292 Flora of the Malayan Peninsuia. 
limb of bract oblong-rounded with a central pedicel immersed with 
the flower in the rhachis; ovary globose, stigma terminal, minute, 
glabrous. Berry globose, asperulate, its base immersed in the 
rhachis, nearly 1 mm. indiam. 
Matacoa: Batu Tiga, rocks in forest, Derry 80. 
6. PEPEROMIA PELLUCIDA, Kth.in H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 1. 64 (1815) ; 
Kunth Syn. I. 117; Pl. Aeq. II. 53. Annual, erect, quite glabrous, 
about 30 cm. high, ramulose; branches pellucid when dry. Leaves 
alternate, petioled; limb membranous and pellucid when dry, deltoid- 
cordate, subobtusely acuminate, 7-nerved, up to 26 mm. long and 19 
mm. wide; petiole 14:5 mm. long. Peduncle terminal, leaf-opposed., 
nearly as long as the petiole. Spike about twice as long as the leaf, 
filiform membranous when dry, glabrous; limb of bract round, sub- 
sessile at its centre ; anthers rounded, filaments very short. Berry 
globose, mucronate at the apex, with longitudinal verruculose ribs; 
stigma terminal, puberulous. A. Dietr. Sp. Pl. Ed. VI. 1. 164; Mig. 
Syst. Pip. 79 and in Hook Lond. Journ. Bot. IV. 413; C. DC. in 
Prodr. XVI. i. 402; Dahlst. Stud. S. and C. Amerik. Peper. 16, t. 1, 
fig.1. Piper pellucidum, L. Sp. 1.163; J. Hill Veg. Syst. XXVI. t. 
18, fig. 3; Aublet Hist. Pl. Guy. I. 21; Lam. Ill. 82; Vahl Enum. I. 
346; Willd. Sp. PL. I. 163; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 117. 
Naturalized. PrNnana: Common in the town, Curtis 1968. 
Perak: Wray 1769. Trinacanu, Bundi, Rostado. SINGAPORE : 
Deschamps ;.shady places, Kunstler 211.—Distrip. Trop. America, 
West Indies, Trop. Africa, Malayan Archipelago, India (Poona, 
Cooke; Andamans King’s Coll. 11891). 
7. PErpERomia Kortana, C. DC. in Records Bot. Surv. Ind. VI. 
2(1912). Stem erect from a creeping base, densely hirtillous, about 1 
mm, thick when dry. Leaves alternate, petioled; limb densely 
hirtillous, on both surfaces, rounded-obovate, 23 mm. diam. in the 
inferior leaves ; elliptic, subacute at the base, rounded at the top, 
23 mm. long, 14°5 mm. wide, 5-nerved inthe superior leaves ; petiole 
densely hirtillous, 10 mm. long in the inferior, 4 mm. long in the 
superior leaves. Peduncle terminal Spike 27 mm. long, 1 mm. 
thick, glabrous, densiflorous; limb of the bract obovate, subsessile 
at its centre, brown-dotted when dry; anthers rounded; ovary 
emergent, obovate; stigma punctiform, glabrous, inserted obliquely 
and slightly lower than the top of the ovary. 
Panana: Kota Glanggi, Ridley. 
