Feperomia.] cxiii. piperace^ (baker and wrigiit). 155 



pubescent. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, rhomboid, 1 in. long, 

 6 lin. wide, moderately stout, opaque, pubescent on both surfaces, 

 obscurely 3-5-nerved from the base. Spikes terminal and lateral, 

 peduncled, long, slender ; bracts rotundate, peltate ; rhachis pitted. 

 Ovary globose, sessile ; stigma terminal, minute. 



IMCozamb. Dlsta Germati East Africa : Karagwe ; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3810. 

 The type occurs in South Africa, Madagascar, Socotra and Arabia. 

 Johnson 181 from Melsetter, Rhodesia, probably belongs to this species. 



24. P. Dusenii, C. DC. in Engl. Jahrh. xix. 229. Stem branched, 

 rooting at the base; branches densely pubescent. Leaves ternate, 

 shortly petioled, obovate-cuneate, less than 6 lin. long, 3 lin. wide, 

 densely pubescent on both surfaces, obscurely triplinerved. Spikes 

 terminal and axillary, peduncled, three times as long as the leaves; 

 peduncle pubescent ; rhachis glabrous ; bracts orbicular, peltate, shortly 

 stalked. Ovary obovoid, obtuse, shortly stalked ; stigma oblique. 

 Fruit cylindrical, distinctly stalked, glabrous. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons, Dusen, 436. 



25. P. reflexa, A. Dietr. Sp. PL i. 180. Stems creeping, tufted, 

 3-6 in. long, once or twice dichotomously forked, tetragonal, deeply 

 sulcate when dried. Leaves usually 4 in a whorl, obovate, obtuse, 

 3-4 lin. long, bright green, rigidly coriaceous, obscurely triplinerved. 

 Spikes terminal, solitary, 6-18 lin. long, distinctly peduncled; rhachis 

 pilose, deeply pitted ; bracts round, subsessile. Ovary ovoid ; stigma 

 terminal, penicillate. Fruit oblong, narrowed to a point, deeply im- 

 mersed in the pits of the rhachis. — Miq. Syst. Piper. 1G9, and in Hook. 

 Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. (1845), 426 ; Wight, Ic. 1. 1923, fig. 1 ; Baker, FI. 

 Maurit. 298 ; C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. i. 451 ; Hook, f . Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 V. 99; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 159 ; Dawe in Rep. Bot. Uganda Protect. 

 1906, 55. Piper reflexum, Linn. f. Suppl. 91. Micropiper pus'dlum^ 

 Miq. Comm. Phyt. 62, t. 5, fig. B. 



Ulle Ziand. Uganda : Molo Forest, Bawe, 4 ! Mawokota, 3900 ft., Brown, 

 157 ! Mau, on old tree-trunks, 7000 ft., Scott-Elliot^ 6861 ! 



Iiower G-ulnea. Island of St. Thomas, Henriques. 



niozamb. I>l8t. German East Africa : Kiliu)anjaro ; Marangu, 7200 ft., 

 Volkeyis, 1286! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mount Malosa, 4000 ft., 

 Whyte! Palombe, Mount Milanji, McClounie, 2\ Zomba Plateau, 5000 ft., 

 Whyte ! 



Also in Natal and Mauritius, and throughout the warmer regions of both 

 hemispheres. 



Imperfectly known species. 



26. P. martiana, Miq.? ; C. DC. in Bol. Soc. Brot. x. 154. Sterile 

 specimens of a plant resembling this in leaf and habit have been col- 

 lected by Quintas in the island of St. Thomas. It has a glabrous stem, 

 rooting at the base, and alternate obovate-cuneate rigid obtuse glabrous 



