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constituontc), bina vel terna c singula axilla, raro solitaria. ilia niagiii- 

 tudinc valdc disparia, i>eduiiculis glabris, 1 mm. — 1 cent longi? 

 sustenta, subcrecta , rerta, i-4| cent, longa , 1-1| mm crassa (an te- 

 tragona), obtusa, glabra, axi viridi succulento, remotiflora. Flores suL- 

 immcrsi. Bracteae primum dense imbricatae, dcin remotae, brevissimc 

 pcdicellatae centre peltatae, orbiculares, glabrae, luscescentes vcl viri- 

 descentes, marginibus pallidiores. Stamina 2 lateralia, filament is 

 brevibus, antheris sordide luteis peltato-orbicuiaribus, loculis appositis 

 discretis, semi circularibus. Ovarium immcrsum , sub bractea ierc 

 absconditum , ovatum , apice subobliquo stigma gerens minutum pnbe- 

 rulum. (sec. sp. Hb, De Less.) 



113. Peperomla Rcinwardtlana. Piper subrotun- 

 dum Blume! in Ferh. Batav. Genoots. Tom. XI. p. 235. Enum. 

 pi Javae fasc. L p. 76. hand Haworth. Micropiper Miq. I. c. 

 p. 59. Pubescens, basi radicans , ramosa, foliis petiolatis op- 

 positis, terminalibus ternis, inferioribus minoribus subrotun- 

 dis, superioribus majoribus obovalo-ovalive-rotundatis , uni- 

 nerviis pubescentibus subtus convexlusculis, araentis termina- 

 libus, baccis ovoideis glabris. 



Icon. Comment, pbytogr. Tab. VIII. iig. C. 



Habitat in cacumine raontls Tjeriraai insulae Java, ad 

 truncos arborum annosarum (Blume ! in Herb. Lugd. Bat.) 



Sufiructiculus camosDS dimidium pedem altus, pubescens, ramosus, 

 inferne radicans , subprostratus , purpurasccns , pennam columbmam 

 crassus, ramis alternis, bifurcatis, oppositisve, pilis patentibus sparsis 

 vcstitis. Folia raagnitudinc admodum varia, opposita, petiolata, ultima 

 tcma,*interiora multo minora, fere rotundata, superiora majora magis 

 rotundato-OTalia, obovato-rotundata , apice interdura subretusa , longias 

 petiolata; omnia plana vel in pagina superiore plus mmus convexa, paU.de 

 ^ridia, uninervia, nervo percurn^nte parum conspicuo, nervuhsque late- 

 ralibus subtilissimis vix cerncndis, crassa , pubescent.a pube sparsa, 

 appressa, subciliata, integerrima, margine ad basm hic dhc deaticulatim 

 lacero. Inferiora centimetre minora, suprema ll longa, 1 cent. 3 mm. 

 lata. Petiolns densius pubescens k cent, longus. Amentum unum adest 

 tcrminale, solitarium, pedunculo petiolum fere aeqnante, camosum, 

 cylindraceam, 2| cent, longum , remotiflorum ; bracteae orbiculares; 

 baccae immaturae paullo immersae, ovatae, glabrae, (sec. spc Herb. 

 Lugd. Bat.) 



114. Peperomla recurvata. Piper Blume! in Ferh. 

 Batav. Genoots. Tom. XL p. 233. Enumer. pi. Javae fasc. I. 



