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percurrente subtus prominente atrinqae usque ad | alt. a basi i costae parallele 

 adscendentes subtus promincntes oriuntur, quarum infima subtilis, summa 

 ad apicem ducta. Anastomoses subpatulae baud prominulae. Stipula 

 oppositifolia lanceolata decidaa, navicularis, convoluta membranacea 

 plabra, 2 cent, longa leviter curvata. Amenta baccilera erecto-patula, 

 recta, cylindrica, obtusa 4| — 6 cent, longa, 5 mm. crassa, versus apicem 

 panllo attenuata, pedunculis 1 cent, loiigis crassiusculis glabris sustenta. 

 Baccae annalatim dispositae bracteas paullo superantes. Bracteae pe- 

 dicellatae, cucuUato-peltatae, pclta triangular! vel semicirculari margine 

 pilis lutescentibus villoso-fimbriala, Baccae obovato-subquadratae, versus 

 basin compressae, verlice convexo-truncato umbonato glabro. Semen 

 pericarpio crassinsculo adhaerens subquadratum , lenticulari-compressum, 

 obsolete umbonatum, castaneo-fuscum, opacum (sec. sp. Herb. reg. bcrol.) 

 Habitus fere A. rivinoidis. An recte hie coUocata? 



51. Artanthe populifolia. Piper Kunth olim; hand 

 Opts. Schilleria Kunth in Linnaea I. c. p. 709. Piper Kun- 

 thianum Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2. Ramulis foliisque glabris, his 

 membranaceis, obsolete pellucido-punctulatiS; subrotundo-ovatis 

 leviter cordatis acurainatis sub-ll — 13-nerviis, amentis rectis 

 folio 3 brevioribus, bracteis vertice truncato-triangularibus ci- 

 lialis, stigmalibus 3? subulatis, baccis obovatis trigonis, seinine 

 subtilissime scrobiculato. 



Habitat in Brasilia meridionali (Sallow apud Kuuth 1. c.) 

 Frntex. Rami nodosi, exsiccati angnlati, laeves, glabri, internodiis 

 6—9 cent, longis. Folia membranacea, obsolete pellucido-punctulata, 

 utrinquc glabra, supra (siccatione ?) punctulis pluribus minutissimis albi- 

 di? irregularibus saepe confluentibus obsita, subrotundo-ovata, leviter cor- 

 data, apice acuminata, acumine obtusiusculo, costis utrinque 7 — 8 ner- 

 voque medio subtus promincntibus, inlerioribus valdc approximatis , unde 

 lolia sub-ll— 13-nervia, 18— 20J cent, longa, 14—18 lata, petiolis 

 glabris f — 1 cent, longis. Stipulae oppositii'oliae lanceolatae, lateribus 

 involutae, glai)rac, 3 cent, superantes. Amenta tructilera recta, cylin- 

 drica, 15J cent, longa, pennam scriptoriam tenuiorem crassa, pedunculo 

 glabro 3 cent, longo sustenta. Bracteae lineari-spathulatae, vertice trun- 

 cato-triangulares, ciliatac. Antherae renilbrmes, filamentum termi- 

 nantcs, l)iloculares, vix apiculatae. Baccae rhachin dense obtegentes, 

 distinctae, solubiles, obovatae, trigonae, apice truncato-rotundatae, stig- 

 mate tripliei?, subulato recurvato coronatae, inagnitudine grani minoris 

 tapaveris, Pericarpium tenuc. Semen conforme, obovatum, inaequa- 

 litcr triangulare, vel turgide lenticulare, apice truncato-rotundatum, ob- 

 solete apicatuiii , sul)tilissimc scrobiculatum , castaneo-t'uscum , opacumr 

 Albumen i'arinoso-corncum. albidom (ex Kunth.) 



