c. S.UNTH. — Sur les Pipéracées. 1 85 



3. Enckea discolor. 



Ramulis, petiolis foliisque utrinquc glabris, oblique elliptico-oblongis, longe 

 dcumina'is, acumine obtuso, basi inaequalibus el rotundatis ibique haud revo- 

 lutis, 5-nerviis, membranaceis, densissime et obsolète pellucido-punctulatis ; 

 satiate viridibus opacis, snblus pallidioribus ; spicis tenuissimis, laxifloris , fruc- 

 tiferis folio \ brevioribus ; bracteis subrotundis, cucullato-concavis, basi subti- 

 lissime hirtellis; stigmatibus 3, abbreviatis ; fructibus reniotiusculis, subclavalo- 

 oblongis, obtusis, umbonatis, obsolète pentagonis glabris ; semine sulcato-penta- 

 gono. 



Piper discolor Schlechtend. in Linnsea 5 , jl\ (v. s. in Herb. reg. Berol.). 

 Hort. Bot. Berol. 1 83g. 



Crescit in Regno Mexicano. 5. 



4- Enckka blattarum. 



Ramulis junioribus petiolisque subtilissime hirtellis ; foliis ellipticis, acumi- 

 natis , acumine obtuso, basi subsequalibus et aculis, trinerviis, interdum sub- 

 triplinerviis, membranaceis, glabris, opacis, subtilissime pellucido punctulatis ; 

 spicis longe pedunculalis, tenuibus , filiformibus , sublaxifloris , patulis , folium 

 superantibus ; bracteis crassiusculis, truncato-rotundalis, subciliolatis ; ovariis 

 subglobosis; stigmatibus 3, crassiusculis , patentibns ; fructibus... 



Piper blattarum Spreng. N. Entd. 2. ioo (v. s. a Bertero lect. et a Balbisio 

 miss.). 



Pepercmia blattarum Dietr. Spec. i . 1 5o. 



Piper discolor Wydler, Herb. Portoric. n. 407. 



Crescit in Insula Portorico. 5. 



5. Enckea ci-anothifolia. 



Ramulis subtilissime hirtellis ; foliis oblique subrotundo-ovatis vel subrotundo- 

 cllipticis, acuminatis, acumine acutiusculo , basi inasqualiter rotundatis vel 

 acutis, 5-nerviis, membranaceis, pellucido-punctulatis, opacis , supra satiate 

 viridibus et glabris, subtus pallidioribus , in nervis petiolisque hirtello -puberulis ; 

 spicis patentibus, folio- brevioribus; bracteis subconcbaeformibus, rotundatis, 

 supra glabris, subtus hirtellis ; stylo brevissimo; stigmatibus 3-5, recurvatis; 

 fructibus subgloboso-ovatis, stylo mucronatis , glabris; semine inaequaliter te- 

 tragono. 



Piper ceanothifvhum tïumb. et Kth. Nov. Gen. 1. 56. 



Crescit in Nova Andalusia (4umb.) et in Brasilia prope Rio Janeiro (Gaudi- 

 chaud et Luschuath). 5. 



