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RamiilJ nodos*!, tcretlusculi, glaltri, striali. Folla altor- 

 na, pctiolata, obloiiga, superno p.arum latiorüj acumiuata, 

 ftciiminc miicronato , basi a<'qualia et aciitato-augnstata, rcti- 

 culato - venosa, vcuis primariis iitrinque pluri))us_, tenuibus, 

 patiiliä, nervo niedio subtiis promincule, meraltranacea, pel- 

 lucido-pnnctulata, utriiique glabra, opaca, siibtus vix palil- 

 diora, 4^« poll. longa, 19 — 20 lineas lata. Petioli 5 llueas 

 longi, glabri. Slipulae in apicc ramulorum opposilifollac, 

 magiiac, fuscacj glabrae, snljpoUicares. Spicae oppositifo- 

 liae_, solitariac; jiiTeuiles parvae, breviter peduucnlatae, cy- 

 luidraccac^ apice subulato-rostratae; fructifcrae cylindraccae, 

 rcctae, crassitie peunae scriptoriae, 2 — 2^/2 - poHicares. 

 Fnictus deusi , per quincunccs dIspositi_, sessiles , imraaturi 

 sublurbinati, pressione mntiia trigoni, vertice couvexo glaliri, 

 stigruatlbus 3 persistentibus iimbillcati; niaturi dcprcsso-snb- 

 glpbosi'?, raag.'iitudiue grani Brassicae olcraceae. Bracteae 

 pcliolatae, inllexo-peltatac, seralorbiculari-triangnlares, raar- 

 gine ciliato-finiljiiatae. Semen fructui conforme, laeviuscu- 

 lum', fiiscinn, insipidum. 



Monocca test, Ruiz. et Pav. 



11. ScMllcria acqualis, 



Ramnlis, petiolis foliisqiie ntrinque glabris, his ovali- 

 b«s 5 aciiminatis, basi aequalibus et acutisj membranaceis, 

 cpiinctulatis, opacis ; spicis rectis, folio diiplo triplovc bre- 

 vioribiis, erecliiiseiilis; pcdiiueiilo pdioliiin '/j — y« supoj-an- 

 te; bractois inllexo-pcltatis, ciliato -fimbriatis»; fructibus ob- 

 ovatis, trigonis; somiue icticuiato-scrobiculato, ' nitidulo. 



Piper acquale VahL Eclog. 1. 4. Ejusd, Enum, 

 1. 315. {v, s, in JVaid. herb, n. 649.) Opiz in RcUq, 

 Hacnl', 3, 151. (r. s.) 



Crcscit In Moutserrata, Panama, Quito, Peruvia. 1^. 



