424 PIPERACEAE. [ Peperomia. 
ovoid -globose, partly immersed. (Descr. from the Prod.) — Mig. Ill. Pip. 
p. 20, tab, 15. — Wawra, in Flora, 1875, p. 191. — P. suber enata, Klotzsch, 
Oahu (Meyen, in herb. Berlin). — Is hardly more than a larger and often thinner- 
leaved form of P. pachyph oe Pichi which it shares the same habitat. My collection 
sfrom Oa k t 1 
thick as in P. pachyphylla, with ba nerves impressed below, but generally thinner, 
glabrate stone puberulous and pale underneath. Spikes of variable thickness, but not 
filiform, mostly terminal and projecting beyond the leaves, 2—4‘ long, including a Appa 
uncle of i i i A 
Wawra's descriptio : n agrees q uite well. His specimens came from valet , Kevat 
P. marginata, Mia Re om the island of Bourbon (in hb. Berlin) only aie in the dark 
dots on leaves a pikes 
2. P. SLES Mig. — DC. Prod. 1. e. p. 460. — Stem smooth, 8‘ 
fee rooting at the base, dichotomously branching, the younger branches 
ubescent. Leaves opposite and quaternate, on petioles of 4—7", re 
or obovate-orbicular,* 11/2‘ 1’, hairy epee. Soni ie underneath 0 
glabrate with age, fash, opaque, generally 3-, sometimes 5-nerved, ie 
median nerve reaching to the apex, the eer ones nearly as far, the 
external ones to the middle. Belson axillary on anges of 5—7", 
filiform, densely flowered, glabrous, 1‘ long. Stigma oblique. Berry 
immersed with the base, ovate-acute. (Descr. ae the Prod.) Oily 
dots, when perceptible, few and large. 
Oahu! (Cham. in hb. Berlin, Lay & Collie, Seem. in hb. pte ih hb. DC). 
oe; Poe scen 
rather thick and dense. — Should the preceding species be united with the present one, 
the name pachyphylla ought to be retained as being most preset nen tic. 
B var. picta. — Leaves obovate or rhomboidal, 10—15 X 8—10”, 
purplish underneath oe along the nerves. P. vestioitiota: Hook. & Arn.? 
Oahu! Makiki and Pau 
~ var. insularum. — Coa oarsely hirsute with reddish hair. Leaves not 
exceeding 1‘, orbicular or obovate, or ovate with a short acumination, 
less fleshy than before, with the basal nerves moderately impressed. 
Tower — mostly al in young cent even alternate. 
; e Manoa and Pal hu 
13, P. oo Miq. — DC. Prod. 1. ¢. p. 460. — Fleshy, 4’ high, 
branching from the base, the branches simple or sparingly divided, 
