Feperomia.] cxiii. piperace.e (baker and wrigut). 151 



shortly peduncled, lateral and terminal ; bracts orbicular, peltate, 

 glandular. Anthers elliptic, about as long as the filaments. Ovary 

 turbinate, obtuse, obliquely flattened ; stigma oblique. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Buena, in woods, 4000 ft., Freuss, 863. 



Var. tenui.'ijncafa, Engl. Spikes very slender. 



XTpper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipiude, Ze7iker, 3097 ! 



9. P. vulcanica, Bake?' d- C. II. Wright. Stems creeping and root- 

 ing at the base, then ascending to a height of 6 in., stout, fleshy, glabrous. 

 Leaves distinctly petioled, alternate, oblong or ovate, 1-2 in. long by half 

 as broad, obtuse, cuneate at the base, thick, opaque, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, distinctly triplinerved from the base. Spikes lateral and 

 terminal, shortly peduncled, li-2 in. long; rhachis pitted, glabrous; 

 bracts round-peltate, glabrous. Ovary sessile, globose ; stigma minute, 

 terminal, oblique. — F. monticola, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 217; 

 €. DO. in DO. Prodr. xvi. i. 422 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 188, 

 not of Miq. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: lava fields on Cameroon Mountain, 8000 ft., 

 Mann, 1305 ! 



10. P. Holstiiy C. DC. in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 220. Perennial, 

 growing on old tree-trunks. Stems rooting at the base, then ascending, 

 1-2 ft. long, slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate, distinctly petioled, 

 ovate, 1-2 in. long, subacute or obtuse, rounded or cuneate at the base, 

 moderately firm, indistinctly 5-nerved from the base, opaque, obscurely 

 pellucid-punctate, glabrous on both surfaces. Spikes leaf-opposed or 

 terminal, shortly peduncled, very slender, 2-3 in. long ; rhachis pitted ; 

 bracts orbicular, peltate, subsessile. Berry globose, ^ lin. long, sessile ; 

 stigma terminal. — Hiern in Oat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. Ulo. P.fernando' 

 2)oana,Ya.r. subopacifolia, 0. DO. in DO. Prodr. xvi. i. 397, and in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xix. 227 ; var. aciUi/olia, 0. DO. in Engl. I.e. F. Zenkeri^ 

 0. DO. in Engl. I.e. 226. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Johnson, 176 ! Cameroons : Yannde, 2500 ft., 

 Zenker ^ Stmidt, 59 ! Zenker, 619, 1401 ! Buca, 3000 ft., Preuss, 886, 1060 ! 

 Bipinde, Zenker, 1783b ! 



Iiower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas : in forests at Fazenda de Monte CafPe, 

 1800 ft., Welwitsch, 507 ! Angola: Pungo Andongo ; on rocks in Mata do Pungo 

 in the Pricsidium, Welwitsch, 505 ! 



XWEozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Usambara, Hoist, 8832 ! 



11. P. ulugurensis, Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 374. A small herb. Stems 

 glabrous, decumbent at the base, then ascending, slightly branched, 4 in. 

 long. Leaves few, alternate, petioled, oblong, about 6 lin. long, 3-4 lin. 

 wide, rather thick, ciliate at the apex, glabrous elsewhere ; midrib and 

 main veins indistinct ; petiole 4 lin. long. Spike terminal, 10 lin. long, 

 J lin, in diam. ; peduncle 4-7 lin. long ; bracts orbicular, peltate, sub- 

 sessile. Ovary depressed subovoid ; stigma terminal. Berry J lin. in 

 diam. 



