Planche 598. 
PEPEROMIX VERNCHARFELTI, 
PÉPÉROMIE DE VERSCHAFFELT. 
ÉTYM. Altération augmentative de mémepe (eus), piper (poivre) en latin. 
PIPERACEÆ $ PEPEROMIEZÆ. 
CHARACT. GENER. Flores herma- 
hroditi dense v. remote amentacei. 
racteæ peltatæ breviter v. longiuscule 
pedicellatæ persistentes v. deciduæ, pelta 
carnosa v. foliacea. Slamina 2 lateralia, 
filamentis teretibus v. subulatis, anthe- 
ris bilocularibus, loculis oppositis effœtis 
sursum confluentibus hine subunilocula- 
ribus. Ovarium sessile ovoideum v. 
oblongum aliquando in foveolis rhacheos 
subimmersum rectum v. obliquum. Sti- 
gma sessile penicillatum deciduum, pe- 
nicillis longioribus v. exilissimis v. in 
apice ovaril recti v. in antico paricete 
oblique acuminati, et tune plerumque 
minutissimum, Bacca sessilis fere ex 
succa. Pericarpium tenue; semen con- 
forme, testa membranacea v. coriacea ; 
albumine candido farinoso; embryo mi- 
nutissimus. D 
Herbæ carnosæ succulentæ aliq. minu- 
lissimo v. el suffrulicosæ erectæ v. sub- 
repentes basique radicantes ramosæ; ra- 
mis foliisque allernis oppositis v. verti- 
cillatis, his pres peliolatis succu- 
lenlis v. raro membranaceis glabris pu- 
bescentibus v. tomentosis costulatis v, 
mulli-nervi-venosis estipulalis viridibus 
v. coloratis non raro pellucido-glandu- 
losis cauleque aliq. odoratis; amentis 
pedunculatis axillaribus v. ex aæillis fo- 
liorum supremorum terminalibus v. op- 
positi-foliis longis v. brevibus rectis v. 
curvalis filiformibus v. carnoso-incras- 
satis, rhachi lœvi v, foveolato; floribus 
remotis v. densissime confertis, illis brac- 
leis plerumque foliaceis, his carnosis 
persistentibus instructis ; baccis insipidis 
v. acribus. 
Peperomiæ in Novi Orbis Sylvis copio- 
sissimæ v. terrestres v. supra arborum 
truncos vetustos rupesque madidas mus- 
cosasque luxuriantes, a planitie ad mon- 
tium cacumina ad semiliter, in India 
Orientali rariores, in insulis frequentio- 
res, minore quantitate in Oceaniæ insu- 
lis, mascarharis et Africa australi gi- 
gauntur. 
F. A. Guic. Miquez, Syst. Piperacea- 
rum, 63 (1). 
Pepcromina Ruiz et PAvow, Prodr. 
Flor. peruv. 8. t. 44-64. Micropiper et 
Peperomia Miquez, Comment? phytogr. 
37. 39. Tildenia esusp. in Diar. Inst. reg. 
Nederl. 1842. — {lustr. Piperaceum 
(in-4o, e, xciv PI.). War. Annal. E. 596. 
III. 558. — Piperis spec. L. GÆRTN. 
Jaco. (lc. rar. t. 212-216). Etc. Dugrge- 
lia Gaunicu. Etc. 
CHARACT, SPECIF. P. Caule humili 
succulento flexuoso glaberrimo valde ra- 
moso (jam e basi); petiolis elongatis 
(0,08-10, et certe ultra (describimus ex- 
Jjuniore planta) cylindricis succulento- 
translucentibus rosellis (lineolis nume- 
rosissimis minutis verticalibus kermesi- 
nis ornatis) ad insertionem subinflato- 
geniculatis, utroque latere basi in lineam 
elevatam acutam super caulem decurren- 
tibus; foliis ovato-rotundatis supra con- 
cavis Ccarnosis apice obtusis, margine 
tenuiter attenuato-membranaceo subre- 
voluto recto; basi cordato-emarginatis 
5-nervis inter se per nervulis transver- 
sis religatis subtus prominentibus. 
Facie supera inter nervos medianos 
macula vivide argentea longitudinali or- 
nala intra laterales interrupta: textura 
tota sub lente tenuissime granulosa; ma- 
cularum granulis paullo crassioribus 
+ translucide erystallineque micantibus ; 
punctis nonnullis impressis intermixtis ; 
facie infera pallida granulosa quoque sed 
immaculata. 
Peduneulis folia vix æquantibus ut 
geo coloratis ; spadice brevi crasso…. 
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_Peperomia Werschaffeltii Nos. in 
Joco præsenti, tabula nostra 598. — Spe- 
cies distincta. 
(1) 1 faut consulter là aussi les Conspec 
breuses espèces, que, par leur étendue 
reproduire ici, 
tus dichotomiques des sections et des nom- 
(5 pages), nous regrcttons de ne pouvoir 
