AEQUATORIALES—VERNICOSAE 93 
tical, very obtuse, 1.5-3x4-6 em., euneately slender-subpetioled for 5-10 
mm. Spikes often clustered, short (10-15 mm.), with about 3 slender 
joints some 6-flowered in 4--2 series: peduncle 1 mm. long, sometimes 
followed by a longer sterile joint: seales blunt, eiliate. Fruit ellipsoidal, 
equally tapered at both ends, 3-4x6 or even 8-10 mm., smooth: sepals 
erect or spreading.—Plates 126, 127. 
Brazilian region (? exclusively) on Lauraceae and Compositae.— The 
type from Rio de Janeiro. 
Specimens examined :—Braziu. Bahia (v. Martius). Rio de Janeiro 
(Gaudichaud, 574,—taken as type; Sello, 511, 597; Mikan; Glaziou, 
6073). Falls of Madeira (Rusby, 1542). Paraguay. Pilcomayo River 
(Hassler, 191; Morong, 1546). **Central Paraguay’’ (Morong, 358). 
Phoradendron reductum n. sp. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the slender branches with basal eata- 
phyls only, androgynous?. Internodes short and slender (1-2x20-25 
mm.), somewhat cellular-papillate, the upper slightly compressed and 
dilated. Cataphyls a single nearly basal pair, exceptionally followed by 
a second, searcely tubular. Leaves oblanceolate or subelliptical, very ob- 
tuse, 1x3 em., euneately subpetioled for about 3 mm. Spikes short 
(seareely 20 mm. in fruit), with about 3 slender joints subvertieillately 
about 6-flowered toward the top: pedunele nearly suppressed, sometimes 
followed by 1 or 2 sterile joints. Fruit ellipsoidal or ovoid, smooth, 3x5 
mm. : sepals erect.— Plate 127. 
Brazilian region. —The type from Paraguay. 
Specimens examined :—PARAGUAY, ‘‘South Paraguay” (Kuntze, 15, 
Sept. 1892, —the type). 
: 26, VERNICOSAE, 
Leaves moderate, lanceolate to obovate, rather thin and evidently 
basinerved. Shoots eompressed rather than aneipital. Cataphyls a single 
pair, on the basal joint only. Flowers usually in 2 deeussating series as 
in Dendrophthora. Fruit mostly wrinkled and with elosed sepals. Mex- 
ieo and Central Ameriea. 
Spikes filiform : shoots much flattened. 
Joints several-flowered. Mexico. P. Wawrae. 
Joints 2-flowered. Guatemala. P. cheirocarpum. 
Spikes thicker though not stout: shoots nearly terete. 
Leaves prevailingly lanceolate. Honduras. P. decussatum. 
Leaves prevailingly obovate. Yucatan. P. vernicosum. 
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