Peperomia flexinervia Yunck.

A repent, succulent, terrestrial, essentially glabrous herb; stem creeping, 3 mm. thick when dry, rooting at the nodes, "densely pink-spotted," internodes 6-10 cm. or more long; leaves alter-nate, round-ovate, apex attenuately sharp-acumi-nate, base rounded to cordate, peltate within 15 mm. of the margin, rather prominently 7-to 9-nerved from the petiole, the lateral nerves strongly curving toward the apex, the innermost pair slightly coalescent with the midrib which is faintly branched upward, 7-9 cm. wide X 12-15 cm. long, g l a brou s, yellow-glandular-dotted, densely ciliate, drying firm, subopaque, finely pellucid-dotted; petiole up to 16 cm. or more