KONGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 33. N:0 2. 115 



3 — 4 fasciculatim congesta, gracilia, vix attenuata, remotiflora, folia aequantia v. paullo 

 superantia, primum erecta, demura squarrosa, saturatc gramineo-viridia, pedunculis seqni- 

 crassis, glabriusculis v. basi praesertim hispidulo-pilosis, petiolura sequantibus v. supe- 

 rantibus. Bractece rotundatiu, demura patentes. Bacca globosa, raatura atroviridis, viscido- 

 papillosa, apice scutulo parvo, concavo, obliquo, postice leviter producto, medio stigmatifero 

 praedita, pseudopedicello exserto, conico demura imposita. 



Distributio geograjjhica: Brasilia, Minas Geraes, Caldas (Lindberg n:o 478 in Hb. Stockholm., Henschen & 

 Regneil n:o III, 1109 in IIb. Stockholm. & n.-o III, 1109 partim in Hb. Ups.), Caldas, Capirary ad 

 truncos emortuos silvae primaeva? (Mosen n:o 1667 in Hb. Stockholm., f. major), Caldas ad truncos 

 putridos silvae primaevse pr. Capirary (Mosen n:o 1669 in Hb. Stockholm., f. minor), Säo Paulo, in 

 cacnmine umbroso montis Serra de Caracol ad terram (Mosen n:o 1666 in Hb. Stockholm. & in IIb. 

 Ups.), Serra de Caracol in terra abrupta subsicca silvae umbrosae (Mosen n:o 1668 in Hb. Stockholm.), 

 Serra de Caracol ad saxa rivuli umbrosi (Mosen, n:o 1670 in Hb. Stockholm.). 



ß Hilariana (Miq.) Dahlst. 



Caule apice et in statu juniore praesertim magis et longius hispido-piloso, sparsim 

 nigropunctulato, stolonibus pilosioribus, foliis praesertim apicein versus crebrius pilosis et 

 eiliatis, subtus + nigro-punctulatis, latioribus, magis ovatis et obtusiusculis, haud aeuminatis, 

 amentis folia a?quantibus v. duplo superantibus baccisque ovato-globosis a forma primaria 

 sat diversa videtur. Variat caule foliisque magis minusve pilosis. 



Distributio geographica: Brasilia (Sellow n:o 1159 in Hb. Berol.), Minas Geraes, Caldas (Kegneil sine 

 nunicro in Hb. Ups. et 1109 partim in Hb. Ups. & in Hb. Stockholm.). 



Diese Sippe ist zweifellos der P. diaphanoides am nächsten verwandt, von der sie 

 sich hauptsächlich durch den gewöhnlich kräftigeren Wuchs und die reichlichere Behaarung 

 an Stengel und Blättern unterscheidet. 



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9. P. Moseuii Dahlst. 



Fig. nostra: Tab. X, fig. 1. 



Caulis sueculentus, basi repens, radicans, teres, costulis duabus parum elevatis 

 instruetus, firraus, undique + pilosus, inferne ruber, e parte inferiore stolones longos, 

 tenues, sparsim v. apice densius pilosos, foliis minirais, orbiculai"ibus, dense pilosis 

 instruetos, apieibus v- hinc inde ex axillis innovationes, ereetas, subsimplices v. apice ramu- 

 losas emittens. Folia pleraque alterna, summa srepius opposita v. subopposita v. etiam, 

 internodiis valde reduetis, subternatiin conferta, inferiora mox deeidua, spathulata v. ellip- 

 tica, obtusa — emarginulata v. breviter acuta, reliqua majora, ovalia — ovato-elliptica 

 v. ovato — elliptico-lanceolata, sa^pe subrhombea et supra medium latiora, medioeriter 

 — longiuscule acuminata, apice ipso obtuso — obtusiusculo, basi subovata — ovato- 

 euneata v. euneata, sicca subcoriacea, supra obscure viridia, juniora ubique densiuscule, 

 adulta ad nervös et ad margines sparsim pilosa, subtus pallide viridia et sparsim — 

 densiuscule, ad nervös sat dense pilosa, pellucido-punctulata, marginibus revolutis vix 



