no 



suborbicular, broadest above the middle or below it, 4-9 cm. 

 long, rounded to retuse at the apex, rather long-petioled: in- 

 florescence with a short stout stalk, with usually a single stiffly 

 stout spike less than i dm. long, green, the rachis 5 mm. thick or 

 less, stout-tipped; bracts orbicular, scarcely 0.3 mm. in diameter: 

 anthers about 0.2 mm. in diameter: berries densely crowded, 

 the bodies cylindric-ovoid or cylindric, i mm. long, more or less 

 truncate at the base, the beak slightly shorter than the body, 

 hooked. — Tree trunks, rotten logs, and humus, hammocks, 

 southern peninsular Florida and Florida Keys. — (W. I.) Type 

 from the Ross Hammock, Dade County, Florida. Small and 

 Carter No. 2478, collected November 12, 1906. 



Upon entering any hammock on the Everglade Keys, one of 

 the more peculiar plants to meet one's eye is the above described 

 Peperomia. It not only grows on the trunks and branches of 

 living rough-barked trees, particularly on the live-oak {^uercus 

 virginiana), where it is often intimately tangled, but also on 

 decaying logs. The stems are sometimes greatly elongate and 

 vine-like. Although an epiphyte, plants of this species also 

 grow well under cultivation in the greenhouses of The New 

 York Botanical Garden. In the herbarium, localities addi- 

 tional to that of the type specimen are represented as follows: 



Hammock eastern border of Everglades, A. H. Curtiss No. 

 2460**. 



Hammock, Lemon City, J. H. Simpson No. 571 (1892). 



Snapper Creek hammock, J. K. Small & G. V. Nash No. 48 

 (1901). 



Brickell hammock, J. K. Small & J. J. Carter No. 1443 (1903). 



Scott hammock, J. K. Small & J. J. Carter No. 981 (1903). 



Snapper Creek hammock, E. G. Britton No. 387 (1904). 



Brickell hammock, J. K. Small & G. K. Small No. 48 11 (1913). 



Royal Palm hammock, J. K. Small & E. \V. Small No. 5442 



(1915)- 



Sykes hammock, J- K. Small & C. A. Mosier No. 5501 (191 5). 



Sykes hammock, J. K. Small, C. A. Mosier & E. W. Small No. 

 5649 (1915). 



Nixon-Lewis hammock, J. K. Small & C. A. Mosier No. 

 5892 (1915). 



John K. Small. 



