AEQUATORIALES—ANDINAE 69 
Phoradendron semiteres п. sp. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with basal 
cataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes rather long (3-6x50-100 mm.), 
smooth, ancipital or half-round becoming terete. Cataphyls a single pair, 
tubular-bifid, searious-margined. Leaves obliquely or subfalcately lance- 
olate, obtuse, 1.5 or 2x8-9 or 3-4x12 em., finely 5- to 7-nerved, euneately 
subpetioled for 10 or 15 mm. Spikes more or less clustered, moderate 
(becoming 30 mm. in fruit), with about 3 ellipsoidal joints 10- to 24-flow- 
ered in 44-2 series: peduncle 2 mm. long: seales scarious margined, not 
ciliate. Fruit red, globose, nearly smooth, 3 mm. in diameter: sepals 
rather closely inflexed.—Plate 85. 
Andean region.—The type from Bolivia. 
Specimens examined :—BoLivIA. Sirupaya, near Yanacachi, S. Yun- 
gas (Buchtien, 1411, Dec. 17, 1906,—the type). Cotana, at 2450 m. 
(Buchtien, 163). Peru. Without locality (Pavon). 
Phoradendron Verleyseni n. sp. 
Seareely forked, the long branches with basal cataphyls only, dioe- 
cious?. Internodes elongated (3-6x100 mm. or more), smooth, for a time 
somewhat compressed but soon terete. Cataphyls a single pair, basal, 
tubular-bifid, white-margined. Leaves (on the same plant) from more 
or less faleately lanceolate, 2x7 em., passing into almost truneately ovate, 
7x12 em., obtuse or bluntly acuminate, about 7-nerved, sometimes rather 
abruptly or subcordately contracted to the cuneately winged 10 mm. 
petiole. Spikes often clustered, moderate (20 lengthening to 50 mm. in 
fruit), with about 4 oblong joints some 20-flowered іп 44-2 series: pedun- 
cle scarcely 5 mm. long: scales scarcely ciliate, subtruneate or notched. 
Fruit red, globose, smooth, 4 mm. in diameter: sepals closely inflexed.— 
Plate 86. 
Andean region.—The type from Ecuador. 
Specimens examined :—Ecuapor. Without locality (Verleysen, 148“, 
—the type, 148**, 1896; Sodiro, 19c, 28, 29, 30, 32, 148/29, 148/29b). 
Aguirre (Sodiro, Dee. 1870). Quito (Jameson, 608, 1848). Perucho 
(Sodiro, x, 1871). Niebly (Sodiro, x, 1873). 
With thicker more persistently compressed internodes, rather thicker 
leaves, and more numerous flowers than in the type, it oceurs from 
Puente de Chimbo (Sodiro, 148/19) in a form which may be called var. 
chimboensis.—Plate 87. With spikes as in the last, but less compressed 
internodes and small leaves some .5x5-6 em., it becomes var. Fraseri, 
without locality (Fraser, 1860). 
