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3 — 4 fasciculatim congesta, gracilia, vix attenuata, remotifiora, folia aequantia v. paullo 

 superantia, primum erecta, demura squarrosa, saturate gramineo-viridia, peclunculis sequi- 

 erassis, glabriusculis v. basi prassertim hispidulo-pilosis, petiolura aaquantibus v. supe- 

 rantibus. Bractece rotundata?, demum patentes. Bacca globosa, raatura atroviridis, viscido- 

 papillosa, apice scutulo parvo, concavo, obliquo, postice leviter producto, medio stigraatifero 

 praedita, pseudopedicello exserto, conico demum imposita. 



Distributio geographica: Brasilia, Minas Geraés, Caldas (Lindberg n:o 478 in Hb. Stockholm., Henschen & 

 Rcgnell n:o III, 1109 in Hb. Stockholm. & n.-o III, 1109 partim in Hb. Ups.), Caldas, Capirary ad 

 truncos emortuos silvae primaeva? (Mosén n:o 1G67 in Hb. Stockholm., f. major), Caldas ad truncos 

 putridos silvae primaevae pr. Capirary (Mosén n:o 1669 in Hb. Stockholm., f. minor), Säo Paulo, in 

 cacumine umbroso montis Serra de Caracol ad terram (Mosén n:o 1666 in Hb. Stockholm. & in Hb. 

 Ups.), Serra de Caracol in terra abrupta subsicca silvae umbrosoe (Mosén n:o 1668 in Hb. Stockholm.), 

 Serra de Caracol ad saxa rivuli umbrosi (Mosén, n:o 1670 in Hb. Stockholm.). 



P Hilariana (Miq.) Dahlst. 



Caule apice et in statu juniore praesertim magis et longius hispido-piloso, sparsim 

 nigropunctulato, stolonibus pilosioribus, foliis praesertim apicem versus crebrius pilosis et 

 ciliatis, subtus + nigro-punctulatis, latioribus, magis ovatis et obtusiusculis, haud acuminatis, 

 amentis folia aequantibus v. duplo superantibus baccisque ovato-globosis a forma primaria 

 sat diversa videtur. Variat caule foliisque magis minusve pilosis. 



Distributio geographica: Brasilia (Sellow n:o 1159 in Hb. Berol.), Minas Geraés, Caldas (Kegnell sine 

 numero in Hb. Ups. et 1109 partim in Hb. Ups. & in Hb. Stockholm.). 



Diese Sippe ist zweifellos der P. diaphanoides am nächsten verwandt, von der sie 

 sich hauptsächlich durch den gewöhnlich kräftigeren Wuchs und die reichlichere Behaarung 

 an Stengel und Blättern unterscheidet. 



9. P. Mosenii Dahlst. 



Fig. nostra: Tab. X, fig. 1. 



Caulis succulentus, basi repens, radicans, teres, costulis duabus parum elevatis 

 instructus, firmus, undique _+ pilosus, inferne ruber, e parte inferiore stolones longos, 

 tenues, sparsim v. apice densius pilosos, foliis minimis, orbicularibus, dense pilosis 

 instructos, apicibus v- hinc inde ex axillis innovationes, erectas, subsimplices v. apice ramu- 

 losas cmittens. Folia pleraque alterna, summa saepius opposita v. subopposita v. etiam, 

 internodiis valde reductis, subternatim conferta, inferiora mox decidua, spathulata v. ellip- 

 tica, obtusa — emarginulata v. breviter acuta, reliqua majora, ovalia — ovato-elliptica 

 v. ovato — elliptico-lanceolata, saspe subrhombea et supra medium latiora, mediocriter 

 — longiuscule acuminata, apice ipso obtuso — obtusiusculo, basi subovata — ovato- 

 cuneata v. cuneata, sicca subcoriacea, supra obscure viridia, juniora ubique densiuscule, 

 adulta ad nervös et ad margines sparsim pilosa, subtus pallide viridia et sparsim — 

 densiuscule, ad nervös sat dense pilosa, pellucido-punctulata, marginibus revolutis vix 



