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acnmine lato ct obtaso, 13-17 cent, longa, 5-6 lata; e nervo medio 

 prominente percurrente utriiique secundum totara lon^itudincm plerum- 

 7 costae adscendentes prominentes oriuntur, quaram surnrna tenuior prope 

 apicem orta asqne ad eum percurrit; reliqnae omnes paralleJae altc versus 

 margines percurrunt; infima reliquis multo tenuiorcs brevioresque. Anas- 

 . tomoses transversae subtilissimae vix prominulae. Stipula oppositi- 

 loha Jmeari-convoluta. curvata, glabra, vix 1 cent, longa. Amentum 

 Talde raaturum subpatulnm subrectura pcdunculo 1 cent. longo .^labro 

 sustentum, 6 cent, fere longum, 3 mm. crassam, obtusum, adspectu 

 sordide gnseo-fuscum puberulum. Bractea apice inflexa subconchaeformi- 

 concavmscula, gnseo-ciliata , vertice truncate subsemilunaris sed in ma- 

 ture amento baud bene conspicienda. Baccae densissimae, obpyramida^ 

 tae, tngonae, vertice truncate apiculato grisco-birtellae. Semen con- 

 forme fuse am. (sp. sp. Sieb.). 



Specimen yahiii paullo magis juvenile differt foliis magis membrana- 

 naceis, quibusdam basi obtusis, 15 cent, longis, 5i— 7 Jatis. 



163. Artanthe colabrina. Piper Link! Jahrb. Tom. 

 III. p. 61. Enum. Hon. Berol. Tom. I. p. 37. Schilleria 

 Kunth! tn Linnaea I. c. p. 685. Piper impunctatum mild.! 

 Herb. n. 645. Link Jahrb. I. c. p. 63. ^Foha certo glanduloso- 

 punctulata.) Piper Willdenowii Kunth! in Herb. fFilld. Ra- 

 mulis petiolis foliisque utrinque glabris, his menibranace'is 

 obsolete pellucido-puiiclulatis, supra subnitidis, oblongis bre- 

 Tiler acurainatis, basi subinaequalibus et aculis, costis majo- 

 nbus utrinque cireiter 7, amentis erectis (pedunculo petiolum 

 paullo superante) cylindricis subreclis vel leviler curvatis 

 obtusis, bracleis inflexo-pel talis, hirto-villosis, baccis obovalo' 

 cuneatis, tr.gonis, vertice truncate umbonalo, glabris, seraine 

 conforrai. 



Herb. Willd. 1. c. 



Habitat in Brasilia ineridionali , prope Rio Janeiro (Gaud.! 

 in Herb. De Less. n. 86.), inter Vitioriam et Bahiam (Sellow! 

 in Herb. reg. berol.) 



Caulis teste iink variegatus; rami dichotomi teretes uno latere pla- 

 nmscu],, nodosi flezuos.; mternodia 5-11 cent, longa; ramuli suban- 



!btL"T^; • ''''' '''"''-' '-'^^'^^ -'^^' -mbranacea, 

 ! Jt P^"""^'*-!;""^.^;.*^' "*-q- g'abra ct glandulis exiguis punctuli- 

 iorm,bas flans pelluc.d.s conspersa, supra submtida vel obscura et tunc 

 attactu lev,ss.me scabnuscula, subtus pallidiora subnitidula, petiolis 1 

 cent, crater long.s glabns a„t,ce canaliculatis sustenta, oblonra, plus 



