AEQUATORIALES—NERVOSAE 61 
mm.), smooth, with 2 or 3 joints globose and covered by 12-18 flowers 
in 4+2 series when pistillate, or clavate and about 30-flowered when 
staminate: peduncle 1-2 mm. long: scales scarcely ciliate. Fruit globose, 
waxy, white?, 3 mm. in diameter, smooth, overgrown by the receptacular 
cups: sepals closely inflexed.—Plate 70. 
Mexican tableland ( ? exclusively) on Fraxinus.—The type from Hi- 
dalgo. 
Specimens examined :—Mexico. Hipareo. Tula (Pringle, 6630, 1897, 
—the type). Dublan (Pringle, 11159, 13188). : 
„> PHORADENDRON FORESTIERAE Robinson & Greenman. 
Phoradendron Forestierae Robinson € Greenman, Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. 
32. p. 36. 1896. 
Little forked, the moderately long slender branches with basal cata- 
phyls only, dioecious?. Internodes moderate (2-3x30-50 mm.), more or 
less varnished when young like the foliage, ancipital becoming terete. 
Cataphyls a single pair 5-10 mm. above the base, spreading. Leaves lin- 
ear-lanceolate, obtuse or submucronate, .5-.7x5-8 em., long-attenuate at 
base. Spikes mostly solitary, moderate (30-40 mm.), with about 3 joints 
swollen in the middle and about 14-flowered in 4-+2 series when pistillate : 
peduncle scarcely 2 mm. long: scales and receptacular cups somewhat 
eiliate. Fruit subglobose, white?, 3 mm. in diameter, smooth, deeply 
covered by the thin receptacular cups: sepals closely inflexed.— Plate 70. 
Cordilleran region of Mexico (? exclusively) on Forestiera.—The 
type from Puebla. 
Specimens examined :—Mexico. PUEBLA. Tehuacan to Esperanza 
(Pringle, 6290, 1895,—the type). Near Tehuacan (Rose & Нау, 5873; 
Endlich, 1899a). Tepoxuchil (Arséne, 6). 
11. NERVOSAE. 
Leaves rather broad and fleshy, typically coarsely nerved from the 
base. Cataphyls on the basal joint only, 1 or less commonly 2 or rarely 
3 pairs. Flowers mostly in 4+2 series. Fruit round, nearly or quite 
smooth, with closed sepals. Mexico. 
Leaves ovate: spikes short. P. pachyarthron. 
Leaves lanceolate: spikes rather long. 
Shoots nearly terete. | P. Schumann. 
Shoots aneipital. 
Cataphyls mostly 2 pairs. P. Purpust. 
Cataphyls 1 pair. 
Spike-joints turbinately fruited. P. nervosum. 
Spike-joints clavately fruited. P. Conzattii. 
