102 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
29. DOMINGENSES. 
Leaves moderate and laneeolate, or spatulate and rather small, rather 
thin, basinerved. Shoots rhombieally ancipital. Cataphyls a single pair, 
on the basal joint only. Pistillate flowers mostly decussately paired, as 
in Dendrophthora. Fruiting sepals not meeting. West Indies. 
Leaves spatulate, blunt. P. domingense. 
Phoradendron domingense n. comb. 
Loranthus domingensis Desvaux in Ham., Prodr. p. 33. 1825. 
Phthirusa domingensis Eiehler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 
р. 134 i. 1868. 
Dendropemon domingensis Van Tieghem, Bull. бос. Bot. Fr. vol. 42. 
p. 170. 1895. 
Phoradendrum trinervium domingense Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 
24. p. 38. 1897. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate crowded branches with 
basal eataphyls only, dioecious. Internodes short (1-3x10-25 or occasion- 
ally 50 mm.), nearly smooth, rhombically ancipital or 4-angled, scarcely 
dilated upwards. Cataphyls a single basal pair, somewhat annular. 
Leaves spatulately obovate, very obtuse, 1-1.5x2.5-4.5 em., euneately long- 
attenuate rather than petioled. Spikes mostly clustered, rather short 
(10-15, lengthening to 30 mm.), with about 3 short slender joints decuss- 
ately 2-flowered when pistillate: peduncle 3-4 mm. long, with a pair of 
seales at base. Fruit golden orange, ellipsoidal, 3x5 mm.: sepals erect, 
parted.—Platel43 . 
Antillean region, on Croton, Exostema, Forestiera, Pisonia, Randia, 
еге.--Тһе type from Hispaniola. 
Specimens examined :—ANTILLES. JAMAICA (Britton, 807, 1895, 1927, 
3068, 3795, 3905; Britton & Hollick, 1890; Campbell, 6383, 6387, 6398 
in part, 6581, 6604, 6605, 6676,6714, 6781, 7264, 8138, 9568, 10175; Har- 
ris, 6552, 10175). 
30. RUBRAE. 
Leaves small and often spatulate, rather thin, basinerved. Shoots 
rhombically aneipital or 4-angled. Cataphyls 1 or 2 pairs, on the basal 
joint only. Flowers several, mostly in 442 series. Fruit usually red 
or orange and very minutely eellular-papillate: sepals not meeting. West 
Indies and Mexico to northern South America. 
Leaves obovate-spatulate. 
West Indian. 
Young fruit elongated. ҮР. trinervium. 
Young fruit rounded. Р. rubrum. 
