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aequautia iisque duplo crassiora. Flores initio conferti, demum dislanlcs. 

 Bracteae pellatae glabrae subrotundae. Stamina duo, t'ilamentis 

 brevibus antberis subglobosis bilocularibus. Ovarium oblongfum gla- 

 brum stigmate exiguo puberulo in apice. Baccae nigrae subglolrosae, 

 rbachi parum immcrsac. (spc. sp. Berg.) 



P. ellipticae affinis, sed ob tbliorum situm bic collocata. 



99. Peperomla CrOudotH. Succulenla, decumbens, fo- 

 liis oppositis, petiolatis, obovato-orbiculatis , cariiosis glandii- 

 losis uninerviis vel sublrinervi-coslulalis, maigiiiibus longe 

 cilialis, amentis lermlnalibus vel laleialibus pedunculatis gla- 

 bris rectis densifloris, bracleis subrotundatis, ovario ovato acu- 

 minato, stigmate veiruculoso puberulo, baccis semi-immersis. 



Habitat in insula Bourbon (Guudot! in Herb. De Less.) 



Ilerba pusilla, basi decumbens, radicans 5 cent, alta, carnosa in sicco 

 toriacea, caule tereti. glabro, in sicco lusce glanduloso, parce dicbotome 

 ramuloso, internodiis 1 cent, circiter loijgis. Folia opposila, patentia, dcn- 

 sa, pedunculis scmiterctibue , pro»'unde canaliculalis , glabris, i'usce 

 slandulosis, 2 — 4 mm, longis suffulta, orbiculata vel obovato-orbiculata, 

 apice raro subretusa, in sirco coriacea, sparse piJiucido-punclata, margi- 

 nibus subrevoluta, 6 mm. — 1 cent, longa, uninervia, coslulato-vennlosa, 

 n. medio subtus parum proininulo coptulisfjue quibusdani ad basin sub- 

 frinervia, glandulo-'a , glabra, marginibus longissimc ciliata, pilis rectis 

 multiarticulatis. Amenta axillaria ct terminalia recta, pedunculis 

 glabris subiiblbrmibus 1—1 J cent, longis suStenta, fililormi-cylindrica, 

 apice paullo incrassata, pedunculos acquanlia, subconfertillora ; bracteae 

 pellatae, siiboibiculatac, in sicco sordide luscae, area cciitrali exigua ob- 

 scura, marginibus suborosalac, persistcnlcs. Ovarium boriiontaliter pa- 

 Icns ovato-pyramidatum glandulosum, stigmate tusco glanduloso pube- 

 rulo. Stamina duo dccidua. Bacca rhaehi glabrae semi-immersa, gla- 

 bra, atra, ovata. (sec. sp. cit.) 



100. Peperomla Decalsnei. Carnosula, glabra , decum- 

 bens, ramis oppositis adscendeiitibus vel erectis, foliis oppositis, 

 longiuscule petiolatis, rotundatis vel ovalo-rotuadalis, rameis 

 minoribus, succulentis in sicco subcoriaceis, gland uloso-punc- 

 tatis, tenuissime uninerviis venuloso-costulatis vel subtrinerviis, 

 amentis axillaribus oppositis vel internodiis suramls valde con- 

 traclis subcymose confertis, longe pedunculatis, filiform i bus, 

 baccis subglobosis verruculosis. 



Habitat in insula Bouibon (Herb. Mus. Paris, n. 705-') 



