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recto latiusculo obtasiusculo, acuminato-submucronato, basi inacqnalia et 

 •rotundata, tl cent, circiter longa, 5 lata, petiolis antice canaliculatis, 

 dense pubescenti-hirtis , 4 mm. longis, sustenla. E nervo medio subtus 

 prominente et percnrrente utrinque infra J alt. 4—5 costae parallele ad- 

 sccndentes oriuutur, subtus prominentes, supra prominulae, quarum 

 infima subtilissima, summa ad apiccra ducta, ooincs anastomosibus hori- 

 zontalibus Iransversis prominulis reticulatis jun(^tae. Stipula opposi- 

 tifolia caduca, lanceolata acuminata? dorso hirtella. Amenta erec- 

 tiusoula, cylindrica (in supp. cassa, ex kunteio an recte vix sesqui- 

 pollicaria?) 2 J mm. crassa, pedunculo 7 mm. longo, villoso-piloso 

 sustcnta. Floras dense et annulatim dispositi. Bracteae persistentes, 

 pediccllalae , apice inflexo-pellatae , peltae vertice triangulari marginihus 

 ciliato-fimbriato. Stamina 4, filamen tis persistentibusfilitbrmibns, fus- 

 cis, antheris subreniformibus bilocularibus flavis. Ovarium obovato- 

 globosum, glabrum, glandulosum, stigmatibns tribns subulatis longius- 

 culis puberulis recurvatis. Baccae obovatae, trigonae, vertice rotundato 

 concaviusculae glabrae pnnctatae. Semen conlbrme subtilissime scrobi- 

 culatum, castaneo-fuscum , nitidulum. (sec. sp. Humboldt. Herb. Willd.) 



110. Artanthe ulmlfoUa. Schilleria Kunth! in Lin- 

 naea I. c. p. 698. Piper dilatatum Richard! in Act. Soc. Hist, 

 nat. par.; Reichenb.! nomen in Sieb. Flor. Trinitat. n. 18. 

 P. auritum Sieber! Heib. Martinic. n. 7. Raraulis junioribus 

 sparsissime pilosiuscuHs, foliis membranaceJs subtilissime pel- 

 Incido-punctalis, utrinque praesertim in nervo et coslis pilis 

 sparsissirais sensini deciduis ob>ilis, supra deraum glabralis 

 nitidulis, subtus glauco-nilentibus, late et oblique ellipticis 

 Tel subovatoellipticis, acuminatis, basi plus minus inaequali- 

 bus el subcordatis, coslis utrinque 6-7, araenlis erectiusculis 

 folio niullura brevioribus, pedunculo petiolo parum breviore, 

 bracteis inflexo-peltatis villoso-ciliatis. 



Habitat in insula Trinitalis (Sieber! J. c. in Herb. De less, 

 et reg. berol ), in insula Martinica (Sieber! I. c. n. 7 in Herb, 

 ber.), in sylvis Gouadaloupe (Perrottel!), Ind.occid. (Ponthieu! 

 in Herb. De Less. Guyana gallic. (Lcblond! in Herb. Be Less, 

 n. 234.) 



Fmtex. Ramuli teretiusculi , sicci sulcato-angulosi, ad lenlem minute 

 luberculosi; jumores pilis raris patulis obsiti; internodia 6 cent, circiter 

 longa. Folia erecto-patula, tcnuiter mcmbranacea, subtilissime peJluci- 

 do-punrtata, supra mtzdula laevia saturate viridia, subtus glauconitidala, 

 inpnmis n. nervo ct costis sparsissime pubcrula, supra dein glabrala. 



