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F A M. 7?. P I P E R A C E .11 nob. 



Hbae perennes, passim succulentae, rarius annuae, scapi- 

 gerae et caudicatae, saepe frutescentes, caule nodoso-articulato, 

 fasciculis vasorum ( ligneis ) sparsis v. ad peripheriam caulis 

 conferlls. Folia ima^ allernn, opposila v. verticillnta, integer- 

 rima , quibusdam peltata v. sessilia, nervosa v. venosa , no- 

 vella complicata v. convoluta. Stipulae O v. peliolares et op- 

 positifoliae. Flores monoclini, rarius diclini, spicati , raclii 

 crassae < immersi, sessiles v. pedi(MlIalT, nudi, bracteati, ter- 

 minal., axillar. v. oppositifolii. Stam. 2 v. plura, lib. v. ovario 

 adnata, antheris bilocul. <i, peri - v. campyloschizis; pollinia 

 laevia globosa. Ovarium mono - p( ntaphjllum, 1-5-IocuIare, 

 ovulis atropis , solitariis , erectis v. pluribus ascendentibus. 



Bacca monosperma -i carnosa, passim 3-4-gona, rarius 



capsula V. syncyclium 5- 5- folliculare. Albumen farinac, 

 carnos. v. subcarlilagineum, passim cavum v. radiatum; em- 

 bryo parvus, apicalis, bifidus (dicolylis), saccatus. 



Genera 26 (an reducenda?), spec. GOO.^ additis Saurureis. 

 Vid. Miquel, Systema Piperacearum, 1845-4 el London Journ. 

 of Botany, 1845. 



a. Saururece: hbae hygrobiae, caudicatae, caulesc. v. sca- 

 pigerae, involucro 4-8-phyIlo, colorato passim prseditae, gy- 

 noeceo 3-5-ph}^lIo, in sjncyclium folliculare v. fructum loba- 



tum , -I baccatum , 2-co -spcrmum abiente. Differunt 



a Piperaceis ut Spiraea ab Alchcmilla; an Familia quarta 

 hu us ordinis?: — SpatJiium? AnemiopsiSy Houttuynia, Gym- 

 notheca, Saururus. 



b. Peperomiece: hbce partim repenles et acaulae v. suffru- 

 lices, fol. estipul., altern., oppos. v. verticillatis, saepe succu- 

 lelitis; spicae axill. v. terminal., solilar. v. confertae ; flor. 

 monoclini, diandri , sligma pilosum, raro lobalum; fructus 

 raonospermi ; spec. 220? — Verhuellia, Phyllobryon» Acro- 

 carpidium, Peperomia, Erasmia. 



