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bus ochraceo-fimbrialis, baccis obpyramidato-telragonis a latere 

 compressis, verlice rotundalo-convexo rubiginoso-hirtis , se- 

 mine conformi verlice concavo albioante mucronulato^ cunea- 

 tim corapresso subtetragono plumbeo. 



Habitat in insula Portorico (Wydler ! n. 321 in Herb. De 

 Less.), St. Domingo (C. Ehrenberg! in Herb. reg. berol. et 

 Meisn.) 



Fratex. Rami semitereti-trigoni, uno latere coaveriusculi , tasci, 

 nitiduli, striulati , glabri, ramali sparse piWi. Internodia 3—5 cent, 

 longa. Folia erecto-patula , membranacea pellucido-punctulata, supra 

 atro-viridia, nitentia , laevissima , glabra , subtus subluscenti-glauca ni- 

 tidula, in nervo costis venulisque piloso-hirtella, ad lentern glandalis 

 elevatis punctata, petioJis hirteJlis antice profunde canalicuiatis, tere- 

 tiusculis, 1 cent, vix longis sustenta , subobliqua, pamm inaequiiatera 

 (latere sapriore medio latiore sed versus basin paullo resecto), ovato-lan- 

 ceolata vel elongato-oblongo-ovata , basi Jiaud multum inacqualia obtasa 

 vol acutiuscula, inde a medio sensim angustata et versus apicem longe 

 acuminata , acumine falcatim ieviter cur vato acutissirao , 19 — 23 cent, 

 longa , 7 lata; e nervo medio percmrente subtus prominente usque citra 

 f alt. utrinque 5 circiter costae altemae majusculae(tenuiores horizontales 

 numerosissimae) versus margines adscendentes, quarum infimae 2 tenues 

 marginales, samma ad apicem usque percurrens juxta uJtimos acuminis 

 margines , reliquae tbrtiores , omnes anastomosibus horizontdibus promi- 

 nulis reticnlatisque j unctae in sicco nigricanti-luscae. Stipulaoppositi- 

 folia lanceolata curvata complanata, dorso hirtella, 1 cent, circiter longa. 

 Amenta erecta pedunculis pubcrulis cito glabratis 4 mm. circiter longis 

 sustenta, cylindrica, recta, 5 cent, circiter longa, floreatia 2 mm. crassa 

 ochracea, baccilera 3 mm. crassa et crassiora, tota rubiginoso-hirta. Brac- 

 teae carnosae, snbinflexo-peltatae, vertice subsemicirculares glabrae, am- 

 ktu villoso-hirtae , pilis otJiraceis, persistentes , demum inter baccas 

 subcompressae. Stamina 3? lilamcntis teretibus, antheris luscis re- 

 nilbrmibus majusculis. Ovarium obovatum , puberulum , stigmata 

 3—4 subterctia erecta brevia. Baccae obovatae irregulariter tetragonae 

 vertice rotundato concaviusculo rubiginoso-hirtae, centro umbonatae nudae 

 e stigmatibus lapsis nigro-verrucosae. Semen inunaturum plumbemn a 

 kteribus cuneatim compressum , inaequaliter tetragonum , basi compres- 

 sissima emarginatum, vertice concavo albido mucrunulatum , iiitidulum. 

 (sec. sp. Hb. De Ix'ss,) 



128. Artanthe trichostachya. Piper citrifolium Lam. 

 teste Desfont. in lib. ffilld. Piper longicuspe WilldJ P. rugo- 

 sum Vahl teste Steud. Raniulis petiolis foliisque subtus inpri- 



