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\iief cordata, raro saltern rolundata, apice anguste acuminata, acumine 

 mucronato-acutato , septcmnervia, n. 3 mediis ad apicem ductis, anasto- 

 mosibus vix visilulibus; 5—8 cent, longa, 3— 4^ lata; petioli teretius- 

 culi , antice anguste canaliculati , 1 — IJ, raro 2 cent, longi. Amentum 

 florens 3} cent, longum, subflexuosum , pedunculo 1 cent, longo. Ge- 

 nitalia ut in specimine descripto. 



In sp. Ruiziano in Horto Matritens. culto folia sunt ovato-elliptica , 

 basi rotundata vix leviter cordata , plus minus inaequalia , quinque- vel 

 stibseptupiinervia. 



Ad not. Piper pyrifolium Opiz! Reliq. Haenh, Tom. HI p, 154. 

 in Mexico ad Acapulco leclum differt non nisi tbliis basi baud revolutis 

 apice mucronulatis. (sec. sp. Hb. rcg. berol.) 



7. Enckea glaucescens Kunth! I. c. p. 593. Piper 

 Jacquin! Eclog. p. 112. P. geniculatum Willd.! Enum. Hort. 

 Berol. Suppl. p. 3. P. nodulosutn Link! Jahrb. Tom. III. 

 p. 62. P. dichotomum Hort. Paris, olim [fide Jacq.) Ramulis 

 petiolis foliisque utrinque glabris, his subraembranaceis, sub- 

 epunctulalis , glaucescenti-riridibus , opacis, oblique ovalo- 

 oblongis, angustato-subacunnnalis , acumine obtuso raucronu- 

 lato, basi inaequali rotundatis vel acutis, ima basi interdum 

 utrinque revoluli*', quinquenerviis, araenlis subereclis folium 

 subaequanlibus, bracteis brevibus subrotundis concave- cue ul- 

 latis, glabris, subtilissime ciliolatis. 



Icon. Jacq. 1. c. Tab, 76. 



Habitat in America, verisimililer in Mexico, colilurinHorl. 

 bolanicis. 



Praecedenti valdc afiinis et vix ccrtis cbaracteribus botanicis circum- 

 scribenda , at babitu sibi proprio , colore constanter glauco , Ibliis plc- 

 rumquo quinquenerviis pro bona quidem specie babenda. 



Frntex divaricate dicbotome ramosus : rami nodosi , teretes , striati 

 ramulique glabri, internodiis 3 — 9 cent, longis. Folia submembranacea 

 dense ac obsoletissime pellucido-punctulata venulisque pcUucidis notata , 

 utrinque glabra, glancescentia , snbtus pallidiora , plus minus oblique 

 ovato-oblonga , angustato-subacnminata , acumine obtuso, mucronulato, 

 basi inaequali rotundata vel acuta (in sp. culto II. Berol. aliquando leviter 

 conlata , et ima basi utrinque revoluta) qninquenervia (raro saltern tri- 

 ncrvia) ncrvis subtus prominentibus . 2 inf. vix ad A alt. ductis, anasto- 

 mosibus transvcrsis fere obsoletis, 5 — 6J cent, longa, 3—4 lata, petiolis 

 I — 1 cent, longis, semitcretibns , vix canaliculatis, glabris. Stipula 

 nppositifolia dccidua convoluta , lanccolato-subulala , glabra, parva. 



