Peperomia PIPERACEiE 7 



terminal and axillary, about as long as, sometimes longer than, 

 the leaves, somewhat slender, dense-flowered. — Griseb. op. cit. 167 ; 

 C. DC. in Urb. Symb. Ant. in. 252. 



On trunks of trees ; near Mabe5,s River, 4000 ft., Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 8338. 



Stem succulent, rooting at nodes below, l"5-3 dm. high, 3 mm. br. 

 Leaves 7-10 cm. 1., nearly 3 to nearly 4 cm. br. Spikes to 10 cm. 1., 2 mm. 

 br. (in flower) ; peduncles 1*5 cm. 1. ; bracts '6 mm. 1., -5 mm. br., 4 about 

 the same level on one side. Berries not seen. 



§ 5. Berries sessile, verruculose, ellipsoidal to cylindrical- 

 oblong ; apical appendage consisting of an oblique 

 " shield," produced posteriorly into a long beak, with the 

 stigma subcentral. Leaves alternate. 



A. Leaves more or less decurrent, not peltate. 



7. P. alpina A. Dietr. torn. cit. 185 (1831) ; leaves somewhat 

 leathery, long-stalked, roundish-elliptical, apex rounded or obtuse, 

 base shortly cuneate ; spikes somewhat lax-flowered (in fr.) with 

 acuminate pits of which the edges form a woody network ; style 

 of ovaries oblong, linear-acuminate ; bracts • 75-1 mm. br., 

 round, 2-3 about the same level on one side ; berries with beak 

 of apical appendage curved but not hooked, stout, as long as the 

 berry. — Miq. op. cit. 168 ; Griseb. op. cit. 167 ; Dahlst. op. cit. 58 ; 

 G. DC. in Urb. Symb. Ant. Hi. 257. Piper alpinum Sw. Prodr. 15 

 (1788) & Fl. hid. Occ. 62. Type in Herb. Stockholm. 



In peaty soil or on decaying trunks of trees ; Blue Mts., Swartz ! Blue 

 Mts., McNabl near Morse's Gap, 5000 ft. ; Greenwich, 4500 ft.; Harrisl 

 PI. Jam. 8816, 10,140 (in part). 



Stem creeping below, then ascending to erect, simple or with two 

 branches, 12-25 cm. 1. Leaves 2-3 pinnate principal nerves on each side, 

 the 'younger leaves somewhat puberulous, the lower sometimes opposite, 

 3-5*5 cm. 1., 2'25-4 cm. br. ; stalk 1-3 cm. 1. Spikes, two terminal or 

 solitary in axils, rhachis 3-6 cm. 1., 1-5-2 mm. br. ; peduncles l'5-2'5 

 cm. 1. Berries 1-1 "25 mm. 1., ellipsoidal. » 



8. P. epassieaulis Fawc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. Z. 177(1912); 

 stem thick ; leaves leathery, obovate-elliptical, apex obtuse, 

 sometimes slightly emarginate, base cuneate and passing into 

 and decurrent on the petiole, median nerve prominent below 

 and forming a narrow wing or rib on the petiole ; spikes some- 

 what lax-flowered, in the fruiting stage with elliptical pits of 

 which the edges form a woody network ; style of ovaries 

 lanceolate-acuminate; bracts •5-*75 mm. br., elliptical or round, 

 3-4 about the same level on one side ; berries with beak of 

 apical appendage subulate, curved but not hooked, as long as the 

 berry. — P. obtusifolia Griseb. op. cit. 166 (in part), non A. Dietr. 

 Type in Herb. Mus. Brit, and in Herb. Jam. 



In peat in shady woodland and on decaying trunks of trees ; Macfad- 

 yen ! Blue Mts. McNab ! John Crow Peak, J.P. 1481, Hart ! Morse's Gap, 



