AEQUATORIALES—NITENTES 89 
3765). Bahia (Blanchet). Rio Negro (v. Martius). Lagoa Santa (Warm- 
ing, 15, 369). Porto Alegre (Czermak d Reineck, 199,—with 2-3 pairs 
of eataphyls). Without locality (Lund, 21; Riedl). BoLivia. Sta. Cruz 
(Kuntze, 1). Mattogrosso (Kuntze, 3, 36). E. Velasco (Kuntze, 4). 
24. NITENTES. 
Leaves moderate, elliptical to narrowly lanceolate, drying glossy and 
bronzed or golden, basinerved. Shoots compressed for a time. Cataphyls 
1-4 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers іп 44-2 series. Fruit globose, 
with inflexed sepals. South-America. 
Cataphyls not subtending spikes. 
Leaves lance-elliptieal. 
Rather large. P. pellucidulum. 
Rather small. P. holoxanthum. 
Leaves narrowly lanceolate. 
Spike-joints sometimes 20-flowered. P. nitidum. 
Spike-joints searcely 6-flowered. P. Selloi. 
Upper eataphyls subtending flower-spikes. P. craspedophyllum. 
PHORADENDRON PELLUCIDULUM Eichler. 
Phoradendron pellucidulum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 
p.112. 1868. 
Scarcely forked, the rather long branches with basal eataphyls only, 
androgynous?. Internodes rather short (2-5x20-40 mm.), dilated below 
the nodes. Cataphyls a basal pair, sometimes rather closely followed by 
a second or third pair, annular. Leaves obliquely elliptical to lance- 
oblong, very obtuse, 2.5-3.5x 7-9 cm., euneately petioled for about 5 mm. 
Spikes more or less clustered, short (20 mm.), with about 3 slightly fusi- 
form slender joints some 8- to 18-flowered in 44-2 series: peduncle very 
short, usually with a basal pair of scales. Fruit reddish, ellipsoidal, 
cellular-papillate: sepals closely inflexed.— Plate 121. 
Brazilian region.—The type from Rio Negro. 
Specimens examined :—Brazır. San Carlos, Rio Negro (Spruce, 3480, 
—the type). 
PHORADENDRON HOLOXANTHUM Eichler. 
Phoradendron holoranthum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 
p. 116. 1868. 
Somewhat pseudodiehotomous or faseieulate, the moderate branches 
with basal eataphyls only, androgynous?. Internodes rather short (2-3x 
40-60 mm.), somewhat cellular-papillate, the upper rather sharply an- 
eipital. Cataphyls a single pair towards the base or these followed by a 
