AEQUATORIALES—CHRYSOCARPAE 97 
and drying very rugose, 3 mm. in diameter: sepals not meeting.—Plate 
133. 
Antillean region (? exclusively) on Coccoloba, Ficus and Nectandra. 
—The type from Jamaica. 
„Specimens examined :—ANTILLES, JAMAICA (Alexander; Britton, 965, 
977, 1467, 3144, 3215, Britton & Hollick, 2772; Crawford, 783; Brown, 
51; Hansen, 1897; Harris, 6341,— taken as the type, there being no rep- 
resentative in Grisebach’s herbarium ; 6376, 6397, 10202, 10861). 
28. CHRYSOCARPAE. 
Leaves moderate, lanceolate or elliptical to round-obovate, rather 
opaque and dull but often raised-nerved from the base. Shoots mostly 
2-edged for a time, sometimes at first rhombically 4-lined. Cataphyls 1 
or exeeptionally 2 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers variously in 
2, 4, or 44-2 series. Fruit ovoid, mostly golden-dotted, essentially smooth, 
with elosely inflexed sepals. West Indies. 
Leaves laneeolate: flowers numerous. 
Broad (up to 4 em.). P. chrysocarpum. 
Moderate (scarcely З em.). 
Stem sharply ancipital. ^ P. anceps. 
Stem quickly terete. P. Harti. 
Leaves linear-laneeolate : flowers few, sometimes only 2. P. haitense. 
Leaves elliptical. Е 
Strongly nerved : pistillate flowers 2. P. Уайт. 
Obseurely nerved. 
Stem ancipital. 
Leaves petioled. IT elleri. 
Leaves subsessile. P. Dussii. 
Stem quickly terete. P. crenulatum. 
Leaves round-obovate. F: Gundlachn. 
„> PHORADENDRON CHRYSOCARPUM (Krug € Urban). 
Phoradendrum chrysocarpum Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 39. 
1897. 
P. martinicense Grisebach, Fl. Br. W. I. p. 314. 1860,—in part. 
Seareely forked, the rather long branches with basal cataphyls only, 
androgynous. Internodes moderate (2-3x40-60 mm.), smooth, sharply 
ancipital or at first rhombieally compressed. Cataphyls a single pair, 
nearly basal, scarcely tubular, white-margined. Leaves multiform, from 
rather narrowly lanceolate to round-ovate, eharaeteristieally ovate-lance- 
olate, mueronately very obtuse, 2.5-4x6-8 em., euneately narrowed for 
5-10 mm. rather than petioled. Spikes mostly clustered, moderate (15-35 
