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bicularibus subcordatis ovalisve, crassis, supra nitidis et sparse 

 albo-floccosis, subtus pallidis toraentoso-canescentibus, nervo 

 medio crasso, amentis breviter pedunculalis terrainalibus ear- 

 noso-crassis erectis vel siibpendulis, antheris violacois, ovario 

 antice glanduloso-incrassato. 



Icon. Link et Otto 1, c. Tab, VII. — Coram, phyt. Tab. IV. fig. H. 



Habitat in Brasilia (Link et Otto I. c.) 



Suflruticulus carnosus, pedalis, crassns, ramosus, fragilis, ram is alter- 

 nis, sparsis, terctibus, succulcntis, crassis, parura nodosis, dense tomen- 

 tosis, tomento brevi floccoso albido dctergibili, sub quo cutis viridis nitens. 

 Folia altcrna, longe pedunculata (petioJo terete aut subsemiterete lami- 

 nam lere acquante) infima fere orbicuJata, subpeltata (petiolo paullo 

 supra basin ajQixo) brevi-rostrata vel acuta vel rotundata, superiora 

 niagis lato-ovata, basi subcordata, integerrima, carnosa, in pagina supe- 

 riore nitente sparse floccosa, in inieriore brevi tomento molli tenui griseo- 

 isabellino tecta, nervo medio crasso in pagina inferiore solummodo ccrncndo, 

 costuJas laterales, e basi etiam, in vivo non ccrnendas emittenlc. Folii 

 maximi petiolus 3^, lamina 5 cent. longa; aliorum Jaminae 5§ longae, 

 4y latae. Amenta terminalia, clongata,10 — 15 et plura cent, longa, 

 cylindracea, 4 mm. basi crassa, versus apiccm attcnuata, recta vel curvata, 

 rhachi carnosa viridi succosa fragili, pedanculo tomentoso cylindraceo 

 abbreviato ibliolum unum alterurave cxiguum bracteaeibrme cucullatam 

 gerente. Flores contertissimi nee post florescentiam remotiores. Brac- 

 teae subsessiles in dorsulo rhachcos, hinc quasi crassepediccllatac, orbicii- 

 lares viridi-glandulosae, submarginatae, crassiusculae, pcrsistcntes. Sta- 

 mina duo, ad margincm supcriorera bracteae, banc inter et ovarium 

 emergcntia; i'il amenta crassiuscula basi subleretia apice complanata dila- 

 tata in lossa ovarii abscondita: antberae primum pulchcrriinc violaceae 

 dcmum fuscae, biloculares, loculis oblongis, discretis, tumidulis, apposi- 

 tis, rima longitudinali laterali dehiscentibus, connectivo apice filamcnti 

 dilatato toto aflixo. Ovarium supra bracteam fossae iramersum ovoi- 

 deum, viride, glabrum, parte antica seu superiorc emergente glandulaceo- 

 incrassata pallidc aurantiaca, demum viridi, quasi scntata, scuto basi 

 obtuse, apice acuminate vel in universum angulato, unde cxlus visum 

 ovarium ipsum ovato-acuminatum adparct. In medio hoc scuto fossula 

 punctiformis, pilis brevissimis albicantibus microscopicis demum evanidis 

 vestita, verum stigma babenda (sec. sp. viv. Hert. Roterod.) 

 Specimina Hort. Berol. a nostris nulla nota difFerimt. 



190. Feperomia Tarlcgata Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Perm. 

 Tom. I. p. 33. Piper Persoon Syn. I. p. 35. hand II. B. Piper 

 maculosum Linn. Peperomia Hook. Fl. exol. Suflruticulosa 



