197 



buudis inquc quisquiliis dejectarum (Sw.! 1. c. el in Hb. Willd.), 

 ibidem (Wiles! in Herb. De Less.) 



Suffruticulus carnoso-succalentus, pedalis, caulc subsimplici ereclo, 

 leviter flexuoso, angulato, compresso , sulcato, rigido, internodiis brevi- 

 bus; basi radicans. Folia alterna erecto-patentia, scssilia, vel subsessilia 

 basi amplexicaulia , succulento-carnosa , crassa, laete viridia, glabra, an- 

 gustc sublanceolatim cuneato-spathulata , indc a | alt. sursum contracta 

 acutiuscala , apice ipso obtusa , versus basin cuneatim coarctata , sed ipsa 

 basi vix unquam fere in petiolum contracta, 6—9 cent. longa, ad 

 I alt. 2 — 3-vix Sg lata , marginibus extenuatis subrevoluta , nervo 

 medio crasso, subtus versos basin prominente, supra sulcato, inde 

 a basi usque pauUo supra i alt. utrinqnc 3 — 4 costulas versus margines 

 adsccndentes , parallelas , in sicco saltern disccrnendas prope margines 

 anastomosantes emittente, qnarum infima juxta marginem decurrit. 

 Amenta in apice caulis ex axillis Ibliorum bracteaeformium sessilium 

 oblongo-acuminatorum 1| cent, circiter longorum carinalorum solitaria, 

 hiuc conferta, pedunculata, erecta[, pedunculisl — ^Scent.longis, carno- 

 sa, erecta, cylindrica, 6 — 14 cent, longa, obtusa, sicca 2 mm. crassa, 

 adspectu lutescentia. Flores dcnsissimi , annulatim dispositi, rhacheos 

 foveolis immersi. Bracteae oblongo-rotundatae pcdiccllatae, ccntro glan- 

 duloso-iuscae , raargine extenuate lutescentes. Stamina 2, filamentis 

 immersis complanatis, antheris subrotundis, loculis appositis semilunari- 

 oblongis, dilute lutesccntibns , effoetis quasi unilocularibus. Ovarium 

 oblongum immersum, erectum, rostrato-acuminatum , stigmate infra 

 rostrum exiguo puberulo (sec. sp. Wiles Hb. De Less.) Ab hoc sp. Swart- 

 zianura nuUo modo diiFcrt. 



188. Peperomla amplexlfolla Link Jahrb. Tom. I. 

 Piper ejusd. Enum. alt. Tom. I. p. 39. Foliis alternis succu- 

 lenlis glaberrirais oblongis vel lanceolatis, basi attenuata se»- 

 silibus, costulalo-venosis^ amentis terrainalibas longissiiuis, 

 pedunculo brevi crasso. 



Habitat in insula Jamaica (Link I. c.) 



Caulis brevis. Amenta gracilia 4 — S-poUicaria. 

 Sfb£Ngel (Sysl. L p. 115) cum F. amplcxicauli ut videtur iiame- 

 rito conjungit. 



189. Peperomla Incana A. Dietr. Spec. Tom. I. 

 Comm. phytogr. p. 63. Piper Haworth. Link et Otto Icon 

 rar. P. canescens et P. cornicatum Jlortor. Suifruticosa, car- 

 nosa^ ramosa, incanotomcntosa, foliis alternis pcliolalis or 



