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imnicrsa fusca nitida, sursum contracta rujjoso-plicata viridi apice lusco- 

 papulosa (sec. sp. Perottet.) 



C Forma javana. — Piper pusillum Blume! in Verh. 

 JBatav. Genoots. Tom. XI. p. 232. Enum. pi. Javae . fasc. 1. 

 p. 76. Micropiper Miq. I. c. p. 62. Glabriuscula, foliis bre- 

 viter petiolalis, amentis terminalibus longe pedunculatis pe- 

 flunculos aequantibus. 



Icon. Comment, phytogr. Tab. V. fig. B. 



Habitat in excelsis declivibus raontis Tjerimai Provinciae 

 Cheribon insulae Java , super arborum truncos (Blume ! 1. c. 

 et in Hb. Lugd. Bat.), in Java (Schmidt! in Herb. reg. berol.) 



Suflruticulus dimidium pedem alius e radice fibrosa ramos plures 

 crectos agens, ad nodes subviolaceos, in sicco canaliculatos, glabros, ra- 

 mulis subvcrticillatis dkbotojnisque , patentibus. Folia breviter petio- 

 laia , opposita, terna , quaterna, magnitudine parum disparia, subrhom- 

 beo-ovalia , obovato-rotundata , glaberrima , in sicco nitentia , viventia 

 obscura, integerrima margine paulisper revoluto, trinervia, nervis duobus 

 lateralibns obsoletioribus, rarins omnino evanidis. Folia 1 — 1* cent, 

 longa, vix 1 lata. Petioli striati 2—4 mm. longi. Amenta soli- 

 taria, brevia, 13 — 15 mm. longa, terminalia, longe peduncalata (pe- 

 duncalis li cent, circiter longis glabris) crassinsoula , teretia , obtusa. 

 Flores confertiorcs , rbacbi crassiusculae , pilis patentibus dense vestitae 

 immcrsi, bracteisque teoti. Stamina duo. Antherae parvae sacciilis 

 binis discretis. Ovaria baccacque verrutuloso-rugulosa , ovoidea obtu- 

 §a. Stigma exiguuni in apicc, brcvilcr penicillatum (sec. spec. Herb. 

 Lugd. Batav.) 



D. Forma norfolcensis. Piper aemulum Endlich.! Prodr. 

 Flor. Norfolkic. p. 36. — Ramis glabris, glabriusculis, petiolis 

 peduDCulisque pilosis, amentis pedunculos fere aequantibus, 

 icon. Ford. Bauer Jllustr. Pi. Noriblk. Tab. 127 incd. 



Habitat in insula Norfolk, mense Oclobri florens (Ferd. 

 Bauer! in Herb. reg. berol.) 



Radix nodoso-incrassata, radiculis plurimis filitbrmibus stipala. Cau- 

 Ics ex eadcm radice ])lures, procunibcntos, pcnnae corvinae crassilie. viri- 

 dcs. carnosi, sulcati; paullo supra radicem ramosi, ad ramorum cxorluni 

 nodoso-incrassati, ramique dicbotomi, divaricato-patcntes adscendentcs, {rJa- 

 bri. Folia 4—5 vcrticillata, patcnlia vel subrdlcxa, ovato-orbiculata, 

 ob^ll^a rctusavc, glaberrima. carnosula, sublus coiivcxiuscula trinervia 



