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lucido-punctulafis, opacis, supra scabris el minute pilosis, 

 subtus moiriler pubescentibus, junioribus in nervis sericeis,' 

 oblique ovalo-oblongis basi inaequali rotundalis, apice acute 

 acurainalis, coslis utrinque 5—7, arnenlis breviter peduncu- 

 lalis cylindricis rectis apice sterili acutis folium subaequanti- 

 bus, pedunculo peliolum paullo superante, bracteis peltatis, 

 ciliato-fimbriatis, baccis lateribus co.npressis subrotundis, se- 

 mine reticulalo-scrobiculato. 



Habitat in Peruvia subandina ad Maynas (Poeppig! in 

 Herb. De Less, et reg. berol. et propr. a el. Kunze c"onim. 

 n. 2290.) 



Frutcx dichotorne ramostis. Rami supcriores ramaliqae exsiccati tri- 

 ve tetragwH, nodosi, pilis retrorsi^ appressis strijj.^loso-.sericei, adsi^ectu 

 suLochracco-grisei. Interntxlia 10-5 cent, longa. Folia patula, mem- 

 branacea, pellucdo-punctulata , petiolis semitcretibus antice canalicula- 

 tis, ^-1 cent longis curvato-erectis strigos(^hirtis (pilis patulis vel sursum 

 direclis) suirulta, oblKiue ovato-elbptica, inaequilatera. We inferiore 

 plerun^que maltum lat.orc, basi inaequali rotundata, apice modice aca- 



eliam), 4-5i supra medium lata, nervo medio utrinque prominente ulin- 

 que usque ad | alt. 5-6 costas parallelas versus margines adscendentes 

 emittente, qnarum suprema usque ad apiccmpercurrit; supra obscura papu- 

 los(vscabra pilisque sparsis appressis sursum direclis albidis adspersa, subtus 

 pbs appressas moU.ter puhescentia, pallicliora, juniora iuprimis i.! nervis 

 sericea. Amenta oppositilblia, erecto-patcntia , pedunculis subappresso- 

 pubescentibus, pdis retrorsis crispulis, cylindrieis l-lj cent. lonris s«s- 

 tenta, recta cylindracea, apice in acmnen breve sterile terminata, Juniora 

 FU Ho curvata, dellorata 10 cent, circiter longa, 2-3 mm. crassa, ad- 

 .pecta sordidc gnsco-iusca. Floras densi subannulatim dispositi. Brae 

 teae carnosae, pdicelJatae, peltatae, pelta subrotunda centro nuda, am- 

 bUac.bato-iimb.ata pilis albicanfbus, demum sordide griseis. Stamina 

 2-3?, hiamentis hneanbus fuscis, antberis sordide luteis subgloboso- 

 «ndorm.bus, biloculanbas, effoetis loculis subrotundis nma cLuIari. 

 St.gmata tna subulata revoluta. Eaccae in.maturae subralundne, a 

 a enbus compreasae, stigmatum cicatrice umbdicatae, apice glanduloie, 



^^Z I'TT T"- '''"'^" ^°"*°^"'''' reticulatLrobicuIa- 

 tum (sec. sp Hb. De Uss.) - I„ sp. Hb. berol. costae utrinque 5-7. 



Piper dichotomnm Poepp.i fbrmam sistit Ibliis mboribus glabriori- 

 bus et ramus asjjens distmctissimam. 



74. Artanthe moHlcoma. Piper acuttfoUum Hort. lie 

 roU ohm, Ptper mollicomum Kunth! olim. Steffemia mollh 



