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Specimens examined:—ANTILLES. JAMAICA (Harris, 6393,—taken 
as the type, 6545, 6576, 6926: Britton, 813). Ррквто Rico (Bertero, 
from Sprengel in the Presl herbarium; Kuntze, 426; Sintenis, 5409, 
6758; Britton, Stevens & Hess, 2564; Stevens, 4818, 4819, 4828, 4887, 
5210, 5211). CARIBBEES. MARTINIQUE (Isert, 1787). 
Phorandendron demerarae n. sp. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long and spreading 
branches with basal eataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes moderate 
(2-5x30-60 mm.), the upper either ancipitally flattened or 4-winged. 
Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal or 10-15 mm. above the base, some- 
what tubular. Leaves more or less rhomboidally lanceolate, very obtuse, 
2-3x5-7 em., finely about 5-nerved, somewhat revolutely tapered for about 
10 mm. rather than petioled, slightly clasping. Spikes more or less clus- 
tered, long (40-90 mm.), with about 5 somewhat fusiform or turbinate 
slender joints about 26-flowered in 4 series: peduncle 2 mm. long: scales 
acutely ascending, scarcely ciliate. Fruit white, subglobose, smooth, 3 
mm. in diameter: sepals not meeting.—Plate 91. 
Cayenne region (? exclusively) on other mistletoes.—The type from 
British Guiana. 
Specimens examined:—DEMERARA (Jenman, 2546, Nov. 1886,—the 
type: noted by its collector as the most beautiful of the Guiana mistle- 
toes). 
+ PHORADENDRON TOVARENSE (Urban). 
Phoradendrum tovarense Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 8. 189%. - 
Searcely forked, the rather long branches with basal eataphyls only, 
androgynous. Internodes moderate (3-4x40-80 mm.), aneipital, the up- 
per acutely quadrangular or 4-winged. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly 
basal Leaves somewhat faleately lanceolate, very obtuse, 2-3x8-10 em., 
finely about 7-nerved, gradually narrowed for 15 or 20 mm. to the some- 
what elusping base. Spikes mostly clustered, long (50-80, becoming 120 
mm.), with half a dozen joints elavately some 30- to 50-flowered about 
the middle in 6 or even 8 or 10 series: pedunele 2 or 3 to 7 mm. long: 
scales subtruncately spreading, scarcely ciliate. Fruit globose, smooth, 
3-4 mm. in diameter: sepals nearly meeting—Plate 93. 
- Venezuelan region.— The type from Venezuela. 
Specimens examined :—VENEZUELA. Tovar (Fendler, 1761,—1he 
type, 1110, 1111). 
