centes pallidc marginatac, oblongo-rotandatae , subscssiles, glabrae. Sta- 

 mina 2 lateralia,i'ilainentis terclibas, antheris subglobosis dilute luteis, 

 bilocularibus, Ovarium ellipticnm , apicc paullo antice stigma globoso- 

 puberulum gcrens. Baccac fuscae ovatae apiculatae lacvcs, bractea 

 persistenti suffultac facile solubiles (sec. sp. cult.) 



78. Pepcromla Langsdorffii. Micropiper Miq. I. c. 

 p. 52, Piper Langsdorffii Hort. Roterod. an Schrank? in Act. 

 Monac. Suffruliculosa , succulenla, radicans, pauciramosa, 

 erecla, pubescens, foliis petiolalis oppositis, supremis alternis, 

 obovato- aut elliptico-rhomboideis , basi fere cunealis, apice 

 acutis raro emarginalls, ulrinque pubescentibus , trinerviis, 

 amentia terminalibus aggregalis pedunculalis reclis, baccis 

 glabris oblique ovoideis. 



Icon. Comment, pbytt^. Tab. VIII. fig. F. 



Habitat verisimililer in America merid., Brasilia, per iotum 

 fere annum in horto florens. 



Suffruticulus vix pcdalis, succulentus, basi radicans, ramis ercctissim- 

 plicibns vel pauci-ramosis , teretibus , pallide fuscesccntibus , breviter et 

 paten tim pilosis, internodiis Ibliis plcramquc brevioribus , nodis vix con- 

 spicuis. Folia opposita, snprema alterna, pctiolata; petiolo semitereti , 

 vix ccntim. longo-, lamina obovato-elliptica , snbrbomboidea, basi ple- 

 rumque angustata, cuneata, subindc aliquomodo spathulata, apice rotun- 

 data aut brcvi-acuta , raro cmarginata (infima), camosa, pallide viri- 

 dis, in pagina inferiore subalbescens , ibique plus quam in superiore 

 molliter pubcscens, trinervis, ncrvis 2 lateralibus ad apicem non pertin- 

 gentibus, margines subciliati. Folia int'criora 8— 4 cent, longa, 2' 

 lata. Superiora minora. Ramornm novellorum folia infima 

 obcordata aut obovato-emarginata. Amenta tcrminalia crecta, bina, 

 tcma et plura, aut in axillis foliorum terminalium axillaria solitaria aut 

 aj^p-crrata , pedunculata , pedunculolj cent. circiter longo ; amentum adul- 



^Qm 8 11 cent, longum, rectum, cylindraccum, strictum, apice param 



attenuatum,2— 3 mm. crassum, viridc, glabrum, non valde remotiflorum. 

 Bractcae oblongae primum basi truncatae, apice retusae, demum ro- 

 tundatae, glabrae, virides, succulentae, margine diaphanae, convexius- 

 culae. Stamina duo, antheris oblongo-globosis , pallidis , loculis satis 

 discretis. Ovarium oblongo-ovatum subobliquum. Stigma longe peni- 

 cillatum albicans. Baccae remotae, oblique ovoideae (sec. spec. cult, 

 vjv. Hort, Roterod.) 



79. Peperomla polystaehya A. Dietr. I. c. Piper 

 Ait. Hort. Kew. Piper obttisifoiium Jacq. ex Steud. Micro- 



