AEQUATORIALES—CAMPBELLIAE 95 
Yueateean region.—The type from Honduras. 
Specimens examined :—Honpuras. Comyagua to Sabana Larga (Nie- 
derlein, 95, Feb. 23, 1898,—the type). 
2 PHORADENDRON VERNICOSUM Greenman. 
Phoradendron vernicosum Greenman, Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Botany. 
vol. 2. p. 250. 1897. 
Seareely forked, the moderately long branches with basal eataphyls 
only, dioecious. Internodes rather short and thick (2-4x20-40 mm.), min- 
utely papillate, varnished when young, elliptieally dilated rather than 
compressed below the nodes. Cataphyls a single pair toward the base, 
short-annular. Leaves subelliptieal or obovate varying into lanceolate, 
very obtuse, 1-2x2.5-4 em., euneately subpetioled for seareely 5 mm. 
Spikes often clustered, short (10-15, lengthening to 20 mm.), with 3 or 4 
short oblong joints decussately 2-flowered when pistillate: peduncle 1-2 
mm. long, sometimes with a second pair of seales. Fruit ovoid, somewhat 
rugulose-warty, 4х5 mm. : sepals closely inflexed.—Plate 130. 
Yueateean region.—The type from Yucatan. 
Specimens examined :—Mexico. Izamal, Yucatan (Greenman, 440, 
Feb. 22, 1906,—the type). Silan (Gaumer, 876, 1895). 
27. CAMPBELLIAE, 
Leaves moderate, lanceolate, rather herbaceous, basinerved, somewhat 
veiny. Shoots much flattened or subrhombie. Cataphyls 1 or 2 pairs, 
on the basal joint only. Pistillate flowers in 2 or 4 series. Fruit round 
or ovoid, mostly wrinkled, with suberect parted sepals. West Indies. 
Shoots 2-edged, dilated upwards. 
Leaves obtuse: eataphyls 2 pairs. P. Fici. 
Leaves usually blunt-acuminate: eataphyls 1 pair. P. Campbelli. 
Shoots rhombic in section, little dilated. Р. Grisebachianum. 
PHORADENDRON Етсг (Urban). 
Phoradendrum Fici Urban, Symbolae Antillanae. vol. 5. p. 333. 1907. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with basal 
eataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes short (2-3x20 mm.), transversely 
wrinkled in drying, ancipitally compressed and somewhat dilated up- 
wards. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair, usually followed at a short dis- 
tance by a second or a third pair, truncately annular. Leaves faleately 
rather broadly lanceolate, obtuse, 1.5-2.5 or even 3x5-9 cm., euneately 
subpetioled for about 10 mm. Spikes solitary, moderate (scarcely 30 mm. 
long), with about З slender joints 2- to 6-flowered : peduncle some 5 mm. 
