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 DETERMINATIONS OF CUBAN PIPERACEAE 



By C. F. Baker 



During the past two years a large number of specimens of Piper- 

 aceae have been distributed from the herbarium of the Estacion 

 Central Agronomica de Cuba. These were collected in the 

 Provinces of Habana and Pinar del Rio by employees of the Station 

 and by Mr. H. A. Van Hermann. In some instances the names 

 originally placed on the specimens were incorrect, and in many 

 cases no specific name was given. Determinations of these 

 specimens have largely been furnished by Dr. I. Urban and by 

 Prof. C. de Candolle, and to these gentlemen acknowledgments 

 are due. I have also compared all of them with material in the 

 Sauvalle-Wright collection and with some material received in 

 exchange. It will be of interest and importance to all who have 

 received the specimens to have access also to these combined 

 notes. 

 Peperomia rotundifolia Kth. 



Rangel, Prov. Pinar del Rio (^^/j). This is exactly equiva- 

 lent to Wright's no. 5^/, labelled ninmmdarifolia by him, but in 

 Symbol. Antill. 3 : 228, called rotundifolia Kth. 

 Peperomia sp. nov. 



Mountains above Taco-Taco {jSjjy 

 Peperomia alata R. & P. 



Santa Barbara, near Bejucal (jj82). Dr. Urban has referred this 

 to P. glabella A. Dietr. These specimens are, however, equiva- 

 lent to our specimens of Wright's no. joj, which was questionably 

 labelled P. pterocaidis Miq. by Wright, and in the Symbol. An- 

 till. 3 : 241, referred to P. alata R, & P. 

 Piper aduncum L. 



As determined by de Candolle, it appears that none of the 

 many western Cuba specimens sent out under this name by us 

 and by others belong here. We have specimens of true adun- 

 cum only from eastern Cuba (Eggers no. 4.6^4). All of our 

 Western Cuba specimens issued as this belong to P. elongatum 

 var, Ossanunt. 



