AEQUATORIALES—DIMIDIATAE 87 
mm. higher, tubular. Leaves faleately or dimidiately lanceolate, very 
obtuse, 4-8x10-23 em., euneately thick-petioled for 10-20 mm. Spikes 
rather long (50-60 mm.), with half a dozen short swollen joints some 24- 
to 40-flowered in 4+2 or 6 series: peduncle stout, searcely 5 mm. long, 
with about 3 pairs of seales. Fruit (immature) subglobose, smooth, 3 
mm. in diameter: sepals closely inflexed.—Plate 117. 
Andean region.—The type from Peru. 
Specimens examined :—PERU. Huannoca Mts. (Haenke,—the type of 
V. obliquum in the Bohemian Museum at Prag and, without data, in the 
herbarium of the German University at Prag). EcuapoR. Niebly (So- 
diro, a, July 1873). Sto. Domingo to S. Nicolas (Sodiro, 148/16, Sept. 
1892). 
23. DIMIDIATAE. 
Leaves rather large, dimidiately lance-elliptical, drying rather thin 
and basinerved. Shoots subterete to ancipital. Cataphyls 1 or frequently 
2 or 3 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers in 4+2 or 6 series. Fruit 
round, cellular-papillate, with closed sepals. Eastern South America. 
Shoots nearly terete. 
Spikes moderate (50-70 mm.). P. dimidiatum. 
Spikes very long (finally 100 mm. or more). P. Perrottetii. 
Shoots 2-edged. P. bathyoryctum. 
> PHORADENDRON DIMIDIATUM Eichler. 
Phoradendron dimidiatum Eichler in v. Martius, КІ. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 
p. 134 m. 1868. 22 
Phoradendrum dimidiatum Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 9. 
1897. 
Viscum dimidiatum Miquel, Linnaea. vol. 18. p. 58. 1844. 
Seareely forked, the rather long branches with basal eataphyls only, 
androgynous. Internodes moderate (2-3x30-50 mm.), smooth, slightly 
compressed. Cataphyls a pair somewhat above the base, sometimes fol- 
lowed by a second some 10 mm. higher. Leaves more or less obliquely 
or even dimidiately elliptical or sublanceolate, very obtuse, 2.5-3.5x6.5-10 
em., euneately wing-petioled for 10 mm. Spikes solitary, rather long 
(50-70 mm.), with half a dozen fusiform joints some 18- to 24- or fully 
50-flowered in 4+2 or 6 series: peduncle 3-5 mm. long. Fruit?.— 
Plate 118. 
Cayenne region (? exclusively) on Citrus.—The type from Surinam. 
Specimens examined :—SurINaM. Orellana Creek ( Focke, 716,—the 
type of V. dimidiatum). 
