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nocco, juxta El Randal de Maypure, Aprili fl. (Humb. ei 

 Bonpl. .' in lib. Willd.) 



Suffruticulus coriaceo-succalentus glaber, 1—2 pedes altus, ramosissi- 

 mus, crectus. Folia opposita, coriacco-succulenta, in sicco coriacea, 

 {)ellucido-punctala , supra parum, snbtas plus nitidula, utrinque glaber- 

 rima, elliptica vel obovato-elliptica , basi acutiuscula, apice obtusa vel 

 rotundata, subretusa, aequilatera, marginibus carliJagineo-incrassatis 

 nitidis Yalde revoluta, 17| cent longa, SJ— 10' lata, crassc quinque- vel 

 subseptemncrvia, nervis, iupriniis medio supra inprf ssis, subtus prominen- 

 tibus nitidis , tribus mediis ad apicem , 2 lateralibns supra medium duc- 

 tis , mfimis , si adsunt marginalibus brevibus ; omnes utrinque subtiliter 

 ramulosi. Pctioli crassi 7|— 9 cent, longi , angulosi, an fere alati? 

 glabn. Amentum adest unicum (solutum) tenue filiforme pedunculo 

 a- cent, circiter longo sustentum 7 cent, longum subremotiflorum. Brac- 

 teae oblongo-rotundatae subsessili-pcltatae fuscae pallide marginatac. Sta- 

 mina 2 lateralia brcvia, antberis oblongo-globosis sordide luscis, loculis 

 oblongis appositis. Ovarium ovale parmnper oWiquum apice subantice 

 stigma pubescens gcrens. (sec. sp. Humboldt, in Herb. Willd.) 



108. Peperomia hypoleuca. Fruticulosa, erecla,parce 

 opposite ramulosa , foliis petiolatis coriaceis sparse subtilissime 

 pellucido-punctatis, supra atroviridibus glabris, subtus albi- 

 cantibus, peliolisque , maxime ad nervos sparse hirtis, demum 

 glabralis subquinquenerviis, infimis minutis oppositis, superio- 

 ribus lernis quaternis , obovaio-rotundalis vel obovatis ellipli- 

 cisve acutiusculis vel subacuininalis. 



Habitat in insulis Sandwich , m. Octobri (Gaudichaud ! i„ 

 Herb. De Less.) 



Fruticulus 30 cent, circiter altus, simpliciusculus , erectus, habitu 

 Fcuban ex iolns forma mire diversis et subtus albicantibns insi^nis basi 

 enod,srad.cans; canlis in sicco fuscus subligneus, pennam corumbinam 

 crassus, teres, glaber, parumpcr nodosus, internodiis 4-5 cent lon^is 

 Fol.a versus verticem sensim majora et conJbrtiora, in sicco coriacea ," 

 sparse sublabter pclluado-punctata , supra atn,-viridia parumpcr nitidula 

 glabra, subtus alb.cantia, nervis qninque, quorum infimi Vubtilissimi 

 breves, tres medii distinctiorcs ibsci (medio ad apicem. adslantibus tere 

 ad apicem pcTCurrentibus) notata, juniora dense, adulta sparse, prae- 

 primis in nervis petiolisque birtella, margmibus extenuatis subrevolulis 

 mfima opjiosita ternave erecto-patentia orbicularia |-1 cent, in diametro ' 

 pet.olos acquantja, media tcrna obovato-orJ.icuIata 2 cent, longa V lata' 

 aJ,a 2^ longa 2 lafa, petiolis 1-lt cent, longis. In .quibusdlm* speci ' 

 munbus loha bacc .otmulafa indc ab initio dcsant ct nonnisi quae nunc 



