I40 BOTANICAL GAZETTE _ [FEBRUARY 
unbranched; spikes filiform, loosely flowered; bracts ovate, 
pointed; pistil not immersed in the rachis; stigma apical. 
Leaves ovate-oblonilz, style slender... 6c 0. oes oe ee eis P. mexicana 
PEPEROMIA MEXICANA (Miq.) Miquel, Syst. Piper. 75. 1843.— 
Tildenia mexicana Miquel, Diar. Inst. Reg. Nederl. 83. 1842.— 
Piper (§Peperomia) parvulum Martens and Galeotti, Bull. Acad. 
Roy. Bruxelles 10:130. 1843.—Peperomia Galeottiana Hooker, 
Icon. Plant. 4. pl. 327.—Essentially acaulescent, from a short 
rhizome, very small, glabrous throughout; leaves ovate and obtuse 
or characteristically lance-ovate or elliptic-ovate and attenuate, 
peltate extremely close to the base, 812-10 X 25-30 mm.; spikes 
solitary at end of filiform scapes twice as long as the petioles; 
berries oblong, pointed; stigma apical.—Fig. 3. 
astern Sierra Madre of Mexico, the type from Mirador, Vera Cruz 
Peres 7111, which is also the type of Piper parvulum). 
MACRANDRAE 
Moderately large, subacaulescent from a short branching 
rhizome, glabrous; leaves peltate below the middle; scapes 
unbranched; spikes loosely flowered; bracts ovate, pointed; 
pistil not immersed in the rachis, stigma apical. 
Leaves elongated-ovate; berries oblong................0.005: P. macrandra 
PEPEROMIA MACRANDRA C.DC., Ann. Conserv. and Jard. Bot. 
Genéve 2:276. 1898.—Essentially acaulescent, from a short thick 
polycephalous rhizome, glabrous throughout; leaves ovate, acum- 
inate, peltate toward the base, 2.5 4-4.57cm.; spikes solitary 
at end of scapes rather surpassing the petioles; filaments exserted; 
berries ellipsoid-oblong, (teratologically ?) gradually tapering into 
an equilong style; stigma apical. 
Southern Cordillera, Mexico, the type from San Felipe, Oax. (Prine 
4654). 
A large form, presumably from the same geographic region, 
with round-ovate leaves as much as 8X10 cm. and shorter beak 
on the fruit, is var. ampla, n. var. 
Type, without other data, occurring in the United States National Her- 
barium as Pringle 13282.—Fig. 8. 
