AEQUATORIALES—EMARGINATAE 117 
pair or a second pair exceptionally present, bifid. Leaves obovate, more 
cr less mucronately emarginate, 2-3x3-5 em., euneately subpetioled for 
about 5 mm. Spikes mostly clustered, moderate, (30 mm. in fruit), with 
4 or 5 joints 4- or 6-flowered in 4 or 44-2 series: peduncle scarcely 2 mm. 
long: scales ciliate. Fruit ovoid, 3x4 mm., verrueose: sepals suberect.— 
Plate 170. 
Brazilian region.—The type from Minas Geraes. 
Specimens examined :—BrazıL. Minas Geraes (Claussen, 252, 1839, 
—taken as type). Piauhy (v. Martius). Without locality (Claussen, 
113). Rio de Janeiro (Glaziou, 9861, 14887). Ceara (Gardner, 1670-1). 
Joazeiro, Bahia (Rose & Russell, 19751). BoLtvia. Velasco (Kuntze, 
19). Sierra de Sta. Cruz (Kuntze, 18). 
Phoradendron minor n. comb. 
Phoradendron emarginatum minor Eichler in v. Martius, КІ. Brasil. vol. 
5. pt. 2. p. 119. 1868. 
More or less pseudodiehotomous, the short branches with basal eata- 
phyls only, androgynous?. Internodes short (2x10-25 mm.), nearly 
smooth, slightly 4-winged. Cataphyls a single pair, basal, deeply notched. 
Leaves ovate or suborbieular, mueronately very obtuse or mostly emar- 
ginate, 1-1.5x1.5-2.5 em., rather abruptly subpetioled for 2 mm. Spikes 
short, with about 4 subglobose joints subverticillately about 4-flowered: 
peduncle very short: scales ciliolate. Fruit?.— Plate 172. 
Brazilian region.— The type from Piauhy. 
Specimens examined:—Braziu. Piauhy (v. Martius,—the type of 
Р, emarginatum minor). 
PHORADENDRON OBOVATIFOLIUM Morong. 
Phoradendron obovatifolium Morong, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sei. vol. 7. p. 216. 
1892. 
Pseudodichotomous, the rather short and slender branches with basal 
eataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes short (1-2x10-20 mm.), nearly 
smooth, acutely 4-angled, slightly flattened upwards. Cataphyls a single 
pair, nearly basal, notched. Leaves obovate, mueronately very obtuse or 
emarginate, .5-2x1-2.5 em., rather abruptly subpetioled for 3 mm. Spikes 
solitary, short (8-15 mm.), with about 4 slender joints subverticillately 
4- to 6-flowered above the middle: peduncle 1 mm. long: scales ciliolate. 
Fruit ovoid, 2 mm. long, verrucose : sepals suberect.—Plate 171. 
Brazilian region (? exclusively) on Piptadenia.—The type from Para- 
guay. : 
Specimens examined :—PARAGUAY. Gran Chaco, opposite Asuncion 
(Morong, 1582,—the type). Rio Pilcomayo (Hassler, 298). Rio Apa to 
Rio Aquidaban (Fiebrig, 32, 4981). 
