48 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
8973; Rose & Rose, 11260). Tlacuiltopee (Purpus, 4087). Cholula (Ar- 
séne, 896, 1907; 7, 1908). Tepoxuchil (Arséne, 10,1908). Jordana, To- 
luca (? Gregg, 725, 1849). Chapala, Jalisco (Diguet, 109). Fuente, 
Sinaloa (Rose, Standley d Russell, 13520). Aguascalientes, Colima 
(Kerber, 88). Guaymas, Sonora (Rose, Standley de Russell, 12574). 
Ixmiquilpan, Hid. (Purpus, 1441; Rose, Painter & Rose, 9160). Above 
1476). Without locality (Graham, 231; Pavon; Aschenborn, 428). Tzin- 
tzuntzan (Seler, 1249). Sierra de Parras (Purpus, 5073). 
PHORADENDRON TLACOLULENSE Loesener. 
Phoradendron tlacolulense Loesener, Bull. Herb. Boissier. vol. 2. p. 536. 
pl. 20. 1894. 
Phoradendrum tlacolulense Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beiblatt 57. p. 
8. 1897. 
Not forked, the short but slender branches without eataphyls, dioe- 
eious. Internodes short (1-3x20-30 mm.), densely villous with short yel- 
low hairs like the foliage. Leaves orbieular to very broadly ovate or 
obovate, very obtuse, .5-1.7x1-2 em., abruptly contracted to sometimes 
eonnate petioles 2-3 mm. long. Spikes mostly solitary, very short (5 
mm.), somewhat villous, with 2 or:3 swollen joints about 6-flowered: 
peduncle searcely 1 mm. long. Fruit round-ovoid, about 4x5 mm., gla- 
brous: sepals inflexed.— Plate 50. 
Cordilleran region.—The type from Oaxaca. 
Specimens examined :—Mexico. Mitla, Oax. (Seler, 119,—the type). 
Near Agua Escondida (Seler, 1763). 
-> Phoradendron globuliferum n. sp. 
Not forked, the rather short branches without cataphyls, dioecious?. 
Internodes short (2-3x10-20 mm.), more or less flattened, somewhat short- 
villous like the foliage. Leaves shortly elliptical-obovate, very obtuse, 
.9-1x2 em., sessile. Spikes solitary, short (5 mm., lengthening to 20 mm. 
in fruit), sparingly short-villous, with about 2 subglobose joints about 
8- to 16-flowered when pistillate: peduncle scarcely 2 mm. long: scales 
sparingly villous. Fruit (immature) subglobose, smooth, small: sepals 
somewhat villous at base, suberect.— Plate 51. 
Sonoran region of Mexico.—The type from Sonora. 
_ Specimens examined :—Mexico. Guaymas, Sonora (Palmer, 88, 1887, 
—the type; Brandegee, 1892). 
