76 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Pilea 



32. P. depressa B/«me Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. it. 46 (1856); 

 dioecious (monoecious ?), creeping ; leaves small, broadly obovate- 

 spathulate, sometimes roundish, very obtuse, slightly crenate in 

 the upper half, glabrous on both sides or puberulous or sparsely 

 pilose, margin ciliolate, 3-nerved ; stipules roundish ; cymes 

 small, male subsessile, female pedunculate, peduncle shorter or 

 longer than the petiole. — Griseb. op. cit. 158 ; Wedd. in DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 159. TJrtica depressa Sic. in Vet. RandL 

 Stockh. via. 64 (1787) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 303. (PI. 3, f. 19.) 



In damp shady places, amongst grass by the side of cultivated ground ; 

 Liguanea, Broughton ! Swartz ! Yallahs Valley, Harris ! Windsor Lodge, 

 Blue Mts., 1400 ft., Jekyll ! Fl. Jam. 7706, 8433. 



Stems of indefinite length, to 2*5 dm., puberulous; internodes more 

 or less elongated. Leaves glaucescent underneath, 5-12 mm. 1., 4-9 mm. 

 br. ; nerves generally not much more than half as long as limb ; cystoliths 

 fusiform and linear, crowded on lower surface, only along margin on upper 

 surface ; petiole 2-5 mm. 1., puberulous. Stipules to 2 mm. 1. Cymes 

 consisting of a single cluster. Male flowers pedicellate ; perianth (inch 

 appendages) 2-5 mm. 1., puberulous, segments with a triangular dorsal 

 appendage with enlarged base as long as the segment (1.5 mm. 1.). Female 

 flowers pedicellate. Achcne obliquely roundish, scarcely -5 mm. 1., pro- 

 jecting by about half beyond larger perianth-segment. There is a small- 

 leaved variety in Cuba (var. microphylla Griseb. Cat. 60, Wright, 1678, 

 1682, 2237). 



33. P. potundata Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 158 (1869) ; mona^- 

 cious, creeping ; leaves small, roundish or obovate, with a few small 

 crenatures in the upper half, glabrous on both sides or with a 

 few pellucid hairs on the upper surface, 3-nerved; stipulas 

 rounded ; cymes unisexual, consisting of a single cluster, peduncles 

 longer than the petiole. — Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 1, 156. 

 (PI. 3, f. 20.) 



In crevices of rocks amongst decaying leaves in woodland ; Wilso7i I 

 Wullschlaegel ; Marshall's Pen, near Mandeville, Harris <& Britton ! Fl. 

 Jam. 10,603. 



" Habit of a small Peperomia " (Grisebach). Stem 3-10 cm. 1., at length 

 ascending, glabrous, lower nodes leafless and rooting. Leaves 1-2 cm. 1. 

 and nearly as broad ; cystoliths fusiform and linear. Cymes from the 

 upper axils, 5 mm. br. ; male peduncle much longer than the leaf, female 

 a little longer than the petiole. Male flowers stalked, pedicel 1 mm. 1. ; 

 perianth more than 2 mm. 1., brown-spotted near base, and on dorsal 

 appendages and below them; appendages about "5 mm. 1., linear. Achenc 

 stalked, nearly 2 mm. 1., roundish-ovate, muriculate, with a narrow 

 margin, median perianth-segment as long as the achene, dorsal appendage 

 large and conspicuous, nearly level with the apex, lateral segments about 

 1-2 mm. 1. 



34. P. repens Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xviii. 220 (1851) ; 

 monoecious, creeping ; leaves elliptical-round or obovate, obtuse, 

 base broadly cuneate or rounded, crenate or crenate-serrate in 

 the upper half, glabrous on the upper surface, pubescent on the 

 nerves beneath, 3-nerved ; stipules broadly ovate, persistent ; 

 cymes small, dense-flowered, androgynous, peduncle filiform, 



