I42 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
PEPEROMIA ARIFOLIA Miquel, Syst. Piper. 72. 1843.—Shortly 
caulescent, succulent, glabrous; leaves alternate, round-ovate, 
subacute or short-pointed, peltate toward the truncately sub- 
cordate base, 5-6X6-9 cm., the petiole nearly as long; spikes 
terminal, solitary, about 100 mm. long, on nearly equilong pe- 
duncles; berries ovoid; stigma essentially sessile at or very near 
the end. 
A Brazilian species, the type cultivated in Europe; common everywhere 
in conservatories in the nearly acaulescent silver-striped var. argyreia (or 
P. Saundersii); reported, doubtless in cultivation, for Bermuda; and rep- 
resented by a var. acutifolia C.DC., n. var., with acute smaller leaves 3.55.5 
cm., on petioles 7.5 cm. long, cultivated in Switzerland from Costa Rican 
( ?cultivated) material. 
PEPEROMIA PUBERULA J. G. Baker, in Saunders, Ref. Bot. 
5. pl. 302. 1871.—Shortly caulescent, rather succulent, somewhat _ 
velvety; leaves alternate, broadly ovate, subacute or abruptly 
short-pointed, peltate toward the rounded or subcordate base, 
3X4-6X7cm., the petiole of more or less equal length; spikes 
terminal and axillary, 50-100mm. long, on somewhat shorter 
peduncles; berries ebovoid, the subsessile stigma slightly oblique.— 
Fig. 17. 
Guatemala, the type cultivated in England from Alta Vera Paz. 
PEPEROMIA MUELLERI C.DC., Linnaea 37:366. “1871-3.’’— 
Peperomia Bourgeaui C.DC., Linnaea 37:370. “1871-3.’’—Shortly 
caulescent, rather succulent, gray-pilose; leaves alternate, broadly 
ovate, more or less acuminate, peltate toward the subcordate 
base, 4-6 X6-7.5 cm., the petiole slightly shorter; spikes terminal 
and axillary, slender, equaling or surpassing the leaves, the pe- 
duncle shorter than the petiole; berries round-ovoid, obliquely 
short-mucronate, terminated by the stigma. 
Eastern Sierra Madre, Mexico, the type from Orizaba, Vera Cruz (Mueller 
653); that of P. Bourgeaui from the Rio Blanco near Orizaba (Bourgeau 3230). 
PEPEROMIA TECTICOLA C.DC., An. Inst. Fis.-Geogr. Costa 
Rica 9:175. (1898 ?).—Shortly caulescent, rather succulent, loosely 
short-hairy; leaves alternate, ovate or elongate-ovate, somewhat 
acuminate, peltate toward the rounded or shallowly subcordate 
base, 2X4 cm., the petiole about equilong; spikes terminal or 
