New Species of Peperomia (Piperaceae) and Dendrocnide (Urticaceae) from Rotuma Island, Pacific Ocean. Pacific Plant Studies 19

Rotuma Island lies in the central Pacific Ocean, at the meeting point of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Its botany had not been explored until the writer made an expedition to it in 1938. Two new species peculiar to it are here announced