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206 FIELDIANA: BOTANY, VOLUME 28<br />
Piper monagasense Yuncker, sp. nov.<br />
Frutex 5-6 m. altus; internodi is indumento conferto brunneo intertexto<br />
vestitis; foliis ovatis 13-16 cm. latis, 27-30 cm. longis, apice<br />
acutis, basi cordatis, lobis basalibus rotundatis approximatis<br />
obtegentibusve, supra secus venas villosis, subtus dense crispe<br />
villosis, a tertio supero deorsum pinnatim venosis; petiolo 4 cm.<br />
longo, indumento brunneo intertexto praedito, ad laminam vaginatoalato;<br />
spicis 7-8 mm. crassis, 35 cm. vel ultra longis; pedunculo<br />
3.5 cm. longo, pubescentia intertexta vestito; bracteis triangularisubpeltatis,<br />
conferte ad marginem firabriatis; ovario ovoideo, stigmatibus<br />
sessilibus.<br />
A shrub 5-6 m. tall; upper intemodes comparatively slender and<br />
elongated, densely matted brown-villous; leaves when living dark<br />
green with sulcate loose areolate nerves above, silvery-gray green<br />
beneath with raised nerves, ovate, 13-16 cm. wide x 27-30 cm. long,<br />
apex acute, base cordate, lobes rounded, approximate or overlapping,<br />
nearly equal or one lobe somewhat longer, pinnately nerved below<br />
the upper third, the nerves 6 or 7 on each side, submarginally loopconnected,<br />
with rather prominent cross-connecting and anastomosing<br />
nervules, villous above along the nerves, densely crisp-villous beneath,<br />
the hairs brown, drying coriaceous, opaque; petiole 4 cm.<br />
long, matted brown-villous, vaginate-winged to the blade; spikes<br />
pendent, 7-8 mm. thick x 35 cm. or more long in fruit; peduncle 3.5<br />
cm. long, matted-villous; bracts triangular-subpeltate, densely<br />
marginally fringed with brown hairs, the pedicel villous; ovary<br />
ovoid; stigmas 3, sessile.<br />
Type in herb. Chi. Nat. Hist. Mus., collected on forested southwest-facing<br />
slopes of Cerro Negro, above La Sabana de Las Piedras,<br />
northwest of Caripe, state of Monagas, alt. 1500 m., April 5, 1945,<br />
Julian A, Steyermark 61853.<br />
Piper oparumaense Yuncker, sp. nov.<br />
Suffrutex 2-3 m. altus; intern odiis superis lenticulato-verrucosis,<br />
glabris; foliis ovatis, 17 cm. latis, 28-30 cm. longis, apice obtusis,<br />
basi inaequilatera liter cordatis, sinu obliquo clauso, venis subtus<br />
puberulis, ad quartum superum pinnatim venosis; petiolo 3 '5 cm.<br />
longo ad laminam vagina to-alato, lenticulato-verrucoso; spicis 1 x<br />
30 cm. magnis; pedunculo 2-3 cm. longis; bracteis rotundato- vel<br />
subtriangulari-subpeltatis; drupa oblonga subtetragona, apice paullo<br />
papillose; stigmatibus sessilibus.<br />
A soft-wooded subshrub 2-3 m. tall; upper intemodes moderately<br />
short and slender, lenticular-warty, glabrous; leaves when living<br />
subcoriaceous, deep green above, paler beneath, ovate, 17 cm. wide<br />
x 28-30 cm. long, apex obtuse, base inequilate rally cordate with<br />
oblique closed sinus, lobes rounded, the larger longer than and<br />
covering the petiole, pinnately nerved to the upper fourth, the nerves<br />
about 6 on eech side with 3 additional recurved nerves in the longer<br />
lobe, submarginally loop-connected in two series, with rather strong