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lata, nervo medio valiJo ct duobus atrinque e basi ortis, duobusqne 

 supra mcflium folium protrusis, anaslomosibus reticulatis. Amenta 

 opposititblia erecta pedunculis 2 cent, longis sustenta, 6 — 7 cent, longa, 

 crassioscula , baccis ovatis scssilibus, stigmatibus 3. 



§ 3. Folia rotandato-cordata , miiltinervia , sabtomentosa. 



20. Enckea ? stlpulacea Kunth ! I. c. p. 600. Piper 

 Opis! in Reliq. Haenk. fasc. III. p, 160. Ramulis petiolisque 

 lenuiter canescenti-tomentosis , foliis membranaceis epanetu- 

 latis, opacis, supra saturate viridibus moUiter hirtellis, subtus 

 densius canescentibus, ovato-subrotundis acurainatis^ basi sub- 

 aequali leviter cordalis, multinerviis, amenlis folio triplo bre- 

 yioribus, baccis patenlissimis pedicellatis(?), glabris. 



Habitat in regno mexicano (Haenke! 1. c. et in Hb. reg. 

 berol.) 



Ramali nodosi, teretiuscali,petioIique tenuiter canescenti-tomentosi, 

 internodiis 4- — 6 cent, longis. Folia membranacea epunctulata, venulis 

 subpellucidis , supra saturate viridia opaca molliter fairtella , subtus ca- 

 nescentia , ovato-subrotunda , acuminata , basi subaequali leviter cordata 

 vel truncata 11 — 13 nervia (baud septemnervia uti cl. kdnth habet) ner- 

 vis subtus prominentibiis , 3 mediis ad apicem ductis, 10 — 12 cent, 

 longa, 85 — 9 lata, petiolis 2J — Sf cent. longis. Gemma terminalis 

 elliptico-oblonga , tenuiter cancscenti-tomentosa. (sec. sp. stcril. Opiz. Hb. 

 reg. berol., amenta ex Opiz. 1. c.) 



§ 4. Species desciscens. Baccac depresso-globosae. Bracteae peltatae. 



21. Enckea dubia Kunth I. c.p. 606. Piper Poiteanum 

 Kunth olim. Ramulis foliisque utrinque (praeter ultimum 

 apicem junioruin) glabris opacis, his membranaceis, pellucido- 

 punctulatis, oblique ovato-oblongis, acumiuatis, basi subae* 

 quali rotundatis vel levissirae cordatis, subquinqae- aut sub- 

 sepluplinerviis, petiolis subtilissime hirtellis, amenlis fructi- 

 feris elongatis tenuibus folium superantibus , bracteis peltatis 

 ciliato-villosis , baccis densiusculis , depresso-globosis glabris, 

 semine conforrai , laevi. 



Habitat in Guiana gallica (Poileau! in Herb. De Less) 



Ramuli nodosi, teretiusculi , laevcs, striulati, in sicco atro-1'usci, 

 atomuliB albis pau<;taliformibus conspcrsi, glabri, internodiis 5 — 7 cent. 



