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A 
of 1700 toises upon the Andes, along with the genera Alstonia, 
Escallonia and Wintera. The greater number, however, are 
found in the temperate regions of those mountains, at a height 
of between 300 and 900 toises. There they adhere sometimes 
to the trunks of trees, along with various species of Epiden- 
drum and Dendrobium, and sometimes to the perpendicular 
faces of rocks which overhang the water. The individuals be- 
longing to the genus Piper are, as this learned traveller adds, 
separated from the Peperomic by this mark, that wherever the 
latter were observed upon the Andes, the former were found to 
be at a greater distance from the limits of perpetual snow, by 
as much as 200 toises. 
Of the genus Peperomia alone, M. De HuMBOLDT enu- 
merates no fewer than 44 species, the most of which are new. 
United with the genus Piper, as it stands in RoEMER and 
Scuutrz’s Syst. Vegei. its species amount to 225, of which 77 
were first discovered by MM. Humsoipr and BonPLaND. 
The present individual is also one found by them on the trunks 
of trees, in moist and uncultivated places, between Caraccas 
and Rio Guayare, at an elevation of 460 toises, flowering 2 
anuary. JACQUIN also states the Caraccas as its native Pp. 
of growth. Introduced into our gardens, according to ¥ 
Haworts, in 1802. : 
It is an elegant plant, beautifully edged and dotted with 
in the sto 
minute: pouch, ma -a two-lobed body, which M. Kun7# 
denominated the plumule, while Mbnincéoed others call it the 
entire embryo. A structure very neatly similar is found in the 
Nympheeacee, concerning whose classification in the Natural 
System the same d'fference of opinion has existed. 
‘Fig. 1. Portion of a spadix with flower. Fig. 2. Back view of a single flow” 
Fig. 3. Pistil. Fig. 4. Stamen. Fig. 5. Berry. Fig. 6. The 
upper part of the pericarp removed. Fig. 7- The same cut three 
ertically.—Ail more or less magnified. The last three figures copied 
Ricuarp. = : : : 
