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422 PIPERACEAE. - [Peperomia. 
8. P. membranacea, Hook. d& Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. — DC. Prod. 
ae = 459, — Stems erect, glabrous, 1!/2—2 ft. high, able branching 
r the alent. cpa often ha below, in whorls o ve, 
ean ovato-, blong, acute or acuminate, 11/2—3/ >< fa 1/2', 
on petioles of ROD membranous pan 5 aap igo basal or subbasal 
nerves, the median extending to the apex, the tw next converging 
abrous underneat Spikes in terminal and axillary whorls, slender 
filiform, projecting lent the leaves, 2—4‘ long including a ‘podsunale 
of 6—9", rather loosely flowered. Stigma on a short oblique beak. Berry 
short ovoid, almost free. — Wawra, 
ahu! in dense woods. — In narrow oe more elongate leaves the inner pair of 
lateral nerves often leaves the median at some nea above the base, thus approaching 
- Macraeana. Short- and broad-leaved forms, with the terminal whorls fuller and 
the spikes longer, tend toward P. estoecacaa: — The species is reported also from the 
Islands. 
% var. Gaudichaudii. — Leaves thicker and rather pale, but quite 
glabrous. — P. Gaudich. Miq. Syst. Pip. p. 137. — DC. Prod. 1. e. p. 460. 
— Wawra, I. 
Oahu! on eth ranges, % 
9. P. hypoleuca,: Mig. — DC. Prod. 1. ¢. p. 459. — Stems 1—2 ft. high, 
erect, branching near the top; the young branches, petioles, larger nerves 
and peduncles shortly hairy. Leaves thick, opaque, pale, almost whitish 
sith and papillo- puberulous, their position, shape and size as in 
macea, the lower ones generally smaller and obovate, obtuse. 
Spikes thick fleshy, densely flowered, not Sy Bigs beyond the leaves, 
about 2‘ long See a peduncle of 3— 
Oahu! Kaala ra 
8 var. montis . — A much smaller plant, many-stemmed from the 
root, the erect stems 6 —10‘ long, thickly tomentose with coarse dark-brown 
hairlets. Leaves 3—8 in a whorl, broad elliptical, ovate or obovate, 
obtuse, even rounded, or ed acute, 4—12" >< 3—8”, on petioles 
extending to the middle and the median mostly aes nerved besides. 
Spikes terminal in whorls of 3— 7, short and thick, 1—1'/4‘ long, pubescent, 
densely flowered, Stigma broad, sessile, papillose, oblique in the ovary, 
the 
a ‘tte Eeka. a the appearance of P. hirsuta, Miq., from Brazil, but is less 
and has shorter spikes. 
{ var. Kauaiensis. — Leaves 1—2! long, oblanceolate or oblong, bluntly 
acuminate, opaque, pale underneath but almost glabrate, at most onl 
