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reliqui multoties brcviorcs et tenuiores ; oiuncs anastomosibus reticulatis 

 prominulis in sicco fusois juncti. Petioli semiteretes canaliculati usque 

 ad medium utrinque stipula lineari membranacea glabra dein soluta 

 aucti, Stipula oppositifolia 1 cent, longa lanceolate! glabra convoluta. 

 A2nenta masc. in ramulis oppositiKolia pedunculis glabris tenuibus 2 

 cent, cireiter longis sustenta, fililbrmia pendula, 5 — 8, tandem 14 cent, longa, 

 glabra, adspcctu fusca. Bracteae bblongo-linearcs, sublriseriales , coria- 

 ceae , glabrae , fuscae , marginibus pallidae , apice truncate vel obtuso 

 elevato, caeterum praeter raargines et basin totae affixae. Stamina 2, 

 alveolo oblongo quadrilobo recepta, filamentis brevibus glabris baud 

 crassis, antheris subgloboso-reniformibus I'uscis bilocularibus , loculis 

 rima laterali debiscentibus. Pili hie illic inter stamina sparsi. (sec. sp. 

 Herb. De Less, inscriptura »le vrai poivre de Malie"l). 



Aliud in codem Herb, specimen exstat, a b. RICHARDO P. fall ax in- 

 scriptum, in Guiana gallica cultum, ubi ex ins. Mauritii pro vero 

 Pipere nigro infrodnctum iuit et cultoribus magnos agros plantantibus 

 fucum fecisse , cl. RICHARD autopta testatur , nam bacculas minutissimas 

 tantum protulit. 



Ad candem banc speciem P. spurium Lit.! pertinere, spccimina stirpis 

 in Hort. berol. cultae docuerunt. Caulis truticosus, nodosus, terctius- 

 culus, striulatus , e nodis radicans. Folia membranacea vel coriaceo- 

 membranacea, obsolete pellncido-punctata, venulisquc pellucidis, utrinque 

 glabra, supra saturate viridia nervis lineata , subtus glauca reticulata » 

 peliolis longis subteretibus canalicnlalis glabris, basi vel ad | alt. 

 stipula angusta lineari decidua utrinque alatis , 3 — 8 cent, longis sus- 

 tenta, ovata, basi Icviter cordata, aequilatcra , marginibus subrevoluta, 

 apice recle acuminata, 6 — 11 cent, longa, A^ — 6^ lata; nervis 7, raro 

 9 prominulis, quorum medius ad apicem , sequentes lore ad apiccm, 

 reliqui brcviores, omnes rcticulati subtilissime anaslomosantes. (sec, ramum 

 sterilcm sp. Hort. berol.) Folia ramorum florcntium iis ex insula 

 Mauritii allatis simillima. Amentum masc. 10 cent, longum, brac- 

 tcis et staminibus ul in sylvestribus. (sec. sp. cult. Herb. reg. berol.) 



5. Piper leptostachyam Wallich! List. n. 1540, Gla- 

 bruin, foliis coriaceo-merabranaceis, subtiliter pellucido-punc- 

 tulatis, nitidulis, laevibus, subtus pallidis, (superioribus) 

 oblique oblongis attenuato-acuminatis acuniine aculo, basi 

 inaequali rotundatis , noveno-nervi-coslalis , nervis 3 inferiori- 

 bus e basi Tel parum supra earn, supremo ad \ — | alt. ortis, 



1) J) Du jardin de la ville B a g n e , on i! a donne pour la premiere fois 

 (Jans celte isle) des fruits *n fevricr 1773. Bourbon." — Certo autem haec 

 a P. nigro diversissima species grana Piperis promcre nequit. 



