38 Salomon Henschen, 



15. P. increscens Miq. 



P. erecta, simplex, rarius superne parce ramosa, dense pubcscens; 

 caulis teres; folia 2 opposita, breviter petiolata, obovato- v. ovali-rhüin- 

 bea, inferiora minora rotnndata, novissima ovata, superiora nervis 3, subtus 

 prominulis; amenta terminalia, 3, filiformia, remotitlora, pedunculum tere- 

 tem multoties superantia, crassitie pedunculi; pistilhun sursum incrassatum; 

 bacca subglobosa. 



Descr. Herba spithamea, superne rarius opposite ramosa, ramis 

 simplicibus, ad basin stoloues breves proferens, tota (excepto amento), prse- 

 sertim caulis, densius pubescens v. hirsuta, sicca nigrescens. 



Caulis firmiusculus, teres, succulentus, sicut foliorum inferiorura 

 pagina infera, sœpe ruber. 



Folia opposita (v. summa 4-na, verticillis 2 confluentibus), inferiora 

 orbiculata v. obovato-rotnndata, apice saîpe retusa, superiora nunc subrbom- 

 bea, nunc latissime ovalia v. latissime obovata, basi rotundata v. late cu- 

 neata, apice obtusiuscula, novissima 2 — 4 ovata, saipe apice subattenuata, 

 utrinque pilis articulatis densius pubescentia, inferiora carnoso-crassa, plano- 

 V. coucavo-convexa, nervis plantse vivfe vix conspicuis, superiora tenuiora, 

 3-nervia, nervis supra subimpressis, subtus crasso-prominulis, medio per- 

 currente, reticulo conspicuo. 



Petiolus brevis, semiteres, supra concaviusculus , '/3 — V4 folii me- 

 tiens, dense pubescens. 



Amenta erecta, terminalia, ssepissime 3 (nnum vere terminale, axil- 

 laribus 2 junioribus brevioribus circumdatis), longa filiformia, subfequi- 

 crassa, glabra, fusco-punctata. 



Pis till um e basi ovoidea in discum obliquum, crassum, in centre 

 stigmatiferum incrassatum. 



Bacca matura ellipsoideo-globosa, scutulo parvo, obliquo, stigmatifero 

 mucronata, pedicello conico denique imposita, dense papilloso-glutinosa. 



Fol. limb. 20 — 25 mm. long., 15— 20 mm. lat.; pet. 4— 5 mm.; ament. 90— 100 mm.; 

 pedunc. 10 — 15 mm. 



Syn. P. increscens Miti. in Linnrea Band XX. p. ]24. 



P. Langsdorf'fii MiQ. var. increscens Mia. in Mart. Fl. liras. 1. c. p. 13; CDO. in 

 Prodrom. 1. c. p. 444. 

 Fig. Nostra Tab. IV. fig. 1. 



Exs. III. 1429 (specim. descr.) in lierb. Holmiens. (ex Herb, brasil. Regnelli) : "Pep. hatigs- 

 dorfii MiQ. p' increscens CDC. in Prodr. v. IG, 1 n. 362" n C. de (!andolleo, "P. 



