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pallidc viridia hand reticulata, glabra, janiora sparse ciliolata, pilis in 

 apicc diutius persistentibus , obsolete trincrvia, iiervis parum ramulosis, 

 aliqnando fere totis obsoletis, petiolis subglabris profundc canalicalatis 



1 5 mm. longis, in sicco pellncidis sustenta, forma varia, alia omnino ro- . 



tnnda 4—8 mm. in diametro, alia elliptica vel obovato-elliptica, basi 

 acuta 8 mm. longa, 5 lata, sed haec illis rariora. Amenta in apice 

 ramulorum solitaria pcdnncnlos 6—8 mm. longos puberulos initio 

 florescentiae circiter acquantia , filil'ormia recta , adspectu nigncantia. 

 Bracteae juveniles dcnsae, subimbricatae, florcntes remotiores pcltatae, 

 subsessiles, subrotundae , atro-fuscae, marginibus pallide fuscae. Stamina 

 duo. Antberae bilocularcs. Ovarium et bacca immalura parumper 

 immersa ovata apice stigmatifera (sec. sp. Heraud.) 



In Herb, De Less, specimina sterilia exstant (an ex Herb. Vcnten.?) 

 fere glabrata, compagis paullo crassioris ct minus pcllucidae, foliis sub- 

 rotundis vcl subrotundo-ellipticis , glabris, rarius ad apicem ciliolatis, 

 majoribus 12 mm. longis, nervis, inprimis medio, pauUo crassioribus, et 

 ramulosis instructa. 



98- Peperomla retusa A. Dietr. Sp. pi. Tom. I. Piper 

 Linn. p. Suppl. pi p. 91. Glabra succulenlo-herbacea, repens 

 adscendens, foliis oppositis alternisve petiolatis ovatis, subro- 

 tundatis vel obovalis subretusis, uninerTi-mullicostulalis vel 

 sublrinerviis , apice aliquando subtilissime ciliolatis , amentis 

 lerminallbus plerumque solitariis, demum remotifloris, baccis 

 nigris subglobosis parum iramersis. 



Habitat in Promontorio Bonae Spei (Thunberg apud Linn., 

 Herb. De Yriese!)^ ibidem ad Kerstenbosch (Bergius! in Herb, 

 reg. berol. et De Less.) 



Herba camosa, repens; rami adscendenti-erecti spitbamei simplices vel 

 dicbotome ramosi, tcreti-compressi (ex iinnaeo ancipites), glabri. Folia 

 pleraque opposita (in vegetioribus baud raro altcrna), patula, 1 — ^plura 

 cent, distantia, petiolis scmiteretibas raarginatis 2 — 6 mm., raro IJcent. 

 longis sustenta, carnoso-succulcnta, sicca crasso-membranacea , subpellucida, 

 hand pmictata, utrinque glabra, apice nuda vel tcnerrime ciliolata, mar- 

 ginibus subrevoluta, obovato-rotnndata aut elliptico-rotundata vel fere 

 ovata, apice lato rotundato, in quibusdam snbretuso, inferiora 8 mm.^ 1 

 cent, longa, 6 mm. lata, superiora saepe majora IJ cent. longa, 1 lata 

 vcl et latiora, nervo medio sobtus prominulo utrinque plures costulas 

 venosas versus margines adscendentes dicbotome ramosas emittenle, qaa- 

 rum utrinque 1 vcl 2 c basi, bine subtri- vel quintnplincrve foliam 

 dicendnm. Amenta terminalia plernmque solitaria erecta, peduncaljs 

 1 — 1| cent longis glabris tcnuibos sostcnta, carnosa, glabra, pedunculoa 



