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pedice]Iatae , pelta saccalenta, viridi, cenlro crassiore versus ambitum 

 magis extcnuata, suborbiculari. Ovarium ovaturn apice stigmatiferum ? 

 Stamina 2. — Quid laminae tenues filiformes hie illic inter bracteas 

 exsertae? — (sec. sp. Humboldt, in Herb. Willd.) 



Specimina Pocppigiana slerilia vegetiora (18 cent, alta) basi valde 

 radicantia, foliis inf. terc If cent, longis. 



74. Peperomla nlvaUs. Erecta, sirapHciuscula , con- 

 tracla, carnosa, glabra, foliis alternis confertissirais , hinc 

 aliquando subverticillalis, petiolatis, patulis vel reflexis , crassis 

 (an subdolabriforniibus), elliplicis vel obovato-ellipticis subobli- 

 quis utrinque acatiusculis , amentis in caule supra folia elon- 

 gato bracteato alternis paniculalis, subsessilibus, cylindricis 

 erassiusculis oblusis subdensifloris , anlheris magnis biloculari- 

 bus, ovario ovato, apice paullo antioe stigmatifero. 



Habitat in Peruvia, in vicinitate lineae nivalis (Philippi! 

 in Herb. rag. berol.) 



Habitu P. ioliosam retcrens, sed tblioram indole et amentorum 

 dispositione P. dolabriFormi magis affinis, at raulto minor. An 

 forma ejus alpina ? Foliorum autem forma in sp. exsiccalo baud tuto 

 extricanda. 



Planta 3—8 cent, alta, rigida, coarctata, erecta, plerumque simplex, 

 basi radicans, glabcrrima, crasso-camosa, in sicco coriacea. Pars foliata 

 inferior 1—5 cent, longa, intcrnodiis omnino fere con tractis foliis densis- 

 sime tecta. llaec sparsa patula vel defleia utrinque glabcrrima opaca, 

 subtus pallida, crasso-coriacca , epunctata, nervis omnino abscond] tis, cl- 

 liptica, basi acuta, apice acutiusculo subobliqne deflexo , marginibus ri- 

 jrido-extenuata , i— If cent, longa, 4—8 mm. lata, petiolis erectiusculis 

 antice canaliculatis 1 — 5 mm. longis, an decurrenlibus ? ? C;.ulis supra 

 folia clongatus 3—6 cent, longus, ex axillis foliorum floral ium brac- 

 teaeformium ellipticorum sessilium aliquot millimetra longorum, 

 amenta solitaria vel gcminata, erecta subscssilia vel brevissimc peduncu- 

 lata cxsercns et ipse in amentum terminatus. Amenta florcntia, recta, 

 cylindrica 1— 2| cent, longa, 1| mm. crassa, versus apicem plerumque 

 aliquid incrassata, obtusa. Bracteae virginales imbricatac florentes sub- 

 remotae, rhacbin glabram pro parte nudantes, Bracteae breviter pe- 

 dicellatae peltatae, orbiculares, glabrae, baud marginatae. Stamina duo, 

 lateralia, antheris magnis ovato-subglobosis, sordide luteis, biloculanbns, 

 loculis appositis discretis. Ovarium ovatum , apice subanlioe stigma 

 puberulum fercns (sec. sp. eit.) 



75. Peperomla margarltlfera Hooker Icon, plant. 



