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According to Powell, this plant is named “O le Afia” 
for perfuming oil. 
ie ees oF Prare LXXIV,, representing Ascarina lanceolata, Hook. f—Fig, 1, a branch, with 
ae towers; 2, male flower; 3, stamen; 4, a branch of the female plaut; 5, young fruit; 6, the same, cut 
Monash; saps Raph see: ; 
Spee eee 2,3, 5, and 6, magnified, and copied from a sketch made by my friend Count Herm, 
by the Samoans, and much esteemed by them 
Orpo LXXXVIII. PIPERACEZA. 
I. Peperomia, Ruiz et Pavon, Prodr. Flor. Pernvy, p.8. Flores 3, dense v. remote amentacei: 
Bractez peltate, breviter y. longiuscule pedicellate, pelta carnosa v. foliacea, persistentes y, deciduz:. 
Stamina 2, lateralia, filamentis teretibus v. subulatis, antheris 2-locularibus, loculis appositis effeetis, 
sursum confluentibus, hine subunilocularibus. Ovarium sessile, ovoideum v. oblongum, aliquande 
foveole rhachos subimmersum, rectum vy. obliquam. Stigma sessile, deciduum, penicillatum, peni- 
cillis longioribus v, exilissimis, aut in apice ovarii recti aut in antico pariete ovarii oblique acuminati 
et tune plerumque minutissimum. Bacca sessilis, fere exsucca. Pericarpium tenue. Semen con- 
forme, testa membranacea v. coriacea, albumine candido farinoso. Embryo minutissimus.—Herbe 
carnose, succolente, inarticulate, aliquando minutissimm, v. suffruticose, erect v. subrepentes 
nasique radicantes, ramos, ramis foltisque alteruis, oppositis v. verticillatis, his pleramque petio- 
Jatis, sueculentis v. raro membranaceis, glabris pubescentibus v. tomentosis, costulatis v, co-nervi- 
venosis exstipulatis, viridibus v, coloratis, non raro pellucido-glandulosis cauleque aliquando odo- 
ratis; amentis pedunculatis axillaribus y. ex axillis foliorum supremorum terminalibus y, opposi- 
tifoliis, longis v, brevibus, rectis v. curvatis, filiformibus v. carnoso-incrassatis, rhachi lmvi v. foveo- 
lata; floribus remotis v. densissime confertis, illis bracteis plerumque foliaceis deciduis, his carnosis 
persistentibus iustructis; baccis insipidis v. acribus.—Micropiper et Peperomia, Miq. Comm, Phy- 
togr, pp. 87 et 89. Tildenia, ejusd. in Diar. Inst. Reg. Nederl. 1842. Dugagelia, Gaudich.? Mi- 
quel, Syst. Pip. p. 63. 
Peperomia is strongly represented in Polynesia. In New Ireland we have P, Seemanniana, Casim. 
DC. in Seem. Journ. vol. iv. p. 164; in New Caledonia, P. Culedonica, Casim, DO. 1.c. p. 135 ; 10 the 
Kermaudee group and New Zealand, 2. Urvilleana, A, Rich.; in Norfolk Island, P. Hndlicheri, Mig. 
(Piper simplex, Endl,), and P. Baweriana, Mig. (Piper ascendens, Endl.) ; in the Society Islands, P, pal- 
lida, Mig. (Piper pallidum, Forst.), P. reflexa, A. Diety. (P. tetraphylla, Hook, et Arn. ; Piper tetraphyllum, 
Forat.), a species also known from the Hawaiian Islands (Barclay! Nuttall! Macrae!) aud N orfoll Island 
(Endlicher’s Piper emulum), and P. rhomboidea, Hook, et Arn. (Piper polymorphum, Soland, Prim, Fl, Ins. 
Pacif. (ined.) p, 206, et in Parkins, Drawings of Tahit. Plants (ined.), t. 8; Piper acwminatum, Forst. Prodr, 
n, 23, non alior, Nomina vernacula Tahitensia, teste Soland., * Hpaimato” et “ Pilhi-papa.”’) . and in the 
Hawaiian or Sandwich group we have P. membranacea, Hook. et Arn.; P. Gawdichaudi, Mig. (P. membra- 
nacea, var. ?); P. Sandwichensis, Mig.; P. insularum, Mig.; P. latifolia, Mig. ; P. hypoleuca, Mig ; P. pa- 
chyphylla, Mig. CP. verticillata, Hook. et Arn.); P. Macraéana, Cas. DC. in Seem. Journ. vol, iv, p. 140; 
P, leptostachya, Mig.; and P. Fernandeziana, Miq. 
1. P. pallida, A. Dictr. Spee. vol. i. p, 153; Migq. Syst. Pip. p. 108; foliis alternis v. oppositis 
oblongo-ellipticis v. obovatis acuminatis glabris 3-5-plinerviis; amentis axillaribus, solitariis filifor- 
mibus, baccis remotis distinctis.—Piper pallidum, Forst. Prodr. n. 94,—Tsland of Taviuni, on rocks 
(Seemann; n, 565). Also collected in Tahiti (Forster! Banks and Solander! Nelson !). 
II. Piper, Linn. Gen. n. 49, Flores ¢ y, polygami. Amenta oppositifolia, axillaria v. termi- 
nalia, Bractez peltatee, inflexo-cucullate y. subconchee‘ormes. Stamina 2-oc; anther 1-2-locu- 
