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Peperomia Ventenatii, forma pubescens. Caule ramulisque 

 microscopice puberulis vel glabris, foliis plurimis apice hir- 



tello-ciliatis. 

 Habitat in insula Manila, m. Sept. 1831. (Meyen! in Herb. 



rag. berol.) 



Differt a specie statura pauUo minore, pilisqae iUis sparsis. Folia 

 i— li cent, longa, versus basin cuneata, apice rotandata, truncata vel 

 retusa, 4—8 mm. lata. Petioli 3—6 mm. longi. 



90. Peperomia sandwicensis. Ereetiuscula, carno- 

 sula, hirlello-puberula , foliis longiuscule peliolatis, oppositis 

 et ternis, obovalis vel obovato-spalhulatis subcoriaceis sparse 

 pellucido-punctatis/lrinerviis, subtus, caule, petiolis pedun- 

 culisque pubescenli-hirtellis, supra Tersus margines hirtelbs 

 et appresse ciliatis, amentis solitariis lerrainalibus et axillan- 

 bus longe pedunculatis, rectis, subreraolifloris, baccis obovato- 

 globosis parumper iramersis. 



Habitat in insula Oahu, m. Majo 1831 (Meyen! in Herb. 



reg. berol.) 



Peperomiae Ventenatii proxime affinis et simillima, sed pube hir- 

 tella et statura majore, an satis? diversa. 



. Herba in sicco subcoriacea, suberecta, 10 cent, fere alta, caulcs e 

 radice fibrosa agens plurcs, simplices vel parce ramosos. Caulis teretius- 

 cnlns ad nodes tumidulus, snbappresse hirtellus, intemodiis 1—2 cent, 

 longis. Folia inferiora opposita, superiora tcrna, erecto-patula , petiohs 

 antice canaliculatis et ut caulis hirtellis §—1 cent, longis sustenta, snb- 

 coriacca, subtiliter pellucido-punctata, obovata, obovato-cuncata et-elbp- 

 tica, apice rotundata, truncata, rarissime leviter protracta , majora 2— 2f 

 cent, longa, 1§ circiter lata , minora 1—2 longa, 7 mm. lata, trinervia, 

 nerve medio paullo crassiore subtus prominulo, ad lentem anastomosanti- 

 reticulata, supra atro-opaca, subglabra, versus margines birtella, margi- 

 nibosque ciliolata, subtus pallida, sparse appresse birtella. Amenta 

 terminalia vel axiUaria, erecta, recta, pedunculis sparsissime Inrtclhs 

 2— 2| cent, longis filiformibus sursam parumper incrassatis sustenta, 

 4-4| cent, longa, fililormi-teretia, subdensiflora. Genitalia parumper 

 immersa. Bracteae glabrae, subrotundatac, peltato-snbsessiles, margim- 

 bus angustis lutescenti-pallidac. Stamina 2, filamentis brevibus, an- 

 ther is sordide luteis subglobosis bilocularibas , loculis appositis semiglo- 

 bosis. Ovarium semi-immersum ovato-oblongum , apice stigma exiguum 

 pubcrulam gerens. Baccae iraraatnrae obovato-globosae, semen globosum 

 (sec. sp. cit.) 



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