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PEPEROMIA rneana. 
Hoary Peperomia. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA—Nar. Orv. PIPERACE#, Humb. et Kunth. 
Gey. Cuar.—Spadix cylindraceus, floribus undique tectus. Flores herma- 
phroditi, singulus squama suffultus. Stamina duo. Anthere uniloculares. 
Stigma indivisum. Bacca monosperma.—Kunth. 
Peperomia incana; incano-tomentosa, foliis alternis cordato-rotunda- 
tis acutiusculis carnosis petiolatis, inferioribus subpeltatis, spadicibus 
terminalibus subsolitariis longissimis. 
* Piper incanum, Haw. Suppl. Pl. Succ. p. 2.—Linx et Oro, Fl. Berol. v. i. 
p- 17. t. 7. 
Stem erect, a foot or more in height, erect, simple or slightly branched, thick, 
fleshy, very downy. Leaves alternate, rather distant, from two to three 
inches long; thick, fleshy, rotundato-cordate, subacute, downy on both 
obscure oblique lateral nerves, petiolate, the petioles an inch or an inch 
and a half long, thick, fleshy, downy, terete, flattened only above, the 
superior ones inserted into an obtuse short sinus at the base, the lower 
ones inserted just a little within the margin at the base, where the mar- 
gin is slightly protruded, and the leaf is hence, in a measure, peltate. 
from 6 to 8 inches in length, cylindrical, towards the 
extremity: the florets very thickly crowded. Scales 
tate, green placed almost entirely above the scale, small, sub- 
purple, 1-celled. Filament attenuated at the 
Geis aoe 1815. From at cai 
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