LORANTHACEAE. 109 



2.5-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, rounded or minutely apiculate at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, the midvein prominent on the under side, the lateral vena- 

 tion obscure, the petioles about 0.5 mm. long; inflorescence peduncled, few- 

 flowered, short-racemose; peduncles about one-half as long as the leaves; 

 pedicels 3 or 4 mm. long; bractlets connate to about the middle; calyx trun- 

 cate ; fruit subglobose, bluish purple, 8-9 mm. in diameter. 



On Kicirtcniii 3I(ihti(/oni, Long Island near Clarence Town on Galloway Road 

 Britton & MillsiKiittjh tiSl.'i.) SHOBT-STALKED MISTLETOE,. 



3. Dendropemon bahamensis Britton, sp. nov. 



Similar to D. emarginatus, but the twigs strongly angled, not scaly. 

 Leaves ovate-elliptic to elliptie-obovate, 5 em. long or less, 1.5-3 cm. wide, 

 acute, acutish or rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base ; petioles stout, 

 about 2 mm. long ; rachis of the inflorescence densely white-scaly, 3 cm. long 

 or less ; calyx densely white-scaly, broadly triangular, 3 mm. long in fruit, its 

 teeth broadly triangular, horny, glabrous ; ripe fruit cylindric with a conic 

 apex, red-brown, 9 mm. long, 5 mm. thick. 



On Lysiloma Suliicii, Nassau. New Providence (Rrittnn and Bruce ,?r>9. type: 

 Brace 3427) : on the same host, Haynes Road, Great Exuma (Britton & Millspaufjh 

 2915) ; on Conocnrpux rrcctd; Georgetown. Great Exnma (Britton cG MillspaugJi 290ti) . 

 Presumably recorded by Dolley as Loranthus parciflorus Sw. BAHAMA MISTLETOE- 



4. Dendropemon emarginatus (Sw.) Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, 491. 1841. 



Loranthus emarginatus Sw. Prodr. 58. 1788. 



Dendropemon emdrginatus lepidotus Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 24: 25. 

 1897. 



Stems rather stout, terete, 3-4 dm. long, the twigs terete or very nearly 

 so, usually scaly. Leaves obovate or elliptic obovate, 2-7 cm. long, rounded 

 or emarginate at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, the petioles 2-6 

 mm. long; inflorescence scaly, several-flowered, 2-5 em. long, the peduncles 

 terete or slightly angular, the pedicels 1 mm. long or less; bracts connate; 

 calyx more or less scaly, its teeth short ; berry cylindric, 6-8 mm. long, black, 

 or red with a black base. 



On Ftcus and Elaplirium SimamlHi, Andros : Cuba; Hispaniola. SCALY 

 MISTLETOE. 



2. PHORADENDRON Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. 1: 185. 1848. 



Shrubs, parasitic on trees, mostly brittle at the nodes, with opposite 

 coriaceous flat leaves, sometimes reduced to scales (cataphyls), terete or angled 

 twigs, and monoecious or dioecious axillary spicate bracted small flowers, 

 solitary or several in the axil of each bract. Staminate flowers with a 

 3-lobed (rarely 2-4-lobed) calyx, bearing a sessile transversely 2-celled anther 

 at the base of each lobe. Pistillate flowers with a similar calyx adnate to the 

 ovoid inferior ovary; style short; stigma obtuse or capitate. Fruit a sessile 

 fleshy berry. Endosperm copious. [Greek, tree-thief, from its parasitic habit.] 

 Over 200 species, all American. Type species: Phoradendron calif ornicum 

 Nutt. 



Branches distinctly tetragonal ; leaves scarcely petioled or short- 



petioled 

 Leaves oblanceolate to spatulate or oblong-spatulate ; peti- 



oles 3-8 mm. long. 1. P. rubrum. 



Leaves obovate to obovate-elliptic, 5 cm. long or less, petioles 



1-2 mm. long. 2. P. irlncrrium. 



Branches terete or nearly so ; leaves distinctly petioled. 



Leaves ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, blunt at the apex; berry 



white. 3. /'. racemosum. 



Leaves obovate, rounded or retuse at the apex ; berry red. 4. P. yorthropiae. 



