Piper phytolaccifolium Opiz

A glandular-granular shrub, 1-2 m. tall, glabrous or obscurely and transiently puberulent; twigs rather slender; leaves lance-or oblong-elliptic, 3-6 cm. wide X 10-13 cm. long, or occasionally up to 8 X 19 cm., apex acuminate, base acute to cuneate, mostly equilateral, glandular-dotted, often strongly so, pinnately nerved throughout or some leaves from below the upper third, the nerves 4, or in large leaves 5-6 on each side, mostly scarcely ciliate; petiole 5-10 mm. long, vaginate at the base; spikes 5 mm. thick X 2-4 cm. long; peduncle 5-20 mm. long, glabrate or very sparsely hirtellous; bracts triangular-or rounded-subpeltate, marginally fringed; fruit globose, stigmas 3, small, on a short subulate style.