I44 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
filiform, scarcely 50mm. long; berries round-ovoid; stigma 
oblique.—Fig. 19. 
Panama, the type from Mamei Hill in the Canal Zone (Pittier 3806). 
PEPEROMIA PoDOCARPA C.DC., An. Inst. Fis.-Geogr. Costa 
Rica 9:175. (1898?).—Repent, more or less pilose, delicate, the 
stem scarcely over 1 mm. thick; leaves alternate, broadly ovate, 
cuspidate, peltate near the rounded base, 4X6 mm., the petiole 
shorter than the blade; spikes paired on short axillary or terminal 
stalks, very slender and short (0.515 mm.) and short-peduncled; 
berries oblong-ellipsoid, slender-stipitate, obtuse. 
Costa Rica, the type from El General (Pittier 10595). 
HERNANDIFOLIAE? 
Rather large, repent and rooting from the nodes; leaves 
variously peltate, alternate; spikes solitary, or paired on a common 
stalk, closely flowered; bracts orbicular; pistils sessile, immersed 
in ovoid pits in the rachis, beaked, the stigma at base of the beak 
and exposed at the level of the rachis; the glutinous be: -ies 
finally broken loose and extruded at right angles to the contracting 
rachis. 
Usually puberulous, berries subovoid...........6eces sevens r, Mahi 2. 88; 
Leaves ciliate; berries COnMONC «oc. hs sc eee ee rit 
Glabrous 
Leaves rOund-OVWENE sr ce ee eer ee Oe P. peltilimba 
Leaves lance-ovate, barely subpeltate.. .......6..00- cesses P. scutellata 
PEPEROMIA HERNANDIFOLIA (Vahl) A. Dietr., Sp. 1:157. 1831.— 
Piper hernandifolium Vahl, Enum. 1:344. 1804.—Peperomia Pon-_ 
thieui Miq., Syst. Piper. 186. 1843.—Repent, somewhat succulent, 
usually puberulous, the stem 2mm. thick with elongated inter- 
nodes; leaves alternate, broadly ovate, somewhat obliquely 
acuminate, rounded at base or subcordate, peltate below the 
middle, 4-5 X6-8 or even 8X12 cm., the petiole 4-10 cm. long; 
spikes 1 or 2 at end of an axillary 1-bracted stalk 3-4 cm. long, 
_ 30-50 mm. long with an equilong peduncle; berries oblong-ovoid, 
2The Antillean P. distachya, representative of a belated group of species, some- 
times has leaves barely subpeltate. 
