6 FLORA OF JAMAICA Pejperomia 



peduncles -5-1 cm. 1.; bracts "S-'T mm. br. Berries 1"5 mm. 1., 

 narrowly obovate, 2-ribbed, mucronate with the apical appendage which 

 is thick and discoid at base and conical-curved above ; stigma terminal. 



4. P. emarg-inella C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi.pt. 1, 437 (1869) ; 

 leaves minute, long-stalked, roundish, truncate or emarginulate 

 at apex, sometimes slightly cordate at base, with a few long 

 hairs ; spikes slightly fleshy, somewhat lax-flowered ; berries 

 stalked, stalk nearly half as long as berry. — G. DC. in Urb. Symb. 

 Ant. Hi. 225 & iv. 187; Hemch. J^tud. 23, /. I. f. Q ; Dahht. op. 

 cit. 22, t. I. f. 4, t. IV. f. 4. P. exilis Griseh. op. cit. 164 (1859) ; 

 C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 397. P. minima C. DC. to7n. cit. 

 399. Piper emarginellum Sw. in Vet. Handl. Stockh. 1827, 56 

 (1828). Acrocarpidium exile 3Iiq. op. cit. 56 (1843). Type in 

 Herb. Stockholm. 



On trees; Blue Mts., Swarfzl Wilson. — Cuba, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, 

 Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Trinidad. In Swartz's Herbarium 

 in Stockholm there is a specimen labelled " In Jamaicse montibus coeruleis : 

 O. Swartz ! " Dahlstedt records a specimen (No. 626) from Wilson in 

 Herb. Grisebach, but, so far as we know, it has not been collected in 

 recent years. 



Stems clustered, creeping, much branched, glabrous. Leaves 3-4 mm. 1., 

 4-5 mm. br. ; stalks 2-3 mm. 1. Spikes about 1 cm. 1., 'e-'S mm. br. ; 

 peduncles longer than the petioles; bracts •4mm.br. Berries slightly 

 verruculose, obovate-oblong, apical appendage subdiscoid, oblique, 

 •7--8 mm. 1. ; stalk '3 mm. 1. 



§ 4. Berries sessile, oblong-ellipsoidal broadening slightly 

 above, verruculose, apical appendage small, flat, somewhat 

 oblique, with stigma subcentral. Leaves alternate. 



5. P. basellifolia Kunth torn. cit. 66 (1816); glabrous ; leaves 

 lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, apex long-acuminate and some- 

 times curved, at the base cuneate and decurreut into the petiole, 

 leathery-membranous ; spikes solitary, terminal, about as long 

 as the leaves, thick, dense-flowered.— C DC, in DC. Prodr. xvi. 

 pt. 1, 406 ; Dahlst. op. cit. 48, t. I. f. 33. 



In peaty soil in shady woodland ; Morse's Gap, 5000 ft. ; near Vinegar 

 Hill, 4200 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam, 8318, 8332 ; John Crow Peak, Q. Nichols I 

 — Venezuela, Colombia, Peru. 



Stem succulent, erect from a procumbent base, simple, sometimes 

 branching, 2-4 dm. high, 3-7 mm. br., bare of leaves below, rooting near 

 base. Leaves variable in size, limb 5-10 cm. 1., 1- 5-3 '75 cm. br. ; petioles 

 •5-1 "5 cm. 1. Spikes 5 '5-7 '5 cm. 1., 3-4 mm. br. ; peduncles 3-4 cm. 1. ; 

 bracts ^4-^5 mm. br. ; 6-8 about the same level on one side. Berries 

 •8--9mm. 1. 



6. P. talinifolla Kunth torn. cit. 62 (1816); glabrous; leaves 

 elliptical, attenuated to base, and slightly to obtuse apex, decur- 

 rent into very short petiole, leathery-membranous, with 3 or 

 more indistinct nerves on each side ; spikes solitary or 2 or 3, 



