Peperomia PIPERACEiE 9 



Guava Ridge Road, 1200 ft. ; coast between Portland Point and Rocky 

 Point; Harris \ PL Jam. 8359, 10,184; Belvedere, Hanover, Mrs. Britton, 

 2865 ! Bath, 300 ft. ; G. Nichols ! 



Stem thick, rooting below, erect or decumbent at base, 10-30 cm. 1., to 



5 mm. br. Leaves 3-5 pinnate nerves on each side, one or two lower pairs 

 springing from near the base, 5-15 cm. 1., 2-5-5(-8) cm. br. Spikes 

 solitary, geminate, or 3-paniculate, terminal and in upper axils ; rhachis 

 10-19 cm. 1., 2-2*5 mm. br., common peduncle about 2 cm. 1. ; peduncle 

 (terminal), 1-2 cm. 1. (when solitary), to 5*5 cm. 1. Berries "8 mm. 1., 

 beak ■3-"4 mm. 1. 



11. P. magnoliifolia A. Dietr. torn. cit. 153 (1831); leaves 

 leathery, very variable, roundish-elliptical or elliptical, narrowing 

 abruptly and passing into and decurrent on the petiole or 

 obovate or elliptical-cuneate, sessile, attached on the older 

 branches to a projecting horseshoe-shaped leaf-trace, apex rounded 

 or obtuse ; spikes dense-flowered in close whorls, (in fr.) with 

 ovoid pits not completely touching ; style of ovaries acute ; 

 bracts '4- "5 ram. br., 5-7 on same level on one side; berries 

 with beak of apical appendage half length of berry. — Dahlst. 

 op. cit. 58, t. II. f. 1-5 (in part). P. obtusifolium Griseh. Fl. 

 Br. W. lad. 166 (1859) (in part); C. DC. torn. cit. 254 (in part) 



6 iv. 191, non A. Dietr. P. amplexicaulis var. magnolifolia Griseh. 

 op. cit. 167. Piper magnolijefolium Jacq. Collect. Hi. 210 (1789) 

 & Ic. PL Bar. t. 213. P. obtusifolium Ehret in Trew PL 

 Select, t. 96. 



Honstoun ! Lane ! March 1 — Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Dominica, 

 Martinique, St. Vincent, tropical South America. 



Stevi thick, erect, 4 mm. br. Leaves with three or four indistinct 

 pinnate nerves on each side, one or two lower pairs springing from near 

 the base, 6-13 cm. 1., 4-7 cm. br. Spikes solitary, geminate or paniculate, 

 terminal (solitary in upper axils); rhachis 10-14 cm. 1., 1-5-2 mm. br. ; 

 peduncle 2-3 cm. 1. Berries -7- "8 mm. 1. 



12. P. obtusifolia A. Dietr. torn. cU. 154 (1831); leaves 

 leathery, elliptical, narrowing abruptly and passing into and 

 decurrent on the petiole, apex rounded, sometimes slightly retuse 

 or emarginate ; spikes dense-flowered in close whorls, (in fr.) 

 with spherical pits touching (like a honey-comb) ; bracts 

 •3- '4 mm. br., 6-8 on same level on one side; berries with 

 beak of apical appendage straight with short hook at tip, | length 

 of berry. — DaJilst. op. cit. 64, t. II. f. 10 ; C. DC. torn. cit. 254 (in 

 part) & iv. 190. ISaururus humilis folio &c. Plum. Descr, PL 

 Amer. 53, t. 70 & Ic. ined. iv. 241. Piper obtusifolium 

 L. Sp. PL 30 (1753). (Fig. 1, F.) 



March (fide Dahlst.). — Florida, Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Mar- 

 tinique, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Surinam, Mexico, 

 Nicaragua, Guatemala. 



Stem erect or decumbent, rooting at the nodes at the base, simple or 

 branching. Leaves with 3-5 indistinct pinnate nerves on each side, one 



