106 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
70 mm.), resinous-dotted, acutely quadrangular, somewhat rhombically 
compressed above. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair, annular. Leaves ob- 
lanceolate to obovate-spatulate, mucronately obtuse, 1-1.5x3-5 em., eu- 
neately subsessile. Spikes more or less clustered, moderate (15-25 mm.), 
with about 3 somewhat clavate or fusiform rather short joints some 10- 
flowered іп 44-2 series: peduncle 1-2 mm. long. Fruit yellow, ellipsoid, 
nearly smooth, about 3x4 mm.; sepals erect, parted.—Plates 9, 150. 
Venezuelan region.—The type from Venezuela. 
Specimens examined :— VENEZUELA. Caracas (Zuloaga, 1915,—the 
type). 
In the region of P. venezuelense, which it resembles closely but from 
which it differs in its more spatulate leaves and especially in its ellipsoid 
fruit with parted sepals. 
2 Phoradendron commutatum n. sp. 
Phoradendron quadrangulare and P. rubrum of most writers, as to con- 
tinental North America. 
More or less pseudodiehotomous, the moderate branches with basal 
eataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes moderate (2-3x30-40 mm.), 
resinous-dotted, acutely quadrangular. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair, 
sometimes with a second pair at a distance of about 5 mm. Leaves ob- 
lanceolate-oblong or obovate, mucronately obtuse to acute, .5-1x3.5-4 cm., 
or as much as 2x5 em., cuneately sessile. Spikes mostly solitary, mod- 
erate (15, becoming 30 mm.), with 3 or 4 slender somewhat fusiform 
elongated joints some 6-flowered in 44-2 series: peduncle about 4 mm. 
long, often followed by an elongated sterile joint. Fruit red, globose, 
microscopically cellular-papillate, 3 mm. in diameter: sepals inflexed but 
not meeting.—Plates 150, 151. 
> Mountains of Mexico and Central America.—The type from western 
exico. E 
Specimens examined :—MExICO. Guadelajara to Теріс (Gregg, 903, 
1849,—the type). Acaponeta, Tepie (Rose, Standley & Russell, 14450). 
Coneepeion, Sinaloa (Hose, 1525). San Luis Potosi (Purpus, 5322)- 
Mirador (Liebmann, 2, 3098-9, —P. rubrum Oliver, Vidensk. Meddel. 
Kjóbenhavn. 1864, like the following). Consoquitla (Liebmann, 2, 3100). 
Orizaba (Mueller, 556, 1001; Sallé, 67). Vera Cruz (? Greemman, 120). 
Lagunas (Nelson, 2650). Without locality (Sumichrast, 341). HoN- 
DURAS. Puerto Cortez ( ? Kellerman, 4720). Nicaragua. Without local- 
ity (Wright, 1853-6,—on the Ringgold and Rodgers Expedition). 
