449 



85. Artanthe adunca Miq. Comm. phytogr. p. 49, 

 Piper longum, fol. nerv. pallide virid., humilius Shane Nat. 

 Hist. Jam. I p. 135. Saurtirus foliis ovato-lanceol. nervis alt. 

 Linn. Hort. Cliff, p. 140. Herb. Burnt.! Saurur. arb. fructu 

 adunco Plumier Amer. p. 5^. Piper aduncum Linn. Sp. pi. 

 Fl. Jamaic. in Amoen. Acad. F p. 375. Meyer Prim. Esseq. 

 p. 15. P. arborescens Mill. Did. E. Meyer in JVov. Act. 

 Leop. Tom. XI p. 774. P. scabrum Lam. Illustr. Gen. Tom. 

 I p. 80. P. lanceolatum Salzmann! in Herb. De Less. Stef- 

 fensia adunca Kunth! in Linnaea I. c. p. 633. Ramis ramu- 

 lisque stiiatis aspero-verruculoso punctulatis, junioribiis ap- 

 presse hispidulis, foliis Lreviler peliolalis, rigido-raembianaceis 

 pellucido-punctulatis, supra opacis scabriusculis, subtus pallidis 

 puberulis, lato-oblongis vel (sumrais) sublanceolato-oblongis, 

 plus minus inaequilateris , acuminalis, basi leviter iiiaequali 

 rotundatis, lineato-raulti-(6— 7) costatis, amenlis erectiusculis 

 folio brevioribus, falcatim curvalis, pedunculo petioluiu quater 

 vel quinquies superante, bracleis peltatis, ciliato-fimbriatis, 

 baccis obovato-tetragonis, vertice subrotundatis, semine con- 

 formi leviter areolato. 



Icon. Sloane I. c. Tab. LXX fig;. 2. Plumier 1. c. Tab. 77. Jacf[. Icon. 

 II Tab. 210. 



Herb. WilW. n. 663' 



Habitat per majorem partem Americae calidioris, inprirais 

 ut videtur in provinciis orienlera spectantibus , in insulis In- 

 diae occidentalis, v. c. in Jamaica (Hb. De Less.!), Portoricco 

 (Wydler! ibid.), in Surinarao (Iloslmann apud Meyer 1. c. 

 Focke! in Herb, propr., Weigelt! in Herb. reg. ber. et Meisii.), 

 in convallibus Bahiae (Salzm.! in Herb. De Less.), in Brasilia 

 (Sellow! in Herb. reg. ber.), Valencia (Moritz! ibid.), caet. 



Usns. Amenta bujus et nonnullarum aliarum eodem mode ac Piper 

 longum sapore aeri vellicante insignia sunt et in BrasiUensiura medicina 

 asitantur. . 



Frutex elatior, ramosissimus, ramis subflexuosis teretibus, ramulis- 

 que parumpcr compressis, nodosis, junioribus subhispidulo-scabris, adultis 

 Diinute tubcrculato-punctatis, vel sublaevigatis, intcrnodiis 5 — 6 cent, 

 longis vel longioribus. Folia breviter petiolata, petiolis tenuiuscalis 

 scraiteretibos, antice canaliculatis, basi dilatata nodum fere amplectenti- 

 ous, 1 cent, circiler longia sustenta, rigido-membranacea , pcllucido-punc- 



