Refugium Botanicum. | i August, 18638. 
TAB. 41. 
Natural Order PIPERACE. 
Genus Prergromia, Ruiz & Pavon. 
P. MioRoPHYLLA (H. B. K. Nov. Gen. vol. i. p. 69, tab. 15, fig. 2). 
Caulibus debilibus ramosis subtetragonis ascendentibus, foliis verti- 
cillatis quaternis parvis obovato-oblongis breviter petiolatis, uni- 
nervis, pilosiusculis, pellucido-punctatis, amentis parvis terminali- 
bus pedunculatis, floribus confertis, ovariis urceolatis apice stigma- 
tiferis stylo conspicuo.-—Miquel, Syst. Piper. p. 167. 
A native of the Columbian Andes and Mexico. 
Stems succulent, slender, trailing, branched, leafless in the 
lower part. Branches ascending, four to six inches long, not 
more than half a line in thickness, green tinged with red, a little 
pubescent, subquadrangular, with succulent adventitious rootlets 
from the nodes, which are slightly swollen, and four to six lines 
apart. Leaves in whorls usually of four, casually of five leaves 
each, obovate-oblong, three or four lines long by about half as 
broad, the point blunt, the lower half narrowed gradually into a 
short distinct petiole, the texture succulent, colour a pale green, 
the upper surface convex and the edge deflexed, only the midrib 
visible, both sides conspicuously pellucido-punctate, minutely 
and deciduously hairy, and the edge, especially in the upper part, 
minutely ciliated. Spikes about half an inch long and an eighth 
of an inch in thickness, on peduncles of about their own length 
from the summit of the branches. Flowers minute, crowded, 
about eight in a whorl. Bracts round-peltate, equalling the 
oblong stamens. Ovary flask-shaped, with an entirely terminal 
penicillate stigma and a conspicuous style.—J. G. B. 
A neat dwarf trailing Peperomia, growing freely in a damp 
stove. I received it from Mexico, clinging to an orchid which 
had evidently been obtained from the branch of a tree. It 
thrives in a mixture of turfy loam and Sphagnum.—W. W. S. 
