Trigynia* 65 



teneU PIPER, foliis diftichis ovatis aveniis 

 lum, margine ciliatis, fpica adfcendente, 



caule fimplici decumbente; Prodr. 



p. 16. 



Habitat fupra truncos, praecipue pu. 

 tridos , inter mufcos, dependens ; 

 in montibus frigidis Jamaicae, 



JLlanta herbacea. 



Radix parva, fimplex, filamentofa. 



Caulis 3 - 4 - uncialis, fimplex (rariffime divifus) 

 decumbeas, geniculatus , teres, vix ftriatus, 

 hirfutiufculus^ minutiinme rubro . punclulatus, 

 hirfutie rara inter petiolos, fulcatus, fragilis. 



Folia parva, difiicha, brevifTime petiolara, alter- 



. na, bafi ovata, apicem verfus attenuata, ob- 

 tufa , integra , avenia, enervia, pagina fupe* 

 riori verfus marginem fctofo - ciliata , fubfuc- 

 culenta, glabra, inferne pallida. 



Spica terminalis, filiformis, adfcendens, fimpJex. 



Flores minutifllmi. 



Cal, o. Squamula fubrotunda germen tegens , ad 

 cujus latera 



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