates Ph ique stigmas in the ovary simply become convertible terms 
stigma Haserdy ioe is be broad and expanded in all species, but, as it is apt to 
be torn by the ing paper in esteatenes of its adhesiveness, the character seldom 
comes out properly in the dried plant. Oil-glands, as indicated by pellucid — seem 
to be present in all g Sri but visible on superficial examination only in e with 
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remarks as are suggested by ine Patipescea of my own herbarium, adding thereto 
two others described by Wawra since appearance of that Volume and three new ones 
collected by myself. Native name ” mn species: «Alaalawainui». 
Leaves Rerwstce 
Leavi tities: rhomboid, thin, pubescent 1. P. purpurascens. 
: rhe obtuse rhomboidal apr glabrous 2. P. pallida. 
Leaves sitiasies incenclane acu 3. P. Oahuensis. 
Leaves rie 
‘Leaves no 4, P. insularum 
Leaves eae Nesey on both fac Bi Pe Fernandeziana. 
Leaves in coe — the upper Sactics ones: 
ves large, r more in Jen ngth : 
Leaves oblon: ute at both 3; erect _ 1}/2—4 ft. high: 
Leaves as -nervi 6. P. Macraeana. 
Leaves pedately 5- 
Leaves glabrous 3 sanusky thin; spikes filiform, pro- 
jecting beyond the leaves P. membranacea. 
Leaves pubescent and whitish underneath, subcoriaceous; 
ikes not projectin j ; P. hypoleu 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved P. He sucronconll 
—o obovate or ovate-obtnse & i nerved: plant lo than 
P. latifolia, 
ee shad than Da’ in length : 
Leaves orbicular, obovate or spathulate, ogee the apex: 
Leaves thick k fleshy, about 1’ in 1 a 
Spikes several and term 12. P. pachyphylla. 
Spike 
single, terminal, very lo: mee 1. 1B. P. Sandwicensis. 
