152 HilL — A Revision of the Geophilous Species of Peperomia. 
P. macrorhiza, Kunth in H. B. and K.,Nov. Gen., v. 1, p. 72. Dahlst., 
l.c., p.30. 
Peru. Inter Coxamarca et Cerro de Centurcagua, alt. i,8co m. 
(Herb. Berol.). 
The specimen is too meagre to identify ; the leaves are small, and the 
bulb is rather irregular in outline ; the inflorescence is immature. 
P 0 scutellaefolia, R. and P., FI. Per,, i, p. 29, Dahlst., 1 . c., p. 31. 
Peru. In collibus ad Atiquipa. 
if C. Campylotropae. 
P. pedicellata, Dahlst. (descr. emend.). 
Tuber hypogaeum, parvum, flavum, circa 5 mm. latum, 3 mm. altum, 
radicibus fibrosis instructum prope apicem ortis. Caulis subnullus. Folia 
viridia, pauca, in rosulam basalem disposita ; petiolus 6-7 cm. longus ; 
lamina ovata vel orbiculari-ovata 2*5~3 cm. longa, 2 cm. lata, basi leviter 
cordata, apice acuta vel + acuminata, membranacea, septemnervia, prope 
basin peltata. Amenta valde laxa, pedunculis tenuibus petiolis longio- 
ribus. Bractea ovato-lanceolata, + acuminata, circa 1 mm. longa. Stamina 
filamentis instructa. Bacca oblongo-cylindrica, fulva, subtiiiter reticulata, 
longissime stipitata, stipite baccam ipsam + aequante, circa *8—9 mm. 
longa, *35 mm. lata, apice appendice conico-cylindrico praedita. 
P. pedicellata , Dahlst., 1 . c., p. 35, Tab. i, Fig. 13. Hill, 1 . c., p. 408, 
PI. XXX, Fig. 32, &c. 
Guatemala. Santa Rosa ; Dept. Santa Rosa, 3,000 ft., J. Donnel 
Smith , no. 3829 (Herb. Kevv). 1 
P. mexicana, Miq. (descr. emend.). 
Tuber hypogaeum, prim urn parvum, globosum, demum saepius basi 
lobatum, apice rhizoma exiguurn formans, prope apicem radicibus fibrosis 
instructum. Caulis brevissimus, tuberosus. Folia viridia, in rosulam 
congesta ; petiolus 1*5-2 cm. longus; lamina ovata, vel ovato-oblonga, 
acuminata *5-2*5 cm. longa, 4 mm.-i cm. lata, subtrinervia, in sicco 
membranacea. Amenta 4-5 cm. longa, ± laxiflora, pedunculis tenuibus 
circa 4-5 cm. longis. Bractea ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, ± acuminata, circa 
1 mm. longa. Stamina filamentis instructa. Bacca cylindrica, fulva, 
circa 1 mm. longa, *3~*4 mm. lata, subtiiiter reticulata, breviter stipitata, 
stylo cylindrico dimidium baccae aequante apice stigmate capitellato 
terminato. 
P. mexicana , Miq., Syst. Pip., p. 75, et in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., 1846, 
p. 12, Tab. 6. C. DC., in DC. Prodr., XVI, i, p. 394. Dahlst., 1 . c., p. 34, 
Tab. i, Fig. 12. A. W. Hill in Ann. Bot. xx, 1906, p. 411, PI. XXX, Figs. 
41 and 42. 
1 Not in Herb. DC. ; cf. Dahlst., 1. c. 
