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slender and loosely flowered : bracts oblong-ovate, pointed; pistil 
not immersed in the rachis; stigma apical. 
Leaves orbicular, rarely subacuminate; scapes unbranched 
Filaments s scarcely protruding beyond the bract; berries essentially sessile 
Stigma ses 
Ovary blunt 
THOR PUES CHIDONE 5 is er iin oo eee chess eee cee P. monticola 
TULARE BIN oc oe ore eek ok ed ee P. Painteri 
Be gg ET a er eee ee Oe Ge ana eee P. astyla 
Stigma on a more or less evident style 
Style or stylopodium broadi¥ Conic. ois eo un als P. Parryana 
ie SOT EI ee pa ce eens os P.. tenuimucronata 
Style rather abruptiy cylindric. . os. 2s cco ne ves ce P. campylotropa 
Filaments conspicuously exserted 
Anther cells at length divergent ....... 50.2000 cece ecns ees P. schizandra 
Anther cells not divergent 
Berries flask-shaped, sessile: . 6... 26 ce P. amphoricarpa 
Berries Ovoid, subetinitate.. <5. o5. es el es cs P. gracillima 
Leaves subrhombic-orbicular; scapes unbranched............... P. bracteata 
Leaves orbicular-acuminate; scapes often branched; 
berries sessile 
Berries flask-shaped with tapering style.................. P. schizostachya 
Berries subglobose with abrupt style..................-., P. claytonioides 
Leaves ovate 
Scapes often branched; berries sessile 
Scapes characteristicaily branched . . . 05 6.60 o5.05 5055045. P. sciaphila 
MAny SCADGA SRDPEEENEO coc oe es ea a P. ovato-peltata 
Scapes unbranched; berries stipitate, with slender style.......... P. peltata 
PEPEROMIA MONTICOLA Miquel, Syst. Piper. 71. 1843.—Piper 
(§Peperomia) hydrocotylifolium Martens and Galeotti, Bull. Acad. 
Bruxelles 10:129. 1843.— ?Peperomia umbilicata macrophylla C.DC. 
in DC. Prodr. 16':394. 1869.—Acaulescent; glabrous throughout; 
leaves round, centrally peltate, 3.5-5.5 cm. in diameter; berries 
sessile, ellipsoid; stigma sessile at the apex. 
Southern Cordillera of Mexico, the type from near Tehuacan, Puebl. 
ome 6023, which is also the type of Piper hydrocotylifolium). 
with P. mexicana, this was distinguished and described by its dis- 
coverer, but antedated in publication by another, as was true also of two of 
ALEOTTI’S Mexican o 
Peperomia Painter n. sp.—? Peperomia umbilicata subacuti- 
folia C.DC. in DC. Prodr. 16':394. 1869.—Aspect and general 
