178 II. DAIILSTEDT. STUDIEN ÜBER SÜD- UND CENTRALAMEKIKAN1SCIIE PEFER0M1EN. 



dense (praesertira nascentia), breviter — longiuscule pubescentia, supra glabra v. basi 

 apiceque puberula, petiolo c. 1 — 2 mm. longo, breviter — longiuscule et ± dense pube- 

 scente. Amentum terminale, sat gracile, 10 — 20 mm. longura, pedunculo + dense v. spar- 

 siiu pubescente, 10 — 15 mm. longo. Rachis dense pubescens. Bractea parva, c. 0,3 mm. 

 lata, orbicularis, pallide rufescens. Bacca ovato-cylindrica, apice in appendicem brevem, 

 suinmo apice stigmatiferam protracta, basi pseudocupula cincta. 



Distributio geographica: India orientalis (Wiglit n:o 2549 p.p. in Hb. Berol. et in Hb. Gris. nee non in 

 Hb. Stockholm.). — Nepalia, in Monte Kahsia in regione tropica ad 4 — 6000' (Hook, et Thomson in 

 Hb. Gris. & in Hb. Berol.; Wallich n:o 6664 A in Hb. Berol.). — Bengalia orientalis (Griffith, 

 Herb, of the East India Company, n:o 4933 p.p. in Hb. Stockholm., in Hb. Hafn. & in Hb. Gris.); 

 circa Kathmandu in Central-Hiinalaya 5000 — 7000' (Herb. Scblagintweit from India and High Asia, 

 n:o 13054 in Hb. Stockholm.); in Kamoon in montibus Sillet et in monte Dindygul (Wight, Wallich 

 n:o 6664 D in Hb. Hafn.); in mont. Nilgherries Ind. or. (Perottet n:o 111 in Hb. de Less. sec. Miq.); 

 Sikkiru alt. 4—7000 p. (Hook. & Thomson in Hb. Gris. et in Hb. Berol.). 



£ pusilla (Blume) C. DC. 



P. reflexa Dietr. * pusilla C. DC. Prodr. 16: 1, p. 451. — P. reflexa Dietr. /. ja- 

 vanica Miq. Syst. Pip., p. 172. — Piper pusillum Blume in Verh. Bot. Genoots. T. XI, 

 p. 232; Blume Enuin. PI. jav. fasc. I, p. 76. — Micropiper pusillum Miq. Comm. 

 Phyt. p. 62. 



Caulis gracilis, rainosus, glaber v. superne puber ulus v. totus leviter puberulus. 

 Folia plerumque rotundato-elliptica v. subrhombea — ovalia v. obovato-rotundata, medio- 

 criter v. plerumque sat longe petiolata, utrinque + rotundato-obtusa, glabra, petiolo 

 subtiliter pubescente. Amentum terminale, 15 — 20( — 25) mm. longum, suberassiusculum, 

 pedunculo 5 — 15 mm. longo, quam amentum nunc breviore nunc paullo longiore, + 

 pubescente v. inferne glabriusculo, superne puberulo. Rachis pubescens. Bractea parva, 

 pallida, vix 0,5 mm. lata, orbicularis. Bacca parva, subovoidea, apice appendice sat brevi, 

 stigmatifera aueta, basi pseudocupula cincta. 



Variat: 



a. Gaule glabriusculo, petiolis subtilissime puberulis. 



1. Foliis magis rotundatis v. ovato-rotundatis — obovatis, majoribus v. 

 minoribus, petiolis longiusculis. 



Distributio geographica: India orientalis (Wight n:o 2549 p.p. in Hb. Stockholm, et in Hb. Berol. p.p. nee 

 non in Hb. Gris. p.p.; Schmied p.p. in Hb. Berol.); Sikkim in reg. trop. alt. 4 — 7000' (Hook. & 

 Thoms. in Hb. Berol., in Hb. Hafn. et in Hb. Stockholm.); in monte Kahsia in reg. trop. alt. 4 — 6000' 

 (Hook. & Thoms. in Hb. Berol.); Manipur in accensu a Keilamalie ad convallem Kupra (Watts. 

 n:o 0006 in Hb. Berol.). — Java (Nagel n:o 70 in Hb. Berol.; Schmidt in Hb. Berol.; Zollinger 

 n:o 1985 in Hb. Berol.). 



2. Foliis longioribus, magis ovalibus — ■ subrhombeo-ovalibus, basi apiceque 

 + contractis, plerumque majoribus, brevius petiolatis. 



