Peperomia.| PIPERACEAE. 419 
Leaves thin, less than 1’ in length: 
Leaves ovate-obtuse or reeds ee underneath 17. P. parvula. 
Leayes spathulate or a ae 2 . 14. P. Mauiensis. 
s 1- or faintly 3-nerved; wens 
Leaves lanceolate, flat and thin P : ; : A 15. P. ligustrina. 
Leaves ovate-obtuse, thick fleshy. : : A : 16. P. reflexa. 
Leaves Te d; stem terete: 
Plant erect, branching near the iad with erect branches; 
leaves pale underneath, oblon . P. hypoleuc 
var. eee ‘Eeka. 
Plant t erect, pore. branching from the base; leaves 
- -lanceolat 19, P. pleistostachya. 
Plant weak Neel mbent, branching from the base upward; 
leaves ovate or obovate 18. P. Cookiana. 
Leaves 5- suaven thik reticulate; spikes numerous and long, 
filiform 10. P. leptostachya. 
. P. purpurascens, “Wes tt. _ De. Prod. XVL Sect. I, p. 417. — Branches 
pubescent. Cauline leaves alternate, on long (11/4’) pubescent petioles, 
rather obtusely rhomboidal or chovete, 18—20” long and half as broad, 
glabrous above, pubescent underneath, Oe eee, rather pellucid, 
3—5-nerved, the central nerve de sights: to the apex, the lateral ones 
nearly as high, all slender and with the veins ropa Spikes terminal, 
filiform, densely flowered, 3 times as long as the leaves. Ovary immersed, 
Xi a Spd oblique stigma. ee ovoid, acute. (Descr. from the Prod.) 
Islds. (Nuttall in herb. Brit. Mus.). — Probably Wawra’s P. latifolia, var. 
Pras from lei, Kauai, or Home here: «folia ovata et orbicularia, infima 
minuta ee longitndine latiora, manifeste nervosa, 5 ervis osis, 
membra a. m ode eaulis si plerumque gemina. Ovarium _ obovatum, in 
apice wae stigmatife », — Nuttall’s plants were mainly collected o ai. 
2. P. pallida, A. 8 — DC. Prod. 1. ¢. p. 418. — Stem erect, glabrous. 
Leayes alternate, on glabrous petioles of 3”, elliptico- or obovato- 
rhomboidal, 21/2‘ 10”, epi ee obtuse, subcoriaceous, glabrous on 
both faces, 3—5-nerved, the 3 middle nerves extending to the apex, the 
external ones smaller. aad axillary, single, filiform, densely fiend, 
about 11/2‘ Jong, on glabrous peduncles of 6—7“’. Stigma minute, oblique. 
Berry ovoid, half immersed. (Descr. from the pay — da Syst. Pip. 
p. 103. — Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 96. — Piper pallidum, Forst. and 
Willd. 
ahu (Lay and oe — Occurs also in Tahiti and the Viti Islands. — Doubtful 
as to the Sandw. Islan 
San ft bahiauita’” his DC. in Prod. 1. e. p. 422. — Branchlets glabrous. 
Leayes alternate, on glabrous petioles of 4‘’, oblong-elliptical, 12“ X 4”, 
acute, glabrous, subopaque, reticulate, 3-nerved (?). Spikes axillary, on 
peduncles of 4”, filiform, densely flowered. (Descr. from the Prod.) — 
ietr.? 
Oahu (Beechey in herb. Kew). — I have plants from Halemano, Oahu 
id tel : with the store Several 
Slender stems from a fibrous root, erect and decumbent, glabrous, 4—6° 
