1922] TRELEASE—PEPEROMIA 143 
axillary, solitary, 80-120 mm. long, densely flowered, on peduncles 
about as long as the petioles; bracts round-peltate; berries round- 
ellipsoid; stigma oblique. 
Costa Rica, the type from San José (Tonduz 7262, in a roof gutter). 
A form with larger leaves 3-3.5X6-7 cm. and spikes fully 
150 mm. long, is var. muricola, n. var., Costa Rica, the type from 
San Juan (Tonduz 10146, on a wall).—Fig. 16. 
Peperomia Killipi, n. sp.—Shortly caulescent, rather succulent, 
glabrate; leaves alternate, round-ovate, somewhat blunt-attenuate, 
barely subpeltate at the rounded or slightly cordate base, ciliolate, 
3-3-5 cm. long and wide, the petiole about equilong; spikes termi- 
nal or axillary, solitary, 60 mm. long, densely flowered, on elon- 
gated peduncles; bracts round-peltate; berries round-ovoid; stigma 
oblique. 
Panama, the type from Alhajuela, on the Chagres River (Killip 3218). 
CORDULATIFORMES 
Moderately large, repent or ascending, rooting from some 
nodes; leaves in part barely subpeltate at the very base, alternate; 
spikes solitary, terminal or opposite the leaves, closely flowered; 
bracts orbicular; pistils not immersed in the rachis; stigma 
apical. 
Glabrous; berries sessile 
pres TRCUGr thick. 2 ee P. cordula 
Spikes scarcely cium, Gack P. cordulatiformis 
Somewhat hairy; berries SEER is cs os ve ee ve P. podocarpa 
PEPEROMIA CoRDULATA C.DC., Jour. Botany 4:137. 1866.— 
Ascending, glabrous, slender; leaves alternate, round-ovate or 
ovate, subacute, obscurely subpeltate at the subcordate base, 
5-5 X7 cm., the petiole about 1 cm. long; spikes terminal, solitary, 
150mm. long; berries ovoid-acute; stigma oblique. 
Panama, the type (Fendler 265) from an unrecorded locality. 
Peperomia cordulatiformis, n. sp.—Ascending, glabrous, rather 
succulent; leaves alternate, round-ovate, bluntly short-acuminate, 
obscurely subpeltate at the cordate base, 3.5X5-5xX6cm., the 
petiole about 1 cm. long; spikes opposite the leaves, solitary, 
