52 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
Not forked, the rather long moderately stout branches without саїа- 
phyls, dioecious. Internodes moderate (3-4x20-50 mm.), yellow-villous 
like the foliage. Leaves faleately lanceolate, acute or rather acuminate, 
1-2.5x7-10 em., conspicuously nerved and veiny, cuneately narrowed to a 
petiole 5-10 mm. long. Spikes mostly clustered, short (15-20 mm.), vil- 
lous, with about 3 subglobose joints scarcely 20-flowered when pistillate, 
or 4 more clavate joints about 30-flowered when staminate: peduncle 
3 mm. long: scales villous and long-ciliate. Fruit subglobose, glabrous, 
about 4 mm. in diameter, in compact whorls: sepals glabrate, more or less 
parted.—Plate 58. 
Mexican tableland and through the Cordillera into Central America, 
on Cornus, Crataegus, ete.—The type from Toluca. 
Specimens examined :—Mexico. Real del Monte (Coulter, 21). Regla 
(Ehrenberg, 422). Queretaro (Herb. Berolin.). Toluca (Berlandier, 
1158,—the type of V. velutinum; Andrieuz, 347 ; Haller, 410). Valley 
of Mexico (Schmitz, 150; Schaffner, 188). Eslava (Pringle, 8058, 9509, 
13190). Deserta Vieja (Bourgeau, 782). San Nicolas and Maromas 
(Bourgeau, 1004, 1116). Contreras (Endlich, 634). Salazar (Endlich, 
1048). Canada Grande (Ross, 148). San Angel (Uhde, 1026). Zim- 
apan (Aschenborn). Istaccihuatl (Purpus, 1777). Sta. Ana, Puebla 
(Arséne, 8). Chinantla (Liebmann). Without locality (Paul, Duke of 
Würtemberg, 1831; Schaffner, 459 ; Uhde, 1027). (GUATEMALA. Saeate- 
pequez. Antigua (Kellerman, 4541). 
An unusually polymorphie species, the type possessing very narrow 
and long leaves. 
7. LONGIFOLIAR. 
Leaves large for the group, usually greatly elongated, scarcely atten- 
uate, rather thick, but sometimes conspicuously nerved. Shoots scarcely 
angled but distinctly compressed at the nodes. Mountains of Mexico 
and Guatemala. 
Leaves searcely nerved. 
Broad for the group (10-25 mm.). 
Narrow (5 mm.). 
Leaves distinctly about 5-nerved. 
Р. scaberrimum. 
P. longifolium. 
Р. uspantanum. 
Phoradendron scaberrimum n. sp. 
Not forked, the long moderately stout branches without eataphyls, 
dioecious?. Internodes moderate (4x25-60 mm.), seabrous-granular, at 
first yellow with microscopic tomentum like the foliage, dilated below the 
nodes to about 10 mm. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, subacute to obtuse 
or emarginate, 1-2.5x10-16 em., subpetiolately euneate for 5-10 mm., 
