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margined. Leaves subspatulately oblanceolate-oblong, subacute to very 
obtuse or slightly emarginate, .5-1x3-5 em., attenuately subsessile. Spikes 
mostly solitary, short (10, lengthening to 20 mm.), with about 3 short 
slender but somewhat fusiform joints about 10-flowered in 4--2 series: 
pedunele 1-2 mm. long. Fruit subellipsoid, sparingly but evidently low- 
warty, 3 mm. in diameter: sepals inflexed and elosely meeting or slightly 
parted.— Plate 163. 
Antillean region.—The type from Jamaica. 
Specimens examined :—ANTILLES. JAMAICA (Harris, 6392, 1896,—tak- 
en as the type, 6384, 6400, 6544, 6585, 6661; Hansen, 1897; Campbell, 
6384, 6400, 1896; Britton, 2991, 3283, 3668). 
A Jamaican specimen (Ball, 1882), with staminate spikes 30-35 mm. 
long, their half-dozen joints somewhat turbinately about 20-flowered, 
тау be known as var. Ballii.—Plate 163. 
Phoradendron microphyllum n. comb. 
Viscum microphyllum Pohl in de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 283. 
1830. 
Phoradendron rubrum var. microphylla Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. 
vol. 5. pt. 2. p. 120. 1868. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal 
eataphyls only, androgynous?. Internodes rather short (1-2х20-40 mm.), 
smooth, rather rhombically 4-sided becoming terete. Cataphyls a single 
pair, nearly basal or as much as 5 mm. above the base, short and spread- 
ing. Leaves oblanceolate-spatulate, mucronately rather obtuse, .3-.7x 
9,5-4 em., slenderly attenuate at base. Spikes solitary, short (seareely 10, 
lengthening to 30 mm.), with about 3 slender joints searcely 10-flowered 
in 4+2 series: peduncle 2-5 mm. long. Fruit rather ellipsoid, smooth, 
3x4 mm.: sepals closely inflexed.— Plate 164. 
Brazilian region—The type from Tingua. 
Specimens examined :—BRAZIL. Tingua (Pohl, 245, 4583—the type 
of V. microphyllum). Rio de Janeiro (Glaziou, 2598, 8728). Alagoas 
(Gardner, 1324, 1325,—from which the fruit is deseribed). 
PHORADENDRON AFFINE Nuttall. 
Phoradendron affine Nuttall, Journ. Philad. Aead. n. s. vol. 1. p. 185. 
1847. - 
Viscum affine Pohl in de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 281. 1830. 
Somewhat pseudodiehotomous, the moderate branches with basal cata- 
phyls only, androgynous?. Internodes moderate ( 2x30-50 mm.), smooth, 
aeutely quadrangular above. Cataphyls a single pair toward the base, 
