185 



Icon. Plumier ]. c. Tab. 67 ')? 



Habitat in montosis Americae; in Jamaicae montosis supra 

 rapes et arborum truncos (Wiles! in Herb. De Less,), St. Do- 

 mingo (Poileau! in Herb. De Less.), Guiana gallica (Poileau! 

 ibid.), Surinamo (Focke! in Herb, prop.) 



Herba succulenta, in sicco submembranacea , repens et ad nodos longc 

 radicans, apicibus ercctis, parce dichotome ramosa, us<jue ad | metr. 

 longa, caule ramisque succulentis subteretibus, pubescenlibus, aetate 

 sensim glabratis, interaodiis 2— G cent, longis. Folia alterna longe pe- 

 tiolata, saccdenta, in sicco plus minus pellacidopanctata ct membrana- 

 cea, snpra saturate viridia obscura, glabra, ad imam basin pilosa, margi- 

 nibus ciliata, ciliis demnm deciduis, infra pallida inprimis juniora dense 

 pilosa, vetusta marginibus snbrevoluta, petiolis 3 — 5 cent, longis scmi- 

 teretibus antice canaliculatis puberulis (pilis brevibus patulis) sustenta 

 ovata, acuminata, acumine acutiusculo, basi rotundata aut leviter cordata, 

 3 — 7^ cent, longa, 3 — i lata, nervo medio crassiusculo infra prominente 

 infra i alt. utrinque 4 circiter costulas adscendentes emittente parce ramu- 

 losas nudo oculo aegre discernendas ; nervulus tenuis circum marginem 

 decurnt. Amenta axillaria vel terminalia, binata vel ternata, pedun- 

 culo communi nempe ramulum axillarem vel terminalem referente, pe- 

 dunculis singulis bractea oblonga exigua concava cito decidua stipa- 

 tis, puberulis 1—2 cent, longis sustenta, cylindrica recta vel flexuosa 

 obtusa in sicco 1—2 mm. crassa, adspectu subochracea, florentia circiter 

 6 cent, longa, adulta baccifera duplo longiora. Rhachis succulenta 

 fovcis exsculpta. Bractea pedicellata peltata, i)elta orbiculari in sicco 

 mcmbranacea glabra fusca concava, marginibus extcnuatis pallidis erosulis. 

 Ovarium obliquum apice scutatim incrassatum, in ccntro scuti stigma 

 punctiforme puberulum gerens. Stamina duo lateralia, antheris pallide 

 flavis peltatim orbiculatis, loculis appositis subsemirotundo-oblongis. Bacca 

 immatnra horizontalitcr patens et ejnersa, oblongo-cylindrica atro-fusca, 

 apice scutum pallidum glandulosum subacurainatum marginibus et poslice 

 deflexum gerens, in cujus centre rudimentum stigmatis punctilbrme (sec. 

 sp. Poiteau). In spcciraine guianensi folia sunt magis oblonga; aliara 

 autcm differentiam non video. 



174. Peperomia myrlocarpa. Erecliuscula. succu- 

 lenta, glabriuscula, caule glabro (alato?), foliis alternis lon- 

 giuscule petiolalis succulentis glabris, pellucido-punclulatis, 



*) Nuni LijijTABUs nomine Piperis disfachyi hanc vel unam affinium iuiel- 

 Iflxcnt , nee brevier dcscriplio nee Tabula cilafa docent ; veri simili habeo , 

 ' . affines has species noii distinxisse. 



