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site et trichotome ramosa, rnmulis petiolisque puberulis, foliis 

 oppositis et quaternis, succulentis, sparse pellucido-punclatis, 

 subtus pallidis, utrinque glabris, lanceolatis vel sublancealis , 

 basi acutis apice attenuato obtusiusculis, obsolete quinquener- 

 viis costulato-venulosis nervo medio prorainulo , amentis ter- 

 ininalibus et axillaribus longiiiscule pedunculatis filiforraibus 

 folio longioribus remotifloris , ovariis ovatis apice stigmatiferis. 

 Habitat in insula Jamaica (Wiles! in Herb. De Less.) 



Planta succulenta , 25 cent, propemodnm alta, caule tcretiusculo , 

 glabro, calaraura scriptorium fere crasso, erecto, cito ramis oppositis 

 trichotome ramosus, internodiis 4 — 5 cent, longis. Ramuli lenuiorcs, 

 internodiis multo brevioribus, puberuli. Folia opposita, superiora qua- 

 terna , erecliuscula , succulenta , in sicco membranaceo-coriacea , sparse 

 pcUucido-punctulata , utrintjue glabra, marginibus subrevoluta, su^ira 

 atro-viridia , subtus pallida, petiolis anticc canaliculatis puberulis 2 — 3 

 rarius 4 mm. longis sustcnta, lanceolata, rarius subelliptico-lanceolata , 

 subaequilatera , basi acuta, apice attenuato obtusiuscula , obsolete quin- 

 quenervia et venuloso costulata , nervo medio crassiusculo prominulo, re- 

 liquis tenuissimis, IJ — 2| cent, longa , 5 — 9 mm. lata. Amenta tcr- 

 mioalia vel aiillaria, pedunculis puberulis vel glabratis filiibrmibus 

 1 — 1^ cent, longis sustenta, filiformia, admodam tenuia circiter 2 cent, 

 longa remotiflora. Bractca breviter pedicellata , merabranacea, glabra, 

 pelta oblongo-rotundata, maiginibus deflexa, basi apiceque patolis, persis- 

 tens. Stamina duo, autheris subglobosis. Ovarium ovatum, apice 

 stigmate puberulo instructum (sec. sp. cit.) 



137. Peperomla Swartzlana. P. filiformis A. Dietr. 

 Spec. I. c. hand R. et P. Piper Jili for me Swatiz Prod. p. W. 

 Fl. Ind. occid. Tom. J. p. 73. Uerbacea, repens, filiformis^ 

 glabra , caule raruisque telragonis , foliis petiolatis (parvis) in- 

 ferioribus oppositis, summis quaternis, lineari-oblongis obtusis, 

 subtus pallide rubro-maculatis , glabris, amentis terminalibus 

 solitariis pedunculatis, ovario apice stigmalifero, bacca oblonga. 



Icon. S-w. Prod. Tab. V. 



Habitat inter muscos ad radices arborura in monlibus altis 



Jamaicae, vernale (Sw. 1. c.) 



»Herbaceum. Radices cajiillares, Caulis filiformis, longissirae re- 

 igns, subdivisus, tetragonus, glabcr, striato-maculatus. Rami breves, 

 adscendcntes , fililbrmcs, laxi, crccliusculi, tetraquetri, raaculati , glabri. 

 Folia parva . jjctiolata, inf'erne opj)osita , dccussata, apice quatcrna, 



