PLate 2678. 
SAPIUM PCPPIGII, Hemsl. 
Evpuorsiace®. Tribe Crorones, 
Sapium Peppigii, /Zemsl. (sp. nov.) ; similis S. aerei, Klotzsch, ab 
eo recedit foliis elliptico-oblongis levibus supra nitidis. 
Ramuli floriferi meager glabri. Folia omnia in specimine viso 
delapsa, petiolata, coriace ohio onga vel elliptico-oblonga, absque petiolo 
35-5 poll. longa, 14-2 oll. lata, utrinque rotundata, apice glandula 
magna cuculliformi-incrassata introrsum flexa instructa, omnino 
1 hine i duligera, venis primariis numerosis angustis 
utrinque vix el ; petiolus unicus tantum visus semipollicaris, 
ut videtur, breviores. lores sag a quam in speciebus eee 
numerosiores (12-15). Flores masculini 5-7 aggregati. Capsule 
desunt. Sapium biylandulosum, B hamatum, Muell. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1204. 
Sourn America: ‘Peruvia subandina,’ Peppig, 67, in herb. Berol. 
he whole of the material seen of this species consists of three 
flowering ga zi three detached — though they are origi 
as attache the accompanying plate. But t this is the type 
Mueller’s roe poet et B hamatum, - abe se: all that he hod 
under observation.—W. Borring HeMsLE 
Fig. 1, upper side of base of leaf; 2, upper side of apex of leaf; 3. intermediate 
part of flower-spike ; 4, bud of male flower laid open,—dl/ enlarged. 
