AEQUATORIALES—RUBRAE 107 
„А PHORADENDRON RUBRUM Grisebach. 
Phoradendron rubrum Grisebaeh, Fl. Br. W. I. p. 314. 1860,—as to 
name only. 
Viscum rubrum Linnaeus, Sp. Plant. p. 1025. 1753.—de Candolle, Pro- 
dromus. vol. 4. p. 281. 
P. tetrastachyum spathulifolium Grisebach, Cat. Pl. Cub. p. 120. 1866. 
P. tetrastichus Hitcheock, Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. vol. 4. p. 125. 1893,— 
for tetrastachyum. 
Phoradendrum spathulifolium Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 41. 
1897. 
At most somewhat pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with 
basal eataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes short (2-3x20 mm.), 
smooth, rhombically ancipital and somewhat dilated upwards. Cataphyls 
a nearly basal pair, frequently followed by 1 or 2 others at short inter- 
vals, blunt and spreading. Leaves somewhat rhombically lance-spatulate 
to obovate, obtuse, 1-1.5x4 em., cuneately tapered and subpetioled for 
5 mm. Spikes more or less clustered, short (scarcely 20 mm.), with 2 
or 3 oblong joints about 12-flowered іп 4+2 series: peduncle 2-3 mm. 
long. Fruit red or exceptionally yellow, subglobose, smooth, 4 mm. in 
diameter: sepals more or less erect and parted.—Plates 152, 153. 
Antillean and Bahamian regions.—The type from the Bahamas. 
Specimens examined :—Banamas. Without locality (Catesby, in the 
herbarium of the South Kensington Museum,—the prototype of V. ru- 
brum). ABaco (Coker, 558). Fortune ISL. (Eggers, 3847). CROOKED 
Тв. (Hitchcock, 1890; Brace, 4643). Lone Isr. (Britton & Millspaugh, 
6325). Сат Іш. (Britton de Millspaugh, 5867). MARIGUANA (Wilson, 
7449, 7457, 7532, 7579). NEw PROVIDENCE (Brace, 3428; Britton & Brace, 
832; Coker, 303). Аскілм Ist. (Brace, 4461). Waruine’s IsL. (Wilson, 
7254). IwaAGUA (Nash & Taylor, 947, 1021, 1314 and 1342—with yellow 
fruit). ANTILLES. Cusa (Wright, 512, 1200b, 1300b,—the type of P. 
tetrastachyum spathulifolium and of P. spathulifolium ; Combs, 347, 348 ; 
Shafer, 296, 371). 
Linnaeus apparently based Viscum rubrum on the description and 
illustration of the plant figured on pl. 81 of Catesby’s celebrated work 
on the Bahamas, the true character of which is evident from the accom- 
panying photographic illustration of one of the several specimens of 
Catesby’s collection preserved at South Kensington. Grisebach, who in- 
tended to transfer into Phoradendron the species which Linnaeus had 
called Viscum rubrum, and who therefore stands as the author of the 
name as here used, really applied it to the plant here called P. antillarum, 
and he subsequently rechristened the true rubrum P. tetrastachyum spa- 
thulifolium. 
