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naceo-coriacea , subtililer pellacido-punctata , supra saturate viridia opaca 

 glabra, vetustiora nervis lineata et subbullosa, subtas pallidiora glabra 

 vel in nervulis versus marfjincs ad leulem Ibrtiorem subtilissimis pilis 

 coDspersa (hinc explicatnr quod cl.K. I.e. inuotainonet) subrotundo-ovata, 

 inaequilatera , modice acuminata, acumine acutiusculo, marginibus leviter 

 revoluta, basi lere aequali cordate, lobis rotundatis patulis, cxtimo paullo 

 latiorc, 16| cent, longa, 12 — 14 lata, peliolis antice canaliculatis nudis 

 glabris 4 — 7 cent, longis sustenta. E nervo tnedJo subtus inprimis versus 

 basin prominente utrinque e basi 4 costae et sLalim supra cam quinta, 

 et sexta ad f vel | alt. oriunlur, omnes versus marines patulo- 

 adscendentes, anastornosibus subliorizontalibus rcticulatis subprominulis 

 junctae. Stipula opposii ifolia decidua lanceoJata, convoluta, glabra, 

 1 cent, circiter longa. Amenta juniora erecta, reef a, cybndrica, obtusa 

 8 — 10 cent, longa, 2 mm. crassa. pediinculo 1 cent, circiter Jongo gla- 

 bro. Bracteae juveniles coriaceae, breves, cueullato-peltatae, vertice 

 subrotundae glabrae, subtus viJlo!-ae, marginibusque subtilissime ciliolatae. 

 Filamenta linearia, cotnplanata, aatbe-ae sordide luscae ovatae, ob- 

 tusac, biloculares, connectivo versus basin antlierae incrassato. Ovarium 

 glabrum, stigma tibus 3 elongato-filiibrmibus, erectiusculis, apice recnr- 

 vatis (sec. sp. cit.) 



11. Artanthe plantaginea. Piper Schlechtend! in Lin- 

 naea Tom. VI p. 35.3 excl, syn. Steffensia Kunth! ibid. Tom. 

 XIIL p. 672. Piper commutatum Sleud. IVomencl. Ramis fo- 

 liisque utrinque glabris, his longiuscule peliolalis subcoriaceis, 

 obsolete pellucido-punctatis opacis ovatis 5ubaequilateris, basi 

 rotundatis vel sabcordutis, apice acuuiinalis, septem-novem- 

 nerviis, petiolis basi membranaeeo-alatis, aineiilis elongalis 

 subrectis, bracleis cucuUatu-pellatis, semiorbicularibus ciliatu- 

 fimbriatis, baccis subobovato-quadralis, lateribus subcompres- 

 sis, sligraatibus 5 coronatis. 



Habitat in Mexico ad Paponelto (Schiede! in Herb. reg. 

 Berol.), ibidem in Cordilleris ad 3000 alt. rarissima (Galeolli! 

 in Herb. De Less. a. 6013 ) 



Frutex dichotome ramosus, ramis raraulisqae subtcretibus nodosis 

 glabris, juvenilibus uno latere compressis; internodia 4 — 6 cent, longa. 

 Folia longiuscule petioJata patula, subcoriacea, subtiliter pellueido-punc- 

 tata, utrinque glabra, supra lacte viridia sub3bscnra nervis sublineata, 

 subtus pallidiora parumper nitidula, peliolis 2 — 4 cent. longis , glabris, 

 canaliculatis, praesertim versus basin membrana striata vaginante auctis 

 sustenta, lato-ovata, subaequilatcra, basi aequali rotundata vel obiter 

 TOrdata, apice recto acuminata, acumine ipso acutiusculo, 8^—12 cent. 



