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PEPEROMIA macutosa. 
Spotted-stalked Peperomia. - 
“DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Orn. PIPERACEA, Humb. et Kunth— 
PIPERITEES, De Cand.—_URTICIS AFFINIS, Juss. 
Gen. Cuar.—Spadix cylindraceus, floribus undique tectus. Stamina duo. 
Stigma indivisum. Bacca monosperma. Caulis herbaceus.—H: umb.. et 
Kunth. 
: Peperomia maculosa ; foliis peltatis cordato-ovatis ‘acutis | albo-venosis, 
_caule “-repente” maculato tenuissime pubescente. : 
: Piper. maculosum, Linn. Sp. ‘Pl. p. 42: —_Winip: Sp. PL. vii. ps 166: Vata, 
- Pp. 4. 
- Peperomia variegata, “ Fl. Peruv. v. is p- 33. t. 58.8 af 
Saururus hederaceus, cauliculis maculosis major, Pium. Am. p. 50. t. 66. 
This. appears, ‘in its native woods, to’ be a: species of a large size, according 
to Piumier creeping and attaching itself to the rocks and neighbouring © 
trees. The stems are full half an inch thick, swelling at the joints ; 
where the leaves are set on, and at the lowermost joints, throwing out 
rather large, fibrous, simple roots ; cylindrical, green, spotted with pur= _ 
plish-brown, and every where clothed with a fine pubescence, which 
seems to have been overlooked by every author except Mr Haworrn. 
From each of the uppermost joints proceeds a leaf of large size, 6 inches 
or more in length, and of a thick subcoriaceous texture, very dark green 
above and shining, with a broad white midrib and white lateral veins — 
curving upwards ; the margin is thin pale, coloured, the extremity acute: 
the underside is of a pale green colour, pubescent, the rib and nerves 
slightly prominent, of the same colour ; the petiole is 6 or 8 inches long, 
thick, pubescent, spotted, grooved on the upper side, with its extremity 
inserted into the underside of the leaf within the ae so as to consti-« 
tute a folium peltatum. 
Spike solitary, pedunculated, from re base of the petiole of the terminal leaf, | | 
having an ovato-lanceolate bractea, from eight inches to a foot in length, 
erect (curved in the drawing for want of room), purplish, cylindrical, 
tapering towards the extremity. a 
Florets much crowded. Scales siliguadene purplish-green. Germens small 
obovate, with a rather long acumen running out above the stigma. Az- 
VOL. IL. 
Enum. Pl. v.i. p. 344.—RoemM. et SCHULTZ, Vv. i. p. 320. —Haw: Succ. Pl. 
