103 



Habitat in Nora Zeelandia, loco dicto bale Tasman (D'Ur- 

 ville 1. c.) 



»Caalis herbaceus, erectiusculus , radiccUas plures humo et crypto- 

 gamis variis intermixtas basi emittcns , filiformis, fere sarmentosus. Folia 

 alterna, brcviter petiolata, ovali-oblonga, obtusa, basi attenuata, sulitn- 

 nervia, nervo medio prominulo, lateralibus obscuris, glabra, carnoso-mem- 

 branacea, desiccatione fere pellucida, decidua. Spicae florum ad api- 

 cem caulis laterales, filifoimes, rectae, solitariae, i-1 poll, longae." 



Richard 1. c. . v r 



Monente hoc auctore affinis asset P. pellucidae, a qua tolioram forma 



et caule duro quasi sarmentoso rccederet. In Herb, gaudichacdii species 



inedita exstaret, in insulis Mariannis lecta, P. Urvillianae admo- 



dura similis. 



Anne ad P. Endlicheri relerenda? 



fiO. Peperomla pallida J. Dietr. spec. Tom. I. p. 153. 

 Piper Forst. Prodr. n. 24. Foliis alternis ohlongo-ellipticis 

 glabris trinerviis, amentis axillaribus , solitariis filiforraibus , 

 baccis remotis distinclis. 



Habitat in insula Societalis, Taiti (Forsler 1. c.) 



Specimen in ins. Oahu a el. beechey ledum (in Herb. De Less.) ibr- 

 tasse ad hanc speciem referendum vidctur: llerba succulcnta e basi de- 

 cumbente et longe radicante erccta, 9 cent, alia, sicca nigricans, simplex, 

 plabra Folia coriacea , glabra , inferiora opposita , spathulato-elliptica ob- 

 tusa, basi angusta in petiolum brovem contracts vix 2 cent, longa, 

 superiors alterna clliptica, obtusiuscula, 2^ cent, longa, 1 paullo latiora, 

 trinervia, petiolis 6 mm. longis. Amenta axillaria bma vel soblana, 

 filiformia, versus apiccm paullo incrassata, 1-U cent, longa, pedun- 

 culis I cent, longis sustenta, recta, adsi^tu fusca, densiflora nondum 

 beneefformata. Bracteae sessiles glandulosae, crassae subrotundae. Ova- 

 rium oblongam, apice stigma floccoso-puberulum albicans gerens. Sta- 

 mina duo, filamentis brevissimis, anther is biloculanbus. 



61. Peperomla rhomboldea Hook, et Jrnott. in Beechey 

 Fay, Botan. p. 70. Guill. Zephyr. Tail, in IV. Jnn. d. Sc. 

 Nat. riL p. 181. Piper acuminatum? Forst. Prod. 23. Her- 

 bacea, foliis rhombeo-rotundatis acutiusculis carnosis integer- 

 rimis breve petiolatis siccitate pellucidis 5-9-nerviis, amenl.t= 

 solitarii9(?) filiformibus ereclis folio longioribus. 



Habitat in insulis Societatis (Beechey 1. c), ibidem (Lay 

 et Collie), Taiti (Berlero et Moerenhout apud Guill. 1. c.) 



