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multiplmervi-costatis , amenlis patentissimis reclis folio | bre- 

 vioribus, bracteis apice cucullato-inflexis ciliolatis, baccis 

 quadra lo-subparallelopipedeis. 



Habitat in Brasilia meridionali, ad Serra de S. Rinaldo (Sel- 

 low ! in Herb, reg. berol.) 



Ramuli teretcs vel obsolete tetragoni ant compressi, striulali villose 

 fusee liirti, sensim g]abriores, internodiis 6—8 cent, longis. Folia 

 subcoriacea , rigida , subtiliter pellucido-punetulata , supra opaca et in- 

 primis supra nervos birtella , sublns juscescentia pilis crispulis dense 

 moUiter tomentoso-birta , nascentia utrinque sericeo-villosa , ovata, inae- 

 quilatera, apice sails subito longiuscule acuminata, acumine obtuso vel 

 acuto, basi inaequali Jato-rotundata, marginibus leviter incurva, 21 — 26 

 cent, longa, 13 — 15 lata, petiolis ^illo^o-birtis canaliculatis basi dilatata 

 amplexicaulilnis (nascentibus basi alalis) 2 — l^re 3 cent, longis sustenta. 

 E nervo medio percurrente subtus promincnte ufrinque 5—7 costae pa- 

 tulo-adscendcntes oriuntur, quarum summa ad | circiter alt. orta ad 

 apicem dacta, inleriores 3 — 4 e basi et parum supra earn ortae, infimac 

 subtiliorcs, omnes anastomosibus parallelis ramosis reliculatis prominen- 

 tibus conjunctae. Stipula opposilifolia decidua lanceolata canali- 

 colata birtella, marginibus glabra, 3 1 cent, longa. Amenta baccifera 

 patentlssima recta cylindrica acutiuscnla 18—24 cent, longa, | fere 

 crassa, peduncnlis 3 — 3| cent, longis Tilloso-hirtellis sustenta. Brac- 

 teae coriaceae pcr.«istcntes apice cuculJato-inllexae rotundatae vel sub- 

 trigonae marginibus pilis sordide llavis rigidiusculis ciliatae. Baccae 

 quadrato-subparallek.piptdcao, laferibus subcomprcssae , vertice truncato- 

 rotundatae, sligmatibus 3 lato lanccolalis divergentibus coronatae vel 

 his deciduis umbilicatae, den.*e hiriclJae (nee glabrae ut apud K.) Peri- 

 carpium vertice crassins. Semen parallelopipedeum angulis rotundatis, 

 compressiusculnm , subscrobiculato-rcticulatum , castaneo-fuscum opacum 

 (sec. sp. cit.) 



20. Artanthe coccoloboldes. Piper Kunth! olim. Stef- 

 fensia ejusd.! in Linnaea I. c. p. fi66. Ramulis peliolis foliis 

 subtus fuliginoso-fusce toraentosis, his coriaceis epunctulatis, 

 supra opacis scabro-hirtellis , ovato-ellipticis inaequilateris, 

 apice vix acuniinatis vel obtusis, basi profunde et valde inae- 

 qualiter cordatis, lobis incumbentibus, costis utrinque usque 

 ad ^ alt. 6 — 8, petiolis membranageo-alatis , pedunculum 

 duplo superantibus, amentis curvatis folio longioribus, bracteis 

 cucullalo-peltatis villoso-fimbriatis, stigmatibus 3 subulatis. 



Habitat in Brasilia raeridionali (Sellow! in Herb, reg, berol.) 



