894 BENGAL PLANTS. [Peperomia, — 
792. Peperomia Ruiz & Pav. 
Annual or perennial herbs, generally succulent ; leaves opposite 
or whorled, less often alternate, quite entire, pellucid-punctate ; 
stipules 0. Flowers minute, hermaphrodite, sessile or sunk in the 
piety often whorled, erect, bracteate, in terminal or leaf- opposed, 
rely axillary, solitary or fascicled spikes; bracts sessile, some- 
‘nace peltately attached. Perianth 0. Stamens 2; filaments 
very short; anther-cells eiattionuk Carpels formin. 
obtuse or acute or beaked 1-celled ovary; ovule solitary, erect; 
stigma lateral or terminal, usually penicillate. Frwit a minute, 
indehiscent, almost dry berry or nutlet; pericarp thin. Seed 
minute; testa membranous; albumen y: 
Leaves coriaceous, 4-nately whorled, orbicular reflexa. 
Leaves thinly membranous, opposite, ovate-acute ..............-++- pellucida. 
1764. PEPEROMIA REFLEXA A. Dietr.; F. B. I. v. 99. 
Chota Nagpur 
A small, tufted herb, with stoutish, densely branched 
stems. 
1765, Prererromia PELLUCIDA Kunth. 
. Bengal, naturalised. 
A succulent, slender, annual herb, recently introduced, 
but now extremely abundan 
Order CVIII. MYRISTICACES. 
Evergreen trees, often stellate-tomentose. Leaves alternate, 
entire, ie pellucid-dotted; stipules 0. Flowers small, dicecious, 
regular, cymose, fascicled, umbelled, or panicled ; bracteoles pet 
sistent or caducous. Perianth simple, inferior, ges 
deciduous; lobes usually 3, sometimes 2 or 4, connate below: 
valvate in bud. ¢ Stamens monadelphous, 3-18, ie often 
30-45 ; anthers usually sessile, ovate or linear, 2-celled, adnate 
t 
their bases without or with short Badoon ts to the edge of @ | 
peltate, gogrnnd disk ; dehiscence always extrorse ; rudimen 
pis minodes 0, or very rare. Ovary free, sessile ab — 
base of tn Sealed: ovule solitary, basal, erect, anatropous+ 
