ANNOTATIONES IN PIPERACEAS. 559 



folio duplo breviore glabro subconfertifloro, cyathis trans- 

 verse fissis, labio exteriore concavato, baccis depressis, 

 stigmatibus 3 coronatis. 

 Malabar, (Dr. Wight, 1837). 



Preecedenti affinis. Nodi crassi ; internodia teretia vel 

 angulata substriata. Petioli 1-2 cent, longi antice canalicu- 

 lati. Folia 12-14 cent, longa, 6^-7 lata parum ineequilatera, 

 m acumen breve acutum subobliquum attenuata, margin ibus 

 parumper revoluta, utrinque lcevia glabra, subtus pallidiora, 

 ad lentem fortiorem punctata ; e nervo medio paullo supra 

 basin utrinque duo nervi exoriuntur, quorum inferior ad ^, 

 sequens ultra | alt. adscendit; ad 1-2 cent, distantiam a basi 

 utrinque adhuc nervus oritur, qui cum eodem lateris oppositi, 

 cm plerumque haud oppositus est, aream lanceolatam includit, 

 infra apicem finitus ; anastomoses transversa? parum promi- 

 nulae. Amenta pedunculo \ cent, longo sustenta, 6 cent, fere 

 longa erecta glabra. Cyathi aperti bilabi, labio exteriore con- 

 cavo, interiore planiusculo obtuso ; bacca depresso-globosse 

 us Piperis nigri similes, stigmatibus 3 lanceolatis recurvis 

 puberulis coronatee. 



Artanthe, Miq. 



!• Artanthe tuberculata, Syst. Pip. p. 497. 

 Banks of the river Guayaquil, (Jameson) . 



Otto n i a, Spr. 



!• Ottonia diversifolia, Kunth.—Syst. Pip. 538. 

 Bio* (Scouler). 



Ejusdem forma grandifolia, foliis 12-15 cent, longis, 5 £-7 

 latis, ineequilateris, in medio latissimis, habitu peculiari 

 In signis, sed nullo certo charactere distincto.— Cum prse- 

 ced. 



Amatelaedami, Junii, 1846. 



