"214 Plants Collected in Paraguay. 



PIPERACEJE. 



Named by M. Casimir DeCandolIe. 



Piper fiilvescenSj C. D.C., ined. 



Asuncion (160). June. 



A rather succulent, much branched suffruteseent plant, growing- 

 in large clumps in swampy places. Stem glabrous, angular, 1-2 m. 

 high. The cylindrical spikes are numerous, 5 to 10 cm. long. 

 Flowers white. Leaves succulent, alternate, broadly cordate-ovate, 

 abruptly acute at the apex, palmately veined, the blades some of 

 them 20 cm. long and nearly as broad ; petioles 1-5 cm. long. 



Piper Gaudicliaudianiiiii, Kimth.^ D.C. Prod., xvi, pt. 1, 277. 



Asuncion (705). May. 



A shrub 3-4 m. high, with greenish, downy, brittle stems, swollen 

 at the nodes. Leaves minutely pellucid-punctate, lanceolate, obtusely 

 acuminate, rough on the upper surface, 10-12 cm. long and 4 or 5 

 cm. broad, on short thick petioles. The lateral nerves, 3-5 on a 

 side, arise from the midrib, sunken above and downy and prominent 

 beneath. The rat-tail spikes are 8-10 cm. in length. Flowers 

 androgynous, the staminate and pistillate mixed in various ways 

 on the same spike. Woods at Yilla Morra near Asunciosi. 



Piper medium^ .Jacq., Icon. Rar., i, 2, t. 8. 



Asuncion (692). May. 



Much like the preceding species in appearance, but differs m 

 having broad elliptical leaves, which are 5-7 nerved from the base, 

 10-12 cm. long, 6 or 7 cm. broad, and glabrous on both sides. 

 Spikes thicker. In thickets with no 705. 



i'eperoiiiia Barbarana, C. D.C, Mem. Soe. Pbjs., xxvii, 1. 11. 



Caballero (393). January. 



A small, branching, succulent plant, 15-25 cm. high. Spikes of 

 minute flowers 10-12 cm. long. Growing in damp woods. 



Peperomia nummularisefolia, H. B. K., Nov. Gfen., i, 66. 



Caballero (392). January. 



A delicate vine, climbing by rootlets upon old trees. Leaves 

 small, orbicular, 5 mm. in diameter, diaphanous. Flowers in slen- 

 der spikes. 



