PJioradendron LOKAXTIIACE.E 99 



the youiif^er 4-angled-compressed ; scale-sheaths solitary (rarely 

 wanting) ; leaves oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, narrowed above 

 or acuminate ; spikes (when fruiting) 1 cm. 1., 3-jointed, 

 dioecious(?) (female only seen) ; flowers in 2 rows, in each joint '2, 



Warekca Eoad, Campbelll Fl. Jam. 639S (in part), GG04 (in part). 

 Growing on Pisonia ohtusata. 



Branches long, glabrous; internodes 2-4 cm. 1. Leaves 5-7 cm. 1., 

 l"5-2(-3) cm. br., attenuated into a petiole-like base (2-4 mm. 1.), sub- 

 j)enninerved, 2 lateral nerves from the base, and 2 from the median nerve 

 about 1 cm. above the base. Spikes 1 or 2 in the axils ; peduncle 

 2-3 mm. 1. ; joints 3-4 mm. 1. Berries (immature) shortly ovoid, 

 2-5 mm. 1., with petals generally somewhat open. 



8. P. Grisebaehianum Eicld. in Fl. Bras. v.pt. 2, 134'" (1868) ; 

 plant dioecious ; branches terete below, becoming 4-angled towards 

 apex, compressed ; scale-sheaths 1 or 2 only on the lowest internode 

 of the branches, one above the base, the other to 1 cm. higher ; 

 leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes asymmetrical ; spikes 

 at length 1-2 cm. 1., 3-4-jointed ; flowers in 6 rows, in the male 

 joints 20-26, in the female median joints 4-7, fewer in the 

 lowest and highest.- Kr. d: TJrh. in Engl. Bot. Jalirb. xxiv. 45. 

 P. Berterianum Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Lid. 313 (1860) (in part). 



Prior ! Second Breakfast Spring, Tweedside, 2700 ft. ; Brumalia, near 

 :\Iandeville, 2200 ft. ; Chester Vale, 3000 ft. ; Kentucky Hill, Bluefields 

 Mt., 2000-2500 ft. ; Peckham woodland. Upper Clarendon, 2500-2800 ft. ; 

 Harrisl Fl. Jam. 6341, 6376, 6397(a), 10,202, 10,861; Union Hill, near 

 IMoneague, Britton & Hollick, 2772 ! Growing on Nectandra antillana and 

 Coccoloha. 



Plant 3 ft. high ; branches glabrous, internodes 2-5 cm. 1. Leaves 

 5-11 cm. 1., 2-5 cm. br. ; apex obtuse, attenuated at base into the petiole, 

 penninerved. Berries globose, 3 mm. in diam., with the corolla closed. 



2. Scale-sheaths on all the internodes. 



9. P. latifolium Griseh. Fl. Br. W.Ind. 314 (1860) ; variable, 

 branches long, terete, the younger more or less compressed below 

 the nodes ; leaves penninerved, ovate to elliptical-oblong, some- 

 times asymmetrical, spikes at length 3-7 cm. 1., 4-8-jointed ; 

 flowers in 4 rows (with 2 odd at top of joints), 6-22 in each joint, 

 the highest 2 or few male in the androgynous joints, the rest 

 female. E/f/i/. in Fl. Bras. v. pt- 2, 126, t. 41; Urh. in En[il. 

 Bot. Jahrh. xxiv. 49 & Si/uth. Ant. iv. 209. Viscum latifolium 

 Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 268 (1797). V. tereticaule DC. Prodr. iv. 280 

 (1830). 



Swartz ; Purdiel Wilsonl Moneague, Priori Fray woods, 1650-1800 

 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 10,339. Growing on Eugenia. Cuba, Porto Rico, 

 Dominica, ^Martinique, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad, continental 

 tropical America. 



Leaves 5-10 cm. 1., 2-5 cm. br., generally more or less acuminate, base 

 narrowed into the short petiole, nerves generally scarcely evident. Sjnkcs 

 orange-yellow, 1 or several in the axils of the leaves and at the base of the 

 branches. Berries yellow or orange-yellow, ovate, 3-4 '5 mm. 1. 



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