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with a slender flexuous beak; stigma anterior at base of the beak.— 
Fig. 18. 
Through the West Indies (to which the type is ascribed) and reaching - 
Venezuela. 
In the Eastern Sierra Madre of Mexico it is represented by an 
almost entirely glabrescent form, var. calva, n. var., the type of 
which is from Orizaba (Boiteri 1158). 
A Costa Rican form, glabrescent except that the rather large 
leaves are ciliate, is var. ciliifera, n. var., the type from Estrella, 
Cartago (Cooper 5917). 
A glabrate Costa Rican form with filiform peduncle is var. 
filipes, n. var., the type from La Palma (Tonduz 12539).—Fig. 18, 
habit. 
With even the upper face of the coriaceous, abruptly short- 
acuminate leaves puberulent, it is var. cryptocarpa, n. var., the 
type from near the Finca Sepacuite, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala 
(Cook and Griggs 533). 
PEPEROMIA Bakertt C.DC. in Urban, Symbolae Antillanae 
5:296. 1902.—Of the aspect of P. hernandifolia and scarcely 
separable, but with ciliate leaves and more cylindrical slender- 
beaked berries. 
Cuba, the type from Lomas de Taro-Taro, Pinar del Rio (Baker 3833). 
Peperomia peltilimba C.DC., n. sp.—Repent, glabrous, rather 
thick-stemmed; leaves alternate, round-ovate, sharply acuminate, 
peltate toward the rounded base, 3.5-5X4—-5.5 cm.,’ the petiole 
scarcely as long as the blade; spikes paired on bracted stalks, 
relatively thick and short (3X25 mm.); ovary ovoid, obliquely 
beaked, the stigma anterior on the beak. 
Costa Rica, the type from San Ramon (Brenes 14178). 
PEPEROMIA SCUTELLATA C.DC., Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belg. 
30:230. 1891.—Repent, glabrous, rather slender-stemmed; leaves 
alternate, lance-ovate, barely subpeltate at the very base, 3.5 X7-8 
cm., the petiole 4-8 cm. long; spikes paired on a short terminal 
stalk, shorter than the leaves; berries es slender-beaked; 
stigma anterior on the beak. 
Costa Rica, the type from near Division ae 3611). 
