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characters of the preceding; leaves 1.5—2 cm. in diameter; berries 
globose; stigma sessile at the apex.—Fig. 5. 
Table-land and adjacent Cordillera of Mexico, the type from Ixmiquilpan, 
Hidalgo (Rose, Painter, and Rose 8966). 
Peperomia astyla, n. sp.—Aspect of the preceding; leaves 
1.5-2.5 cm. in diameter, sometimes blunt-acuminate; ovary ovoid- 
flask-shaped, subacute; stigma apical.—Fig. 4. 
Western Sierra Madre of Mexico, the type from Lake Patzcuaro, Mich- 
oacan (Pringle 4124). 
Peperomia Parryana, n. sp.—Aspect of the preceding but the 
scapes sometimes 20 cm. long; ovary round-ovoid, tapering into 
a short broadly conic disk or style; stigma apical.—Fig. 7. 
Eastern Sierra Madre and adjacent table-land of Mexico, the type from 
about San Luis Potosi, S.L.P. (Parry and Palmer 802). 
With more filiform spikes and larger broadly conic style, it is 
var. borealis, n. var. 
Type from La Silla, Monterrey, N.L. (Pringle 3018). 
Peperomia tenuimucronata, n. sp.—Aspect of the preceding 
species; ovary flask-shaped, slenderly attenuate; stigma apical.— 
ig. 12. 
Western Sierra Madre of Mexico, and Cape region of Baja California, the 
type from near Santa Teresa, Tepic (Rose 3432). : 
PEPEROMIA CAMPYLOTROPA Hill, Ann. Botany 21:156. 1907.— 
Aspect of the preceding species and taken as typical of the group 
which they constitute; leaves 1.5—3.5 cm. in diameter; berries 
round-ovoid, with a short cylindric style; stigma apical.—Fig. 10. 
Mexican table-land and adjacent mountains; taken to be P. umbilicaia 
HBK. (not Ruiz and Pavon), the type of which was from Santa Rosa de la 
Sierra (Humboldt). 
Peperomia schizandra, n. sp.—Aspect of the preceding; leaves 
4-5.5 cm. in diameter; stamens somewhat exserted, their anther 
cells at length widely spreading; berries ovoid, somewhat acumi- 
nately pointed; stigma apical.—Fig. 1. 
Western Sierra Madre of Mexico, the type from Bolafios, Jal. (Rose 2883). 
