Pejperomia PIPEEACE.'E 5 



t. 4. Acrocai'pidium hispidulum Mlq. Syst. Pip. 54 (1843). 

 (Fig. 1, D.) 



In damp peaty soil in shady woods; Blue Mfcs., Swartzl Newhaven 

 Gap, 5600 ft. ; Blue Mt. Peak, 7400 ft. ; Morse's Gap, 4800-5000 ft. ; 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6728, 7548, 7970, 8320.— Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, 

 Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay. 



Stems erect, sometimes decumbent and rooting below, hispidulous at 

 the nodes, 4-8 cm. 1. Leaves thinly membranous, 4-12 mm. 1. and br. ; 

 stalk 2-3 mm. 1. Spikes 7-10 mm. 1. ; peduncles 3-5 mm. 1. Berries 

 ellipsoidal, '7- '8 mm. 1. ; mucro '15- "2 mm. 1. ; stalk "5 mm. 1. 



§ 2. Berries sessile, subglobose, with several longitudinal 

 verruculose ribs, mucronate, with stigma terminal. Leaves 

 alternate. 



2. P. pellueida Kunth in H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. i. 64 

 (1816); glabrous; leaves subcordate-deltoid ; spikes filiform, 

 not fleshy, lax-flowered. — Haw. Succ. 6 ; Miq. op. cit. 79 ; Griseb. 

 loc. cit.; C. DC. torn. cit. 244 & iv. 189; Dahlst. op. cit. 16, t. I. 

 f. 1. P. concinna A. Dietr. torn. cit. 164 (1831). Saururus minor 

 procumbens <fec. Plum. Descr. PI. Amer. 54, t. 72 & Ic. ined. 

 iv. t. 239. Piper peDucidum L. Sp. PI. 30 (1753). P. concinnum 

 Haw. Succ. Bev. 198 (1821). (Fig. 1, A-C.) 



In damp shady soil ; Swartz in Herb. Stockh. ! J.P. 713, yiorris ! Hope, 

 700 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6251, 8352 ; Bath, O. Niclwls ! Port Antonio, 

 Millspatigh. — Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Bartholomew, Guade- 

 loupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Barbados, Grenada, Tobago, 

 Trinidad, trop. America to Peru, W. Africa. 



Stems 1-3 dm. high, erect, branching, with rather long internodes. 

 Leaves thinly membranous, pellucid, 1 • 5-2 • 5 cm. 1. and br. ; stalk • 5-1 cm. 1. 

 Spikes 2-5 cm. 1.; bracts -4 mm. br. ; peduncles usually about "5 cm. 1. 

 Berries '9-1 mm. 1. 



§ 3. Berries stalked, obovate to oblong, smooth, at the apex 

 with a conical-curved or discoid appendage, with the 

 stigma just below the apex. Leaves' alternate. 



3. P. tenella A. Dietr. torn. cit. 153 (1831); leaves ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, glabrous but sometimes ciliate near apex ; 

 spikes filiform, slightly swollen, lax-flowered ; berries stalked, 

 stalk about as long as berry. — Griseh. loc. cit. ; C. DC. in Urh. 

 Symb. Ant. Hi. 224 ; Dahlst. op. cit. 21, t. IV. f. 5. Piper tenellum 

 Sio. Prodr. 16 (1788), Fl. Ind. Occ. 65 & Ic. ined. t. 31. Acro- 

 carpidium tenellum Miq. op. cit. 53 (1843). (Pig. 1, E.) 



Amongst mosses on trees; Blue Mts., Swartzl Wiles \ Bertero ; 

 Wilson; March \ Catherine's Peak, Eggers ; Cinchona, 5000 ft., Watt\ 

 road to John Crow Peak, 5400 ft. ; Morse's Gap, 5000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam, 

 8323, 8335 ; John Crow Peak, G. Nichols ! — Cuba, Guadeloupe, Venezuela, 

 Brazil. 



Stem creeping and rooting at nodes ; flowering branches erect or ascend- 

 ing, below leafless, 3-12 cm. high. Leaves pellucid-dotted, 8-17 mm. 1., 

 4-10 mm. br. ; stalk 1-1-5 mm. 1. Spikes 2-4 cm. 1., •5--9 mm. br. ; 



