420 PIPERACEAE. (Peperomia. 
snot connate 1—23/2' & 3— acute at both ends, on petioles of 3—4", quite 
glabro mbranous, with minute “pln dots, pale Loar eager reticulate, 3-nerved, 
the Paine Matern! nerves § egos om & xcurTel the apex Spik ry, single or vielen 
slender, not exceeding the leaves, g erdka, towel iagiaieiets Stigm. 
apical and suboblique. aoecinn ings obovoid, sepia On 
4. P, insularum, Mig. — DC. Prod. 1. c. p. 444: — Stems pubescent, 
rooting below, tumid at the nodes. Leaves all opposite, on petioles of 
3—5, ovate, acute at the apex, rounded or attenuate at the base, 
7" 4", rigid, subopaque, the younger ones Ae escent particularly 
along the nerves underneath, not reticulate, 3-n , the central nerve 
running to the apex, the labaral ones only to the iad Spikes axillary 
and terminal, on peduncles of 2—3”', filiform, densely flowered, somewhat 
iry. Ovary projecting. erat minute, apical and subanterior. 
Oahu (Diell, no. 53 in herb. Kew). 
B var. glabrata. — Leaves larger, 14 X 6”, on petioles of 2—4”, 
glabrous. soa thicker. (Descr. from the Prod.) — Diell, in herb. 
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‘barium contains mixed with P. gi ey from Oahu three ols sehen only 
nes are obovate to orbicular as in true P. p a I had taken ther for you 
plants of that species, the leaves being hairy, rigid, opaque, with impressed nerves and 
not areolate. From the pali of Wailau, M i, again, re is a specimen with 
bri y ovate and shorily acuminate leaves, 6—12” long, exactly as in P. insularum. 
Here - leaves stand a ai —— at the apex where a are ternate. These grew 
together with P. Cookiana what less hairy and fleshy than ordinary small-leaved 
forms , P. pachyphylla, oa aoa not very different. stm they mark a transition 
from P. pachyphylla to P. Cookiana 
P. Fernandeziana, Mig. — DC. Prod. 1. c. p. 445. — Stems erect, 
eas branching, Paaeaent: hirsute at the nodes. Leaves opposite, 
rarely ternate, on pubescent petioles of 3—9", about 10—12” long, the 
upper ones ovate-oblong, somewhat acute, the lower suborbicular, truncate- 
dark-dotted on both faces, 
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the apex, the lateral ones disappearing above the middle. 
Spikes axillary, opposite or ternate, 16—20” pate: on peduncles of 6”, 
loosely Sswdied) Ovary impressed, ne se, with minute stigma. (Descr. 
from the Prod.) — Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. V, 4, p. 423. — Wight, 
Te. Pl. Ind. Or. tab. 1923. 
Pitre any in herb. Brit. Mus.). — A species of Juan Fernandez, Chile and the 
6. P. Macraeana, Cas. DC. in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1866, p. 145. — DC. Prod. 
l. ¢. p. 457, — Branches s glabrous, or puberulous with ochraceous hairlets. 
Leaves ternate, elliptico- share 21/2— 31/0‘ as nantes , on glabrous 
petioles of 11/2’, acute at bot , glabrous above, rulous under- 
neath along the nerves, stiff ceca. calialiece ear -neryed, the 
median nerve extending to the apex, prominent underneath and sending 
