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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Peperomia punctulatissima Trclease 



A glabrous black-punctulate assurgent herb ; leaves alternate, 

 lance-elliptic to broadly elliptic, equally subobtuse at both ends 

 or the narrow end bluntl}' suliacuminate, moderate (2-2.5X4^6 

 cm.), multiple-nerved, the branches of the midrib 3X2 from near 

 the base; petiole 5-10 mm. long; spikes terminal and axillary, 

 filiform (1X^0 imii.), loosely subverticillately flowered; pe- 

 duncle very short (5 nmi.) ; bracts round-peltate, black; ovary 

 ovoid; stigma obliquely anterior. 



Cataracts of the Bopi River, at 3,000 feet, H. H. Rushy {no. 

 592). Type specimen in Trelease herbarium. 



Peperomia canaminana Trelease 



A moderately small succulent glabrous spreading herb, dry- 

 ing gray-green: stem moderate (2-4 mm.), drying very angular, 

 glossy; leaves 3 or commonly 4 at a node, rhombic-elliptic or 

 obovate, acute or obscurely blunt-acuminate or very obtuse, cune- 

 ate, rather small (1.2-1.5 X 2.5-3.5, or 2 X 4-5.5 cm.), coriaceous, 

 sulcately 3- or 5-nerved, more or less revolute, impressed-punc- 

 tulate above; petiole very short (1-2 mm.), deeply channeled; 

 inflorescence unknown. 



Canamina, at 4,000 feet, 0. E. White {nos. 282, 513 and 515). 

 Type specimen in Trelease herbarium. 



Artocarpaceae 



Pseudolmedia hirtellaefolia 



Hirsute with coarse white and glistening or ferruginous 

 spreading or somewhat appressed hairs, some of them glandular. 

 Branchlets mostlj' slender, erect or ascending, reddish gray, 

 coarsely angled, papillose with the bases of fallen hairs. Stip- 

 ules about i cm. long, mostly equilateral or nearly so, ovate, 

 acute, concave, thicldsh, densely hirsute. Petioles about 5 mm. 

 long, stout. Blades to 2 dm. by 8 cm., ovate with rounded 

 or blunt and inaequilateral base, the summit very abruptly 

 contracted into an obtuse acumination; entire, thickish and 

 rigid, above glabrous and slightly shining, the midrib and 

 secondaries lightly channeled, the venation very finely and 

 strongly reticulate, beneath more or less pilose, all the venation 

 sharply prominent, the secondaries about 14 to 16 on each side, 

 somewhat decurrent on the midrib, widely spreading, falcate. 



