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serla, filamentis brevibus teretibus, anlhcris bilocularibus. Ovarium 

 ovatum, apice area circulari medio fere imda ambilu albo-puberula stig- 

 matica inslructum (sec. sp. viv. Uort. berol. et sice. Herb, rcgf.) 



7. reperomia asarifolia. Piper SchlechtendJ in Linnaea 

 Tom. V.p. 75. Succulenta, glabra erecta , foliis longe petio- 

 latis subrolundis aequilateris cordalis, apice obtusis vel acu- 

 liusculis, multiplinervi-coslalis, glabris, araenlis axiUaribus et 

 lerminalibus longiusculis, ovariis ovalis obtusis, apice stigma 

 longiuscule penicillatum gereolibus. 



Habitat ad rupes humidas Mexici (Schiede! in Herb. reg. 

 berol.) , ibidem in sylvis ad Oceanura pacificum , ra. Sept. fl. 

 (Galeotti! n. 6022. in Hb. De Less.) 



Succulenta, radice tuberosa pkcentiformi , nucis avellanae magn., 

 caule subsimplici obgophyllo, erecto, subpollicari, glabro, tcreti. Folia 

 succulenta, in sicco subcoriacea, pcllncido-punctata , utrinqac glabra, snb- 

 tus pallescentia, aeqnilatera, basi lata late cordata, caelcrum subrotundo- 

 ovata, obtusa vel acutiascula, 4—9 cent, longa, 5—9 vcl et 10 lata, 

 nervo medio ad basin et paullo supra earn utrinque 5— G costas emittentc 

 multiplinervia vel multicostata , ncrvis ad margines tcndcntibus subhori- 

 zontalibus dichotomis et ramulosis, sed ramulis nude oculo non disccr- 

 nendis. Pctioli subteretcs glabri 4—5 cent, longi. Amenta axUlaria 

 et terminalia, erecta, pedunculis glabris 1^—2 cent, longis sustcnta, 

 cjlindrico-filitbrmia, 6—11 cent, longa, vix 2 mm. crassa, carnosa, pa- 

 rumper curvata, glabra. Flores spiraliter dispositi remotiorcs, in sicco 

 sulcis racheos subimmcrsi. Bractea pcltata brevitcr pedicellata persistens, 

 pelta subrotnndata glabra laevi, sicca pellucido-membranacca, ccntro glan- 

 duloso-fusca. Stamina 2, fi lam cutis brevibus complanatis? antheris 

 subglobosis bilocularibus, luscis. Ovarium ovatum, stigma in ejus apice 

 longiuscule penicillatum. Baccae ovatac t usco- nigrae , vix nitidulae, glan- 

 dulosae, 1 mm. minores (sec. sp. cult. Hort. l)erol.) Spec, a Cl. gaieotti 

 lecta a cultis parumper saltern differunt. Caulis succulentus 5 cent, 

 longns, subllexuosus, internodiis 1| cent. Folia pctiolis 2-5 cent, 

 longis sustcnta, ovato-rotundata , obtusa vel acutiuscula, basi cordata, 6— 6f 

 cent, longa et lata, in sicco membranacea, 11—13 nervia, nervis omnibus 

 proximo ad basin ortis, 3 mediis ad apicem ductis, reliquis ad margines, 

 omnibus bis dichotomis. Amentum 5 cent, longum. —In sp. Schiedeano 

 folia 3—5 cent, longa, 2^—5 lata. Amentum 9 cent, longum. 



Monstrum mihi suppetit in H. Berol. cultum amento late lasciato 

 Bursum bilobo et apice in amentula digitatim partito, 



8. repeiromia Gardneriana. Erecla glabra succulenta. 



