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vibus obtuso-tetragonis ; folia alterna longïuscule petiolata, e basi 

 lato-acuta lato- vel ovali-elliptica, inaequimagna, acuta vel obtusa, 

 carnosa, trinervia avenia ; amenta snperne axillaria, solitaria, saepe 

 in pedunculo communi gemina, singula pedicellata, subdissitiflora, 

 lioribas subannulatim dispositis ; bracteae oblongo-rotundatae, cen- 

 trifixae; ovarium exile subimmersum ellipsoideum acuto apice disco- 

 lor leviterque compresso antice foveola exili (stigmate?) instructo. 



Herba scandens, radicans e nodis foliosis ; petioli antice cana- 

 liculati | — 1| cent. longi. Folia mox inferiora mox superiora 

 majora, haec 8 cent. longa, 2 lata, illa 1 cent. longa, nervis 

 lateralibus satis alte productis subimmersis, medio subtus pro- 

 minente, sapra nigrescentia, subtus pallida. Pedunculus communis 

 1 — | cent. longus, apice ubi partiales }- — 1 cent. longi exeunt 

 phyllo exili deciduo munitus. Amenta o — 6 cent. longa, atro- 

 punctata; bracteae carnosae nigrescentes ; filamenta brevissima: 

 antherae peltiformi-planae ; ovarium atro-punctatum. 



Prope Bio Janeiro legit Widgren 1844. 



13. Peperomia Langsdorffii miq. Sgst. p. 116. Linnaea XX. 

 p. 124. Fl. bradl. p. 13. Forma foliis superioribus ellipticis 

 oppositis, inferioribus passim ternis minoribus obovato-oblongis. 

 Caules usque pedales dense patenti-pilosi. — Baccae in sp. vini 

 elliptico-ovoideae fuscae papillosae. 



Ad Caldas prov Minarum leg. Henschen, in herb. 'Regnell 

 IIL n. 1430. 



Var. (5 increscens miq. in Linnaea l. c. Fl. èrasil. p. 13. 

 Amenta in spiritu vini 2 — 4 mm. crassa distantiflora ; baccae 

 extuberanths rhacheos parvulis innixae, nunc non papillosae, sed 

 in sp. sicco amenta 7 — 10 cent. longa, bracteis persistentibus, 

 baccae ovoideo-globosae granulato-papillosae. 



Ad Caldas leg. Regnell III. n. 1429. 



14. Peperomia galioides il. b. k., miq. Sgst. p. 156. Fl. èra- 

 sil. p. 15, tab. IT, fig. II. Var. polymorpha miq., foliis infimis 

 minutissimis reflexis ellipticis^ superioribus multoties longioribus 

 elliptico-lanceolatis. — Folia in sp. vini carnosa; baccae basi 

 immersae erecto-patulae ovoideae "uno latere convexiores, ad rha- 

 chin planiusculae. 



Ad Caldas m Martii 1865: Regnell lil. n. 1108. 



