593 



ctnlata, utrinque glabra, laete viridia, opaca^ subtiis palli- 

 diora, 2 — 3-pollicaria, 9 — 13 lineas lata. Petioll 3 — 4 

 lineas lougl, semiteretes, vix canaliculati, glabri, nudi. Sti- 

 pulae in apice raraulornm convoluta(3_, lauceolato-snbalatae, 

 curvatae, glabrac, 2 '/2 liucas loiigae. Spicae oppositifo- 

 liac, solitariae, pediinculatao, cyliiidraceae, obtusae, rectiu- 

 sculae, snbere('tac_, 1 1/2 — 2-pollicares, vix crassitie pennae 

 coliiinbiuae; pednnculo 4 — 5 lineas longo, glabro. Bracteae 

 spathnlatap, inferne lineares, ciliatae, apice suborLicuIato-dl- 

 lalatacj cncnllato -concavae, carnosulae et glabratae. Stami- 

 11a clrciter 6, ovario circumposita. Filamenta filiformia, gla- 

 bra. Antherae reniforracs, bilocnlares, flavae; locnlls snb- 

 globoso-cllipticis, secundnm longitudinera deliisccntibus. Ova- 

 rium sessile, ovatnm, liirtellnm. Stigmata 3, sessilia, ab- 

 breviata, obtusa. Fructus parnm approxiraati, sessiies, snb- 

 globoso - ovati, stiginatibus persistentibns coroiiati, teniiis- 

 sime Lirtelli, magnitudine grani siuapis,' ad basin filanieii- 

 torum rudimentis 6 sqnaraaeformibns partim aduatis cincfi 

 piperato-aromatici. Pericarpium crassinscnlum. Semen swb- 

 globoso - elliplicnm, sulcato - pentagouum, laeve, laete fa- 

 scum, 



Piper pyrifolinm ß Opiz in Rel/q. HaenA\ 3, 154. 

 {in Tierb, reg, Berol.) ex Mexico diiTert a siipra dcscripto 

 noniiisi: foliis basi haud revolutis, cuuctis apice miirronu- 

 latis. 



2. EncJcea glauccsccns, 



Ramulis, petiolis foliisque «trinqno glabris, bis oliliqno 

 ovato - oblongis, angnstato - snbacuminalis^ aruniino olitnso, 

 mucronulato, basi iuaeqnalibns_, rotundatis vel acutis, ima 

 basi interdura utrinque revolutis, 5-nerviis, submcmbraua- 

 ceis, subepnuctulatis j glaucescenli-viridilms, opacis ; spicis 

 subcrectis, folium subacquaulibiis; bracleis subrotnudis, cu- 



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