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oblongum, apice paallo contractam, stig-raatibus 3 — 4, patulis, pubc- 

 ruUs, albidis, brevibus obtusis. Stamina 4 — 6, i'ilamentis brevibus 

 persistentibus et dein apice incrassatis, antheris renilbrmibus flavis, 

 locniis oblongis, rimae lateralis inarfjinibus demnm inllexis. Baccae 

 ovatae , obsolete tetrajjono-sulcatae, atroFustae, laeves vcl verraculosae , gla^ 

 brae , apice stigraatibus persistentibus obtusatis erectis coronato-qaadri- 

 dentae, 2 mm. vixlongae. Pericarpiam tenue. Semen obovatum te- 

 tragonum fuscum (sec. sp. Sieb.) 



Adnot. Verisimiliter hue pertinet Piper Amalago Swartz ! Herb. 

 Willd. n. 684 ! in Jamaica lectum : difFert unice foliorum acumine ob- 

 tnsiuscalo et statura pauJlo minore. 



12. £nckea vernlcea. Ramulis juvenilibus petiolis 

 nervisque subtus quam subtiHssime puberulis , foliis membra- 

 naceis remolissime pellucido-punctatis ellipticis vel ovato-el- 

 lipUcis , inaeqailateris , basi inaequali aculiusculis , acumina- 

 lis, quinquenerviis, supra laevissimis verniceo-nitidis glabris, 

 sabtus ocbraceis in nervis prorainentibus quani subtilissime hir- 

 tellis, araentis florentibas folio paullo brevioribus, (pedunculo 

 petioluni superante), patulis cylindraceisrectiusculis, densifloris, 

 bracteis peltalis subcarnosis,raargine pedicelloque cilialo-villo- 

 sulis caeterum pallide fuscis, ovariis oblongis aculis, stigiua- 

 tibus 4 obtusis. 



Habitat Bahiae in coHibus (Salzmann! in Herb. De Less.) 



Ramus nodosHs rectus, subteres, glaber, lutesccns, striulatus, nodis 

 atrofuscis , internodiis 2 — 4 cent, longis , summis angulosis subtilissime 

 puberulis. Folia erecto-patentia, membranacca, remotissime pnnctulato- 

 pellucida Tenulisquc pellucidis, petiolis puberulis semiteribus vel mar- 

 ginibus involutis teretibus 1 cent, longis suffulta. pli-rumque inacquilatera, 

 elliplica vel OFato-elliptica, basi raro aequali acuta, jderuraqne inaequali 

 acatioscola vel obtusa , apice acuminata , acumine acuto, marginibus ad 

 lentem sub-erosis, 10—12 cent, longa, 4— plerumque 5| rarius 6 cent, 

 lata , quinquenervia , n. 3 mediis ad apicem percurrcntibus , infimis circiter 

 ad 5 alt., raro in latere majore nervulus arcessorias exilis ; omncs subtus 

 prominentes et pvihe tennissima patula vestiti. Anastomoses tenues hori- 

 zontales baud prominulac. Pagina superior vernice glutinoso nitidissima 

 {an morbo, an arte??) glaberrima, laevissima, interior subochracea, vix 

 nitidula. Stipnla oppositifolia lineari-convolata , i cent longa, 

 curvata, puWida. Amenta opjMsitiiblia patula, pedunculo 1| cent. 

 Jongo petiole crassiore puberulo sustenta , florentia 7 cent, longa , cylin- 

 drira pcnnam corvinam crassa, basi et apice contracta, densiflora. Brac- 

 tcac cariiosaejjcltatac, jKxliccllo pulicrulo, pclta subrotunda convcxa, nuda 



