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7 — 9 cent, longa, 5 — 6 J — 7-lata, novem-tredecim- (ex Vahl), in nostroll- 

 nervia, 3 meJiis ad apicein ductis, reliquis versus margincs adsccndentibns 

 cxlus ramulosis. Amenta in ramis axillaribus vel et terminalibus ex axillis 

 bractearum lanceolatarum 1 cent, circiter longarum, pleromqne binata, an 

 pcndula, peduncalis 2 — 5 cent, longis sustenta, 2—5 — 9 cent, longa, 

 cylindrica, 2 mm. crassa, densiflora, nostra vix florentia. Bracteac 

 peltatae glabrae carnosae subrotundatae marginibus pallidiores. Stamina 

 2 lateralia, filament is crassiusculis, antheris subglobosis sordide luteis 

 bilocularibus, loculis discretis appositis. Ovarium ovato-globosum, apice 

 stigmatosum. (sec. sp. a Pav. niissum in Herb. Willd. et Ruiz. Herb. reg. 

 bcrol.) 



23. Peperomla longepeduncnlata Opiz in Reliq. 

 Haenkean. fasc. III. Foliis alternis, longe peliolatis, glabris, 

 cordalis, subundulatisj pedunculis folium subaequantibus j 

 amentis oppositifoliis terminalibusque , filiformibus, pedunculo 

 brevioribus. 



An a praeccdenli di versa? 



24. Peperomla farcata Opiz I. c. Piper D. Dietr. EncycU 

 I. c. Caule repente, raraoso, glabro, petiolis glabris; foliis al- 

 ternis, ovatis Tel rotundato-ovatis , obtusis, glabris, 5 — 7-ner- 

 viis, margine pubescenti-ciliatis; amentis oppositifoliis, pedun- 

 culis glabris distachyis. 



Habitat in Peruvia (Haenke 1. c.) 



25. Peperomla? Poepplgli. Radicanssacculentapilosa, 

 foliis alternis, succulenlis, pell ucido-puncla lis supra glabrius- 

 culis sublus in nervis obsolete puberulis, rotundato-ovatis ova- 

 tisve, basi rolundatis vel subcordatis, breviter acuminatis acu- 

 tisve, novera- vel noveno-nerviis , marginibus petiolisque basi 

 ampla vagina amplexicaulibus hirto-eiliatis, amentis axillaribus 

 terminalibusque confertis, subdensifloris ? , bracteis peltatis 

 orbiculatis glabris, ovario ovato apice stigmalifero. 



Habitat in Peruvia snbandina ad Maynas(Poeppig! in Herb, 

 reg. ber.) 



Species cximia . petiolis basi in araplam vaginam amplexicaulem dila- 

 tatis adraodum insignis. Caul is inferne aphyllus glaber sncculentos e 

 nodis crehras longasque radices fibrilloso-ramosas emittens, sub terra 

 muscisquc ut videtur absconditus, internodiis 4—11 cent, longis, superne 

 (an creotus vel ex nrborum trnncis pendens) simplex foliosas succulentns 



