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tiec stamina iegat. Ovarium sacculentam, 1 mra. circiter longnm , 

 atro-viridc , subpapillosum , oblique ovatum, acuminatum; Jacics externa 

 impressa pauUo supra medium stigma circulare e papillis Lrevi-penicil- 

 latis obconicis iiiscis vel atro-tuscis composilum, Ibveolae subimmersum 

 tanquam punctum nigrum oblert. Cellulae ovarii subrotundae laxe con- 

 natae. Stamina duo latcralia. Filamenta ad ovarii basin affixa, laxa, 

 complanata , apice dilatato transverso , ovarii diametro transverso perpen- 

 diculari acquilongo, inter ovarii et ibveae parietes recepta. Ant her ae 

 emergcntes biloculares pallide flavae, loculis appositis, connectivo cum 

 dilatato iilamento cahaerente, loculis oblongis, convexis interne concavis, 

 rima laterali subantice dehiscentibus, ita ut demum pars parictis superior 

 tota evanescat et anthera effocta scyphitbrmis evadat (sec. spec. viv. Hort. 

 Roterod.) 



185. Peperontla cnnelfoUa A. Dietr. Spec. pL Tom. I. 

 Piper WilW Enum. p. 47. Jacq. Collect. IV. p. ill. Erecla, 

 succulenta, glabra, foliis alternis petiolalis obovato-spalhulalis 

 versus basin cuneato-angustatis et in petiolmn latum profunde 

 canaliculatum contraclis, superioribus apice rotundatis, infe- 

 rioribus acutiuscule protractis, mulliplinervi-costulatis, amen-, 

 lis terminalibus longissirais longe pedunculatis solitariis vel 

 subpaniculatim confer lis, subdensifloris, ovario ovalo rostralO; 

 stigmate antico puberulo-globoso. 



Icon. Jacq. 1. c. Tab. 214. 



Habitat in America, Caracas (Jacq. Willd. 1. c.) 



Praeoedcnti et P. oblusilbliae admodum affinis, sed Ibliorum forma, 

 ab utraqnc ut vidctur satis diversa. Folia majora obovato-spathulata 



basi cuneata, apice lato-rotundata vel subacute protracta , 9 10 cent. 



longa, 4—5 lata, infima duplo majora, petiolis lato-canalicuiatis 

 1| — 2 cent, longis sustcnta; nervo medio crasso subtus promincntc e basi 

 et supra earn 8 circiter costulas adsccndentes eraittente , quarum summae 

 minores et magis patulac; folia snperiora olwvato-spathulata, apice 

 rotundata, 6—8 cent, longa, 3—4 lata. Amenta terminalia vel e 

 summis tbliorum axillis, hinc conierta, paniculata, pedunculisbasi minuta 

 bractea fultis , 12 cent, longa, pedunculis 2—12 cent. Rhachis 

 foTeolata. Bracteae breviter pedicclJatae, oblongae. Stamina duo, 

 antheris subglobosis. Ovarium foveac immersum ovatum obliqnum' 

 rostratum, infra rostrum ad J alt. stigma globuloso-puberulum geren? 

 (sec. sp. cult. Ilort. berol.) 



\m. 



Peperomf a obtusifolla A. Dietr. Spec, pi Tom. I. 



