426 PIPERACEAE. [ Peperomia. 
without pellucid dots. Spikes terminal or on short axillary shoots, 1—3 
in the uppermost whorl, slender, 1—1!/2‘ long, with a peduncle or 3—4”. 
Ovary pe ate but net ricsene “atigms ‘apical. 
wW.M ihee lly broader, 
1-nerved got es from ear about 2000 ft. above the — This, and not P. Hes- 
nice watt is the nameless no. 463 of Mann's ci A ‘thend 184). 
16. P. reflexa, A. Dietr. — DC. Prod. 1. c. p. 451. — Stems several from 
a fibrous root, 4—6‘ long, decumbent and pm below, -angular-sulcate, 
glabrous, or sometimes snberni us at the nodes. Leaves in close whorls 
of 3—4, broadly ovate-obtuse, or rhomboidal, or suborbicular, 4—8" X 
4185 on short pubescent petioles which do not exceed 1” in length, 
pale, glabrous and glossy above, puberulous or punctulate underneath, 
thick fleshy, with the lower face convex, indistinctly 3-nerved, wrink ed 
in the dried state, with pellucid dots. Spike solitary, terminal, 11/2—2'/2' 
long, including a puberulous peduncle of 6—9, thick, densely pubescent 
and very closely flowered, with deep foveoles. Stigma apical, suboblique. 
Berry ovoid-elongate, shortly beaked, immersed at the base. — ip 
reflecum, L. f. — iit ig ti a Forst. — Peperomia tetraphylla, 
Hook, & Arn. — Wawra, 1. ¢ 
all islands, ping « on rocks and aa —Is se on many islands of the Pacific, 
in the East can from tropical Africa the Cape, and in America from Ja maica to 
Brazil. The species is eee uniform throught our ane but the following forms 
deserve to. te. iesationed as local variet: 
8 var. Honolulensis, Wawra. — Quite glabrous, the stems as thick as 
a goose-quill and 1 ft. long. Leaves oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse, 
over 1‘ long, on se ae petioles of 11/2“. Spikes hirsute along the 
ridges of the foveo 
Dry guiches above nek (Wawra). 
‘< var. elongata. — Quite glabrous. Stems very slender, 5—8’ long, 
decumbent and rooting freely, with long internodes of 1/2—2'. Leaves 
occasionally opposite below, rhomboidal or ovate-obtuse, 3—4” long, thin 
membranous when dry, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves converging and 
joining ig median near the apex. Spikes faintly pubescent. 
On trees; Mopulehu, Molokai! 
The aa of the leaves varies in the same plant; they may ae reieaans with emar- 
ginate apex below, while the upper ones are ovate with obtuse 
17. P. parvula, sp. n. — Stems decumbent, rooting, the ascending 
portion slender, 2—5” long, densely hirsute with fawn-colored hair. 
Leaves opposite to quaternate, orbicular or ovate-obtuse, 31/2—5" <3 a 
on hairy petioles of '/4—1'/2', subchartaceous when diy, hispid above, 
pubescent underneath and purplish-red except along the nerves, Opaques 
obscurely 3-nerved, the lateral nerves ceasing about the middle, dotted 
with a few peliacia glands. Spikes terminal, 3 in a whorl, 16” long 
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