42 Salomon Henschen, 



foliis latioribus; utiamqiie locis supra citatis legimus. C. de Candollecs et JIiquelius 

 in his formis describendis inter se plane discrepant. 



18. P, augescens Miq. 



P. erectiuscula, 2-spitliamea, subsimplex, e basi longe stoloiiifera, 

 glabra; caiilis teres; folia alterna, ovata v. ovato-lanceolata longiu- 

 scule acurainata (inferiora et stolonum latiora, snbrotutulata, plana), crassi- 

 uscula, subcoriacea (sicca coriacea), nervis 3 (3 — 5), crassis, subtus 

 elevatis, jam e basi folii diverg entibus; amenta terrainalia v. sub- 

 terminalia 1 — 2, longissima, filiformia, peclunculum teretem miiltoties siipe- 

 rantia, floribus ssepissime in anulis remotiiisculis dispositis; pistilliira 

 prsecedentis; bacca globosa, oblique acurainata; bractese subappressaî. 



Descr. Herba adraodum variabilis, ly, — 4-S2iithamea, erectiuscula, 

 e parte inferiore radicante stolones longos, ex apicibus innovationes erectas 

 evolventes, emittens, subsimplex v. sursura ramos parcos proferens, glabra, 

 firmo-coriacea. 



Caulis teres, costulis 2 parum elevatis instructus, firmus, inferne, 

 sicut foliorura pagina infera, ruber. 



Folia alterna, caulina forma variant: superiora nunc late ovata — 

 ovato-lanceolata, nunc elliptica, apice nunc acuminata, nunc acuta v. obtusiu- 

 scula, basi rotundata v. attenuata (sicca plerumque contracta angustiora, 

 margine revoluta), inferiora latiora, magis obtusa, stolonum subrotundata v. 

 obovato-rotundata , apice acuta, obtusiuscula v. emarginata, crassiuscula, plana, 

 nervis 3 (3 — 5) supra impressionibus notatis, subtus elevatis, medio percur- 

 rente, lateralibus 2 apicera versus evanescentibus, glabra, apiccm versus 

 ciliolata, utrinque ad lentem fusco-puncticulata. 



Pe tio lu s supra canaliculatus. 



Amenta terminalia v. subterminalia 1 — 2 et axillaria solitaria, cras- 

 sitie pedunculi, puncticulata. 



Flores immersi, approximati, bracteis minoribus, crassiusculis tecti. 



Pistillum e basi ovoidea, apice in discum obliquum, stigmatiferum 

 incrassatum. 



Bacca scutulo oblique acuminata, papilloso-viscida, globosa, pedi- 

 cello non exserto imposita. 



Fol. limb. 40 — 50 mm., rarius ad 100 mm. long., 20 mm., rarius ad 50 mm. lat.; 

 pet. 8 — 10 mm.; ament. 150 — 200mm.; peduiic. 15 — 20 mm. 



