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angulosi, sulcato-slriati, glabri, intonotliis 2-9 cent, lonjjis, noJis ja- 

 nioribus marginatis, adultis contractis. Folia erectiuscula, tenuiter mem- 

 branacea, pcllucido-pnnctulata , utrinque glabra, snpra saturate virKlia, 

 opacai subtus valde pallida, lacvissima sericeo-nitida nervisque lusce reti- 

 culata, oblique oblon<ra vel lanceolato-oblonga, inaequilatera, basi parum 

 inaequali acuta, rarius obtusiuscula , apice longe acuminata, acumine 

 acntato, 11—13 cent, longa, 3j— 4| lata, petiolis glabris antice cana- 

 liculatis 2 mm. (supremorum) — 2 cent, (ramorum) longis sustenta. E 

 nerve medio percurrente subtas promincnte utrinque 2, rare 3 costae c 

 basi vel vix supra basin ct altera ad f— | alt. a basi oriuntur , quarum in- 

 fima subtilissima , gumma per anastomoses ad apiccm dacta, subscquens 

 alte juxta margincm decurrcns, omnes anastomosibus borizontalibos sim- 

 pliciusculis junctae, Stipulae oppositifoliae decidnae lineari-lancco- 

 latac glabrae convolutac 6—7 mm. longac. Amenta feminca patula 

 pedunculis tenuibus glabris 1 cent, propemodum longis sustenta, ovato- 

 gfobosa 4—6 mm. longa densiflora. Bracteae brcvissime pedicellatae, 

 pelta suborbiculari dcmum orbiculari. Ovarium ovatum glabrum in 

 stylum longum cylindricum attenuatam, stigmatibus 4 lineari-lan- 

 ceolatis revoluto-patulis supra puberulis. Amenta matura globosa 8 

 mm. circiter crassa, baccis discretis non nisi basi cohaerentibus brac- 

 teasquc replicatas tcgcntibus, ovato-globosis glabris laevibus stylo per- 

 sistente stigmatibasque (an stylo serius deciduo) rostratis, unde singularis 

 hnjus amcnti adspectus. Semen immatnrum subglobosam, albuminc 

 sordide albo iarinoso. — Sp. masc. lemirieis adjecta et probabQiter ad ^ 

 banc speciem pertinentia ramos babent angulosos, folia coriaceo-mem- * 

 branacea, obsolete pellacido-punctata, ramea ovato-oblonga basi subac- 

 •juali rolandata, septupUncrvia, petiolis antice canaliculatis et jnniorlbus 

 anguste membranacco-alatis sustenta, ramulorum brcvissime pctiolata lan- 

 ccolata, basi acuta subquintij])linervia. Amenta erectiuscula Ij cent, 

 lonfa, pedunculis 6 mm. longis, rcctiuscula. Bracteae subsessilcs 

 orbiculatac. Stamina 2 parum cxserta, i'ilamcntis brcvibus crassis, 

 anthcris ovatis bilocularibus (sec sp. cit.) 



44. ChaTica Mullesna, Piper Ilamilt. in Don Prod, 

 fl. Nepal p. 20. Foliis ellipticis, acuininatis, basi allenualis 

 acutis Irinerviis, glabris, amenlis globosis, solilariis, peduncu- 

 latis, petiolo longioribus. 



Habitat in Nepalia. 



45. Chavlca Gnlgual. Piper Hamilt. I c. p. 20. Foliis 

 ovatis longe acuminatis, basi rolundaiis quinquenerviis , gla- 

 bris, amentis globosis, solitariis, pedunculalis , petioles ac- 

 quanlibus. 



