Peperomia. | PIPERACBAE, 423 
faintly puberulous. Spikes exceeding the leaves, 3—31/2’ long and rather 
slender. 
Kauai! Waimea (Kn.). — Intermediate between the present speciesand P. membranacea. 
10. P. pracypicote Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 96. — DC. Prod. 
l. ¢: p. 448. — Stems weak and slender, suberect or decumbent, 1—2 ft. 
id oe with gray spreading hairlets, horizontally branching from 
e base upward, the branches in whorls and the lowest often exceeding 
: fk in length with internodes of 1'/2—4‘. Leaves mostly ternate, often 
opposite below, in whorls of 4 or 5 or more above, on hairy petioles of 
3—9", elliptico-oblong or obovate, acuminate, 1—1 te! XK te—l', 
Sutin 4 and the lowest cauline (these ehevates obtuse) much smaller, 
thin but opaque, scarcely areolate, with minute pellucid glands, 3—5-nerved, 
the lateral nerves running out above the middle, hairy on both faces or 
piers above. Spikes very numerous in terminal and axillary whorls 
every branch, 4—7 to a whorl, but often 7—12 in the terminal one, 
ale nder filifo Tt 2—5/ long including a puberulous peduncle of ei, 
distantly flowered. Bracts orbicular, very small. Berry 8 small ovoid- 
globose, scarcely immersed. Stigma minute, oblique at first, but short 
apical at ae — Mig. Syst. Pip. p. 138. — Hook. Lond, Journ, Bot. 
¥ 4h: 
Twawaiis 2 Kohala range; E. & W. Maui! between 3000 a nd 4000 ft. above the se 
hu (Lay. & Collie). — The plant grows in dense clumps or leans for support against 
etter osahuan Is found also in Tahiti, Nukahiva, and N. E. Aust ralia from Sydney 
isban 
r. nodosa. — Stems suberect, 6—10‘ high, contracted with tumid 
ely approximate nodes. Leaves mostly opposite, ovate or oblong 
and somewhat obtuse, 6—9" 4“, on puberulous petioles of 1“, faintly 
3-nerved, pubescent on both faces or glabrate above. Spikes numerous 
as before and filiform, but shorter, 2—2!/2’. 
dry scrub of the eastern end of Oahu! and the western end of Molokai! 
oes the s es Kth., a species 
the greater part of eudial America. — Wawra’s P. insularum probably phy ie here. 
11. P. latifolia, Mig. — DC. Prod. 1. ¢. p. 448. — Stem fleshy, 10° high, 
decumbent and rooting at the base, the josnbes stems with reddish hairlets. 
Leaves opposite or ternate, on pubescent petioles of 7-8", ovate-elliptical 
or obovate-rounded, acute at the base, 16— 20” < 12—16”, glabrous 
above, pubescent underneath, dotted, 5- or obsoletely 7-nerved and 
reticulate, the median nerve reaching the apex, the first lateral p 
extending to beyond the middle, the second to the middle, the sas 
ones losing themselves in the margin. Spikes ax axillary and terminal, twice 
as long as the leaves, filiform, densely flowered, on hairy or glabrate 
peduncles which ered the petioles. Stigma minute, apical. Try 
