Peperomia.) PIPERACEAE. 421 
off on each side in the lower third 2—4 ascending weaker nerves, the 
uppermost of which almost reach the apex. Spikes filiform, equalling the 
leaves. in Jength, on glabrous peduncles of 5“, densely flowered. Ovary 
impressed, obovate, with oblique stigma. (Descr. from the Prod. 
Hawaii! (Macrae, in herb. Brit. Mus.); W. Maui! Molokai! Maunahut, Pelekunu 
in forests. — - iaiiaupa from Hawaii were collected in the Kohala range and in 
the woods of £ 
The species is seats the largest of all known Peperomias, the fleshy brown stems, 
which equal a man’s thumb in thickness, often exceeding 4 ft. in height. Leaves opposite 
P up to 
in wh —5, ll green below (not pale), and tly long acuminate, t 
4° 1 , sometime n and su lucid, oftener chartaceous and paque, but 
always areolate and with several small rves issuing e snerve in 
third, besides the larger ones from the lower. Spikes in the axils of the one or 
two uppermost whorls, not projecting beyond the leaves, 2—31/2‘ in length, uivek ieee 
and glabrous, densely flowered. Stigma sessile, broad, oblique. — In a 
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8 var. picta. — Leaves opposite (in young plants often alternate) and 
ternate, ovato- or elliptico-oblong, acute or acuminate, 1!/2—2’ long, 
chartaceous, opaque, purplish underneath excepting the neryes, and 
papillo- puberulous throughout. 
Maui! Waihee and Waiehu. 
~ var. nervosa. — Stems shorter, 1'/2—2 ft. high, quite glabrous. Leaves 
3—5 in a whorl, elliptico-lanceolate, 2—3’ X 6—10, acute at both ends, 
on oss of 4—8”, thick chartaceous, glabrous on both faces, sbi 
purplish raderneaty excepting the course of the nerves, penni-nerved — 
in the manner of P. Macraeana, but all the nerves prominent cha ae 
and impressed above, the inner pair joining the margin near the apex. 
Kanai! Waimea (Kn. 1 nila — Along with this Mr. Knudsen sends a form with very 
narrow leaves, 3-nerved from the base, not colored underne ath. 
7. P. Hesperomannii, Wawra, in Flora, 1875, p. 226. — Stem solitary, 
1 ft. high, erect from a decumbent base, simple or once forking, slender, 
quite glabrous. Leaves opposite below, quaternate above, linear or linear- 
lanceolate, 2—21/2 < 2—3"', gradually narrowing to petioles of 2—3", 
bluntly acuminate, membranous, glabrous except at the ciliate apex, deep 
een “and glossy above, pale underneath, densely dotted with small 
pellucid glands, 1-nerved, sometimes with 2 faint lateral nerves besides. 
Spikes terminal, solitary or twin, 3‘ long on peduncles of 3—4“, loosely 
flowered, the flowers in spirals separated by broad bands of naked rhachis 
and approximating near the apex. Bracts peltate, glandular, with a road 
diaphanous margin. Filaments twice the length of the anthers. ee 
appressed to the rhachis, with apical or suboblique stigma. 
Kauai, Mt. Waiale ale, 6000 ft. Not unlike P. myrtillus, Miq., or P. Swartziana 
(Wawra). — Probably is connected with var. { of the preceding species 
