196 



Habitat in ins. St. Domingo (Poiteau! in Herb, De Less.), 

 Brasilia (Blanchet ! n. 1485 ibid.) 



Foliorum forma ad P. cmarginatara et P. caneif'oliam tendit. Fo- 

 lia oblonga vel oblongo-spatliulata 7 — 9 cent. longa, 3 — 4f lata, petiolis 

 aliquaiido 4 cent; radicalia 13 cent, longa, 5 lata, apice emarginata. 

 Amenta nondum florentia SJ cent. longa, pedanculos acquantia, soli- 

 taria. Brae tea e rotundae, fuscae, subrubenti-glandulosae, marginibus 

 lulescentes. 



Forma grandifolia. Peperotnia obtusifoUa Hort. Betol.f Sla- 

 lura major, foliis obovato-oblongis, apice rotundatis. 

 Herb. WilR n. 715! 



Habitat ad Caracas (Hb. Willd.!), Porto Allegro (Sellow! 

 in Hb. reg. ber.), Surinami (Hostmann ! in Hb. De Less.) 



Suffmtex succulent as, ramosus, basi radicans, rami teretes, crassi, 

 virides. Folia camosa supra saturate, subtas pallide viridia , obovato- 

 oblonga, apice rolundato obtusa, marginibus extenuatis rigidiusculis, ver- 

 sus basin scnsim in petiolum 1 — 2§ cent, longum plano-sulcatura mar- 

 ginibus elevatis, postice crasso-conveium contracta, 10 — 14 cent, longa, 

 5 — 7 supra medium lata , nervo medio crasso subtus ad § alt. valde pro- 

 minentc flavicante, percurrente, supra canaliculate, utrinque costulas 

 majores 4 (aliasque vennlas) parallele adscendentes, obsolete ramnlosas 

 cmittente, qaarum infimae 2 lore e basi prodennt, subtus impressac, 

 supra TJx prominulae, in siccis saltern bene discemendae (sec. sp. \iv. 

 Hort. bcrol.) Amentum ramulum lateralem terminans, peduncnlo 

 10 cent, circiter longo , cicatricibus foliorum bractcaeforminm instructo 

 snstentnm , 13 cent, longum. Flores ut in specie (sec. sp. Siirin.) 



Ad P. talinifoliam quodammodo accedit. 



187. Pcperomla amplexIcauUs ^. Dietr. Spec. Tom. I. 

 Piper Swart z! Prod. p. 16. Fl. Ind. occ. Tom. I. p. 67. 

 Erecta , ramosa , succulenta , glabra , foliis alternis sessilibus 

 vel subsessillbus, succulenlo- carnosis, anguste cuneato-spalhu- 

 latis apice contracto obtusiusculis, nervo medio valido utrin- 

 que usque ad | alt. 3 — 4-costulalo, amentis in summo caule 

 ex axillis foliorum bracteaeformium axillaribus, pedunculatis, 

 rectis, densifloris, bracteis oblongo-rotundatis , pedicellatis, 

 ovario ovato acuminate antice sligmalifero. 

 Herb. Willd. n. 712! 



Habitat in India occldenlali, Jamaica, in arboribus mori- 



