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3. PEPEROMIA PoRTULACOIDES, A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. Ed. VI. I. 172 
(1831). Herb: succulent, quite glabrous; branches erect from a 
creeping stem, up to 6 mm. thick, flattened when dry. Leaves oppo- 
site or the upper ones ternate-quaternate, petioled ; limbmembranous 
when dry, pellucid-dotted, obovate or elliptic-rhomboid, acute at the 
base, rounded at the top, 3-nerved ; 26—40 mm. long and up to 26mm. 
wide; petiole5—12mm.Jong. Peduncles axillary and terminal, 3—4 
em. long. Spikes up to 5 cm. long, filiform when dry; limb of bract 
round with a very short central pedicel; anthers subglobose ; ovary 
turbinate, emergent; stigma terminal, punctiform, puberulous. Miq. 
Syst. Pip. 130 and in Hook. Lond. Journ Bot. V. 550; C, DC. in 
Prodr. XVI. i. 443; Wight Ic. t. 1922; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 98. 
P. Candolleana, Miq. Syst. Pip. 130. Piper portulacoides, Lam. Il. 
82; Vahl. Enum. I. 350. P. Trifolium Herb. Willd. n. 737. 
SeLancor: rocks at Batu caves, Ridley.—Distris. India (Tra- 
vancore mountains, Courtallum), Bourbon, Mauritius. . 
4, Peperomia Maxwe Luana, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. 
VI. 1. (1912). Stem decumbent. rooting at the nodes ; spiciferous 
branches erect, glabrous, nearly 1mm. thick when dry. Leaves alter- 
nate, moderately long petioled; limb subcoriaceous and fuscescent 
when dry, elliptic, obtuse at the top, cuneate at the base, 3-nerved, 
glabrous on both surfaces and very minutely ciliate at the margins 
near the summit, up to 40 mm. long and 20 mm. wide; petiole 
glabrous, 5 mm. long. Peduncles terminal and axillary, glabrous, 
8—10°5 mm. long. Spikes glabrous, up to 5 em. long, little less than 
1mm. thick, densiflorous ; limb of bract orbicular, 0°5 mm. in diam., 
subsessile at its centre; ovary emergent, obovate; stigma glabrous, 
obliquely inserted slightly lower than the top of the ovary ; bract 
and ovary reddish-punctulate when dry. 
PERAK: Maxwell’s hill, Ridley 5481. 
5. PEPEROMIA MALACCENSIS, Ridley in Kew Bull. (1895) 185, ea 
©. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 2. Stems prostrate, succulent, 
glabrous. subangulose, rooting from the nodes, little more than 1 mm. 
thick when dry. Leaves alternate, moderately long petioled, glabrous ; 
limb dark green or cupreo-tuscous when living, fuscescent and 
membranous when dry, rounded-ovate, the b se not deeply cordate, 
the summit obtuse, 5-nerved, 29 mm. Iong and up to 31 mm. wide; 
petiole 12°5 mm. long. Peduwncles terminal, nearly as long as the 
petiole, glabrous. Spikes 38 mm. long when flowering, glabrous ; 
