22 Salomon Henschen, 



III. Specimina Widgreniana (N:o 1252) et Freyreisii, ad Rio de Janeiro 

 lecta, in herb. Holmiens. asservata: "Pep. fle.xicaulis Wawra? {i microphyLla Wawra, 

 CDC. in Prodr. n. 213" a C. de Candolleo, " P. estrellensis CDC. var. distans Miq." 

 a MiQUELio nominata, P. myrtifolice aliam représentant formam, habitu laxiore fo- 

 liisque angustioribus, acutioribus diversam. Cfr. Archiv. 1. c. p. 171. 



3. P. delicatula n. sp. 



P. repens, glaberrima; caulis teretiusculus, siilcatus v. striatus; 

 folia orbicularia, plerumque carnosa, petiolum 2-plo superantia; amenta ter- 

 minalia, solitaria, remotiusculiflora, pedunculiira augulato-sulcatnm, ebra- 

 cteatum, 2 — 3-plo superantia; Ovaria sursum crassiora, obtusa; bacca e basi 

 late ovoidea, oblique acuta, Igevis. 



Descr. Her bula pusilla, repens, truncis arborum arete appressa, 

 ramulis terminalibus erectiusculis, Isete virens, tota glaberrima v. imo alterove 

 pilo ad caulem et folia obsita, habitu Linnœam 6orea^t;m L. pusillam referens. 



Caulis subtilis, filiformis, ramosus, nodis approximatis , conspicue 

 tumescentibus , glaberrimus, pluri-sulcatus v. striatus. 



Folia opposita (v. in apicibus ramulorum verticillis 2-nis confertis 4-na 

 verticillata) , glaberrima v. parcis ciliis minutis prsesertim ad apicem margi- 

 nata, pusilla, orbicularia (v. ovato- v. ovali-orbicularia) , nunc carnosa utrinque 

 convexa, nunc tenuiora supra concaviuscula, utrinque ad lentem fusco- 

 punctata, nervis 3, contra lucem conspicuis v. evanescentibus. 



Petiolus longiusculus, '/2 — Vs folü sequans, semiteres, supra late 

 caualiculatus, ad lentem sulcato-augulatus , glaber. 



Amenta gracilia, terminalia, rarius lateralia, solitaria, filiformia, 

 pedunculis vix crassiora, vix carnosa, eequicrassa, erectiuscula, remotiusculiflora. 



Fed un cuius angulato-sulcatus v. striatus, ebracteatus, longiusculus, 

 amentum sequans v. 2 — 3-plo brevior. 



Flores sessiles, foveolis rhacliis immersi, bracteis peltatis tecti. 



Pistillum crassum, subgequicrassum, utroque obtusura, sœpe lute- 

 scens, torulosum, apice suboblique stigmatifernm , foveolo oblique aftixum. 



Bacca late ovoidea, oblique acuta, patenti-erecta, apice stigmatifera, 

 leevis, basi pseudo-cupulifera , pedicello conico-elongato, exserto oblique 

 demum imposita. 



Bractese caruosulse, demum erecto-patentes. 



Fol. limb. 4 mm. long., 3 — 4 mm. lat.; pet. I'/j— 2 mm.; ament. 15 — 25mm.; 

 pedunc. 5 — 8 mm. 



