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C. DC. in TJrb. St/mh. Ant. in. 167. P. medium Jacq. Collect. 

 i 141 (1786) <fe Ic. Bar. i. 2, <. 8 ; C. DC. torn. cit. 165 & op. cit. 

 iv. 184. P. Bertei'oanum C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvL pt. 1, 249 

 (1869). P. unguiculatum C. DC. torn. cit. 168 non Buiz & 

 Pav. P. Rinhardianum C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 249 & 

 in TJrh. Symh. Ant. Hi. 169. Piper longum arboreum »fec. Sloane 

 Cat. 44 & Hist. i. 134, t. 87, /. 1. Piper frutescens diffusum &c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 121 ; Enckea Amalago Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 

 169 (1859) (in part). Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



"Cope's Plantation " Sloane Herb. ii. 70, 80 ! Browne in Herb. Linn. I 

 Plukenet in Herb. Sloane xc. 105, ci. 109 ! Wright ! Broughton ! moun- 

 tains, Sivartz ! Caley ! Bertero ; Macfadyen ! Distin I Westmoreland Mts. 

 and near Holland Bay, Purdicl Wilson; Priwl March; Newcastle, J.P. 

 1432, 1437, Hart ! J.P. 2111, Morris ! Toms River, Thompson ! Hope 

 Tavern, 600 ft. ; Campbell ! Robertsfield ; Yallahs Valley, Blue Mts., 2500 

 ft. ; Green River, 3500 ft. ; Hope Mines, 750 ft. ; road to Guava Ridge, 

 1500 ft.; Stanmore Hill, 2200 ft.; Harrisl Fl. Jam. 6505, 6590, 8049, 

 8342, 8353, 8354, 9972 ; Millspaugh.—\Y . Indies, tropical America to Peru, 

 Paraguay, Argentina. 



Shrub 6-16 ft., or small tree 20 ft. ; branches glabrate or birtellous. 

 Leaves variable in form and indumentum, ovate-elliptical, elliptical, 

 oblong-ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, rounded or acute at base, glabrous 

 on upper surface, glabrous, or puberulous on nerves underneath, with very 

 numerous pellucid dots, 5-14 cm. 1., 2-7 cm. br. ; stalks puberulous, 

 hirtellous, or glabrate, -5-1 cm. 1. Spikes dense-flowered and shorter than 

 the leaf, afterwards lax and as long or longer than the leaf ; peduncle 

 glabrous, puberulous or hirtellous, as long as, or twice as long as the 

 petiole. 



De CandoUe separates P. medium Jacq. from P. Amalago L. by the 

 presence of hairs on the branches, leaves, and bracts of the former, but we 

 cannot find that this character is constant. The forms named P. medium 

 have generally a broader leaf and are more or less puberulous. 



We have also included Jamaican specimens distributed as P. unguicu- 

 latum, Ruiz & Pav. They do not correspond with the specimen from 

 Ruiz & Pavon in Herb. Mus. Brit., in Avhich the berries are fleshy and 

 much crowded. 



Var. variifolia ; leaves unequally 3-lobed, lateral lobes very 

 short, median long linear-acuminate. — P. panduratum C. DC. in 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 250 (1869). P. subpanduriforme C. DC. 

 in Urh. Symh. Ant. Hi. 170 (1902). Enckea Amalago var. 

 variifolia Griseb. loc. cit. (1859). 

 Fairfield, Wullschlaegel. 



2. P. Wullsehlaegelii C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 249 

 (1869) ; leaves subovate- lanceolate, at base acute ; spikes nearly 

 twice as long as the leaf. — C. DC. in Urh. Symh. Ant. Hi. 168. 



St. Thomas-in-East, Wilson ; between Fairfield and Nazareth, Wull- 

 schlaegel. 



Shrub. Branches glabrous. Leaves with minute pellucid dots, apex 

 attenuate-acuminate, glabrous on both sides; limb 6 cm. 1., 2 cm. br. ; 

 stalk glabrous, 4 mm. 1. Peduncle glabrous, a little longer than the leaf- 

 stalk. 



