AEQUATORIALES—LONGIBACCAE 91 
erate (1-2x20-50 mm.), cellular-papillate, the upper ancipital for a time. 
Cataphyls a single basal pair or 2 or 3 pairs at intervals of 5-10 mm., 
scarcely tubular. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, scarcely 1x7 cm., 
narrowly revolute, gradually narrowed to the base. Spikes sometimes 
truly terminal, mostly solitary, moderate (15, lengthening to 20 or 30 
mm.), with 3 or 4 slender joints about 6-flowered in 4+2 series: peduncle 
searcely 3 mm. long, sometimes with a second sterile joint: scales very 
obtuse. Fruit 3 mm. in diameter, cellular-papillate: sepals closely in- 
flexed.—Plate 123. 
Brazilian region.—The type from S. Paulo. 
Specimens examined :—BrazıL. [S. Paulo] (Sello, 122,—the type). 
PHORADENDRON CRASPEDOPHYLLUM Eichler. 
Phoradendron craspedophyllum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. 
pt. 2. p. 124. pl. 37. 1868. 
Somewhat pseudodichotomous and fasciculate, the moderate branches 
with basal eataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes rather short (2-3x 
20-40 mm.), cellular-papillate, the upper somewhat aneipital. Cataphyls 
a single nearly basal sterile pair, and another pair, fertile as in P. crassi- 
folium ete., about the middle of the joint, scarcely tubular. Leaves ellip- 
tical to ovate or broadly lanceolate, mucronate, acute to obtuse, 2.5-3x 
4.5-6 em., narrowly revolute, rather abruptly contracted for 5 mm, at 
base. Spikes often clustered, rather short (10-15 mm.), with about 5 
slender joints some 6-flowered in 4+2 series: peduncle 1 mm. long: scales 
pointed, somewhat ciliate. Fruit globose, 3 mm. in diameter, smooth : 
sepals closely inflexed.— Plate 124. 
Brazilian region.—The type from S. Paulo. 
Specimens examined :—Bnazir. S. Paulo (Sello, 155, 1836, —the type; 
Burchell, 4559). 
25. LONGIBACCAE. 
Leaves moderate, broad or short, basinerved. Shoots compressed or 
mostly for a time 2-edged. Cataphyls a single pair, on the basal joint 
only. Flowers in 4 or 44-2 series. Fruit elongated, with erect parted 
sepals. South America. 
Leaves obovate-elliptieal. ' 
Abruptly subpetioled, rather thick. P. craspedophylloides. 
Very euneate, thin. P. obtusissimum. 
Leaves cleaver-shaped to subelliptieal. P. acinacifolium. 
Leaves oblanceolate, small. , P. reductum. 
