146 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
PEPEROMIA MACULOSA (L.) Hook., Exot. Fl. pl. 92. 1825.— 
Piper maculosum L., Sp. Pl. 30. 1753.—Peperomia septuplinervia 
C.DC., Jour. Botany 4:142. 1866.—Peperomia monsterifolia Grise- 
bach, Cat. Pl. Cub. 64. 1866.—Ascending, sparingly hairy, suc- 
culent, the rather thick stem mottled; leaves alternate, elliptic- 
ovate, subcuspidate, peltate near the rounded or truncately sub- 
cordate base, 8-11 X12-17 cm., the mottled petiole 6-15 cm. long; 
spikes solitary or paired at the end, large (6250 mm.), caudately 
tapering; berries subsessile, ovoid, tapering into an equilong beak; 
stigma anterior on the beak. 
Through the Antilles, the type from Haiti (Plumier). 
PEPEROMIA VARIEGATA Ruiz and Pavon, Fl. Peru. 1:33. pl. 52. 
1794.—Aspect of and not considered by Miquer separable from 
the preceding, but glabrous and with broader leaves 12-15 cm. 
long. 
Peru to Demarara, and reported for Costa Rica and Guatemala possibly 
on forms of the preceding; the type from Peru. 
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 
URBANA, ILL. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES I-IV 
Habit illustrations are of natural size; inflorescence or fruit details are 
enlarged 20 diameters. 
PLATE I 
Fic. 1.—Peperomia schizandra, from type. 
Fic. 2.—Peperomia schizostachya, from type. 
Fic. 3.—Peperomia mexicana, from type number, also cotype of Piper 
parvulum. 
Fic. 4.—Peperomia astyla, from type. 
Fic. 5.—Peperomia Painteri, from type. 
Fic. 6.—Peperomia gracillima, from cotype. 
Fic. 7.—Peperomia Parryana, from type. 
PLATE II 
Fic. 8.—Peperomia macrandra ampla, from type. 
Fic. tia eb Tuerckheimii, from type collection. 
Fic. 10.—Peperomia campylotropa, from sheetyin United States National 
Herbarium Cemneuaall as Bourgeau 3020. 
