AEQUATORIALES—CORIACEAE 79 
joints 30- to 50-flowered in 4+2 series. Approaching the next species.— 
Plate 102. 
Guatemalan and Isthmian regions.— The type from San Salvador. 
Specimens examined :—GUATEMALA. Masagua, Escuintla (Smith, 
2097). Dept. Guatemala (Kellerman, 5100). Fiscal (Deam, 6099). 
Without locality (Friedrichsthal, 1841). EL Sanvapor. San Salvador 
(Henson, 284, 1908,—the type). Nicaragua. Without locality (Roth- 
schuh, 464). Matagalpa (Preuss, 1372). Costa Rica. EI Rodeo ( Pit- 
tier, 1637). 
„> Phoradendron falcifolium n. sp. 
Seareely forked, microscopically cellular-papillate, the rather long 
branches with basal cataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes moderate 
(3-4x50-70 mm.), transiently somewhat compressed and dilated below the 
nodes becoming terete. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal, scarcely 
tubular. Leaves broadly lanceolate, faleate, obtuse, 2.5-4x10-14 em., eu- 
neately subpetioled for 15-25 mm. Spikes clustered, moderate (30 mm.), 
with about 6 moderate subglobose joints 20- to 30-flowered in 6 series: 
peduncle scarcely 20 mm. long: seales transiently and minutely eiliate. 
Fruit ?.—Plate 100. 
Guatemalan region.—The type from Baja Vera Paz. 
- Specimens examined:—GUATEMALA. Sta. Rosa, Baja Vera Paz (+. 
Tuerckheim, її, 2168, Mar. 1908,—the type). 
19. CORIACEAE. 
Leaves rather small, dull, obscurely basinerved. Shoots 2-edged or 
terete. Cataphyls 1-3 or 4 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers in 
4, 442, or 6 series. Fruit round or ellipsoid, smooth, with variously in- 
flexed or parted sepals. South Ameriea. : 
Stems not very nodose. 
Leaves smooth. 
Lanceolate. P. congestum. 
Oblanceolate-obovate. P. caripense. 
Lance-elliptieal or ovate. P. Herbert-Smithii. 
Narrowly oblong. P. exiguum. 
Leaves drying rough-granular. 
Internodes quickly terete. 
Leaves linear. P. stenophyllum. 
Leaves rather lanceolate. P. coriaceum. 
Internodes 2-edged. P. ulophyllum. 
Stems much swollen at the nodes: leaves linear- 
oblaneeolate. P. habrostachyum. 
