1922] TRELEASE—PEPEROMIA 141 
TUERCKHEIMIEAE 
Diminutive, subacaulescent from a short rhizome, sparsely 
villous; leaves peltate toward the base; peduncles unbranched; 
spikes filiform, loosely flowered; bracts round-ovate, scarcely 
pointed; pistil not immersed in the rachis; stigma apical. 
ERO VOS OUR SHURE coo ea ks ve eee ceed P. Tuerckheimii 
PEPEROMIA TUERCKHEIMII C.DC., Ann. Conserv. and Jard. 
Bot. Genéve 2:279. 1898.—Nearly acaulescent, small, dingy- 
villous; leaves alternate, ovate, acute, peltate toward the base, 
2X2.5 cm. with equilong petiole; spikes axillary, filiform, short 
(20-40 mm.); berries ovoid, subacute; stigma apical.—Fig. 9. 
Guatemala, the type from Pansamala (von Tuerckheim 433). 
FUGACES 
Diminutive, caulescent, slightly pubescent; leaves peltate 
toward the base; peduncles unbranched; spikes filiform; pistil 
not immersed in the rachis; stigma subapical. 
Amaven ovate; spikes tighestent: ou). oo. eo eek eee acces P. fugax 
PEPEROMIA FUGAX' Liebmann, in C.DC.; Linnaea 37:370. 
“1871-3.”—Shortly caulescent (3 cm. high), locally hairy; leaves 
alternate, ovate, acute, peltate toward the base, ciliolate, scarcely 
10X13 mm., on an even shorter hairy petiole; spikes axillary; 
ovary ovoid; stigma suboblique. 
Eastern Sierra Madre, Mexico, the type from Mirador, Vera Cruz (Lieb- 
nn). 
ARIFOLIAE 
Moderately large, with a usually evident thick erect stem from 
a rhizome; leaves peltate below the middle; peduncles unbranched; 
spikes moderately slender and closely flowered; bracts orbicular; 
pistil not immersed in the rachis; stigma subapical. 
REO ee P. arifolia 
Pubescent 
Spikes rather thick 
Stigma obliquely subsessile. 0... . i. boc h kone eat 4+ P. puberula 
Stigma Ol a short Stvie. 2066 kos ie ce se eee P. Muelleri 
spikes scarcely titd. thick... 654... sa es ee P. tecticola 
Suikes 4 wh Sek 8 ee a. P Killipi 
