KONGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND. 33. N:0 2. 117 



v. 20, p. 123, 1847. — P. punctata Reg. in Bull. Acad. Mose, p. 543, 1858. — Piper 

 trinerve Vahl. Enum. PL, v. 1, p. 342, 1804. 



Fig.: Ruiz & Pav. 1. c, Tab. 50, fig. b.; Miq. Illustr., T. 8, fig. a. 



Caulis erectus, sueculentus, basi radicans, inferne stolones foliis minutis, bractei- 

 formibus v. apice parvis, subrotundatis instruetos, dense pilosos edens, sparsim pilosus 

 v. in statu juniore et locis siccioribus dense hirtus, glandulis atro-fuscis punetatus, reotus, 

 apice flexuosus, simplex v. (s«pe a basi) raraosus, inferne defoliatus, sursum dense foliosus. 

 Folia alterna, conferta, sueculenta, sicca membranacea, supra saturate viridia, subtus 

 pallidiora, juniora margines versus pilis adpressis sensim deeiduis vestita, supra etiam ad 

 nervös et margines pilifera, marginibus + dense ciliolata, utrinque nigro-glandulose 

 punctata, petiolis longis, 2 — 3-tiam partem laminaj aequantibus, late canaliculatis, prirnum 

 ciliatis, deinde subglabratis, rotundato-ovata — elliptica v. elliptico-lanceolata, saepe sub- 

 rhombea, supra medium latiora, acuta — breviter et abrupte v. medioeriter acuminata, 

 basi rotundato- v. cuneolato-ovata, 3 — 5-nervia, nervo niedio percurrente, infimis latioribus 

 fere ad apicem duetis. Amenta axillaria solitaria et terminalia, 2 — 5 conferta, saepe divari- 

 cata — ereeta, filiformia, reeta, sicca e glandulis nigris et bracteis obscuris adspectu nigri- 

 cantia, folia 3 — 4-plo superantia, peduneulis hirtellis petiolos fere aequantibus sustenta. 

 Bractea? subsessiles, glabrse, subrotundatte, nigras, fusco-marginatae. Ovarium ovale, apice 

 suboblique stigmatiferum. Bacca ignota. 



Distributio geographica: Peruvia in Andium nemoribus (Ruiz et Pav. in Hb. Willd. n:o 724 et in Hb. 

 Berol.), ad Sangari (in Hb. Gris.). — Brasilia (Glaziou n:o 2913 in Hb. Hafn.), Rio de Janeiro in 

 rupibus humidis silvarum pr. Mandioccam (»P. caulibarbis ß nilosior Miq.», Mart. Her Bras. in Hb. 

 Monac, Steven n:o 1820 in Hb. DC). — Nova Hispania (Pav. in Hb. Boiss. sec. C. DC). — 

 Venezuela ad Maya alt. 3000 (Fcndler, in Hb. DC). 



ß glabricaulis Dabist. 



A forma primaria- omnium partium glabritie, marginibus folioruin praesertim apicem 

 versus subdense ciliatis diversa. Ceterum caule erecto, apice dense folioso, inferne radi- 

 cante, ut in f. primaria stolonifero, foliorum forma et nervatura nee non dispositione 

 amentorum cum f. primaria congruit. Glabritie foliisque dense atro-punetatis ad P. nigro- 

 punetatam accedit et ei affinitatem praebet. 



Distributio geographica: Peruvia, La Banza (Th. Hsenke comm., in Hb. Monac ). 



12. P. caulibarbis Miq. 



Syst. p. 98, 1843; Miq. in Linntea v. 20, p. 123 (excl. var.), 1847; Miq. in Mart. 

 Fl. Bras. fasc. XI, p. 12, 1852; C. DC Prodr. 16: 1, p. 409, 1869. — P. brachyphylla 

 f. oblongifolia Wawra Bot. Ergebn., p. 132, 1866. 



Fig.: Wawra 1. c. T. 82, fig. 2. 



