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long: scales and deep receptacular cups scarcely ciliate. Fruit subglo- 
bose, reddish, 4 mm. in diameter, low-verrucose : sepals closely inflexed.— 
Plate 65. 
Guatemalan and Isthmian regions.—The type from Costa Rica. 
Specimens examined :—Costa Rica (Oersted, 14, 3082, the type, 4, 
3096). GUATEMALA. Volcan Fuego, Saeatepequez (Smith, 2610). 
Phoradendron multiflorum n. sp. 
Not forked, the rather long and slender branehes with basal eataphyls 
only, dioeeious. Internodes moderate (2-3x40-50 mm.), somewhat resin- 
ous-dotted like the foliage, somewhat 2-edged becoming terete. Cataphyls 
a single pair, basal, tubular-bifid, white-margined. Leaves faleately 
lanceolate, mucronately subacute, 1 to mostly 1.5 or 2x12-18 em., eune- 
ately contracted into a subpetiolar base 2x10-15 mm. Spikes mostly sol- 
itary, moderate (about 40 mm.), smooth, with about three oblong joints 
turbinately about 20-flowered in 4 series when pistillate and some 60- 
flowered in 6 series when staminate: peduncle 3-4 mm. long: scales and 
receptacular cups minutely or evanescently ciliate. Fruit (immature) 
subglobose, reddish, 3-4 mm. in diameter, low-verrucose: sepals closely 
inflexed.—Plates 66, 67. 
Guatemalan region.—The type from Guatemala. 
Specimens examined :— GUATEMALA. Volean Acatenango, Sacatepe- 
quez (Kellerman, 5154, staminate, and 5155, pistillate, Feb. 20, 1905,— 
the types). 
^ Phoradendron amplifolium n. sp. 
Not forked, the rather long and stout branches with basal eataphyls 
only, dioecious?. Internodes rather long (2-5x50-80 mm.), resinous-dot- 
ted like the foliage, 2-edged becoming terete. Cataphyls a single pair, 
basal, somewhat tubular and white-margined. Leaves oblanceolate-oblong 
to obovate-elliptieal, very obtuse, 1.5-3x8-9 or even 12 em., prominently 
5-nerved and distinctly veiny, euneately broad-based for about 10 mm. 
Spikes clustered, moderate (about 30 mm.), smooth, with about 3 oblong- 
fusiform joints about 12-flowered іп 4-series when pistillate: peduncle 
2-4 em. long: seales little ciliate. Fruit subglobose, reddish, large, 6-7 
mm. in diameter, verrucose: sepals closely inflexed.—Plate 68. 
Cordilleran and eastern Sierra Madre regions of Mexico.—The type 
from Puebla. 
Specimens examined :—Mexico. PukBLa. Piaxtla to Amolae (Nel- 
son, 2018, Nov. 24, 1894, the type). Huajuapam to Oaxaca and Retlatz- 
ingo (Nelson, 1982). Tehuaean (Liebmann, 12, 3080). Vera Cruz. Pa- 
pantla (? Liebmann, 13, 3106). Pont de Jalapa (de Pedeguara, 2690). 
