118 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
^4 PHORADENDRON MUCRONATUM (Krug « Urban). 
Phoradendrum mucronatum Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 34. 
1897. 
Viscum mucronatum de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 282. 1830. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal 
cataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes short (2x10-20 mm.), papil- 
lately roughened, acutely 4-angled, slightly flattened upwards. Cata- 
phyls a single pair, nearly basal, notched. Leaves suborbicular or ob- 
ovate, more or less mueronately very obtuse or emarginate, 1-2x1.5-3 em., 
rather abruptly petioled for 1-2 mm. Spikes more or less clustered, short 
(5-10 mm.), with about 3 short 4- to 6-flowered joints: peduncle very 
short: scales ciliolate. Fruit round-ovoid, 3-4 mm. long, verrueose: sepals 
ereet.— Plate 172. 
Antillean and Caribbean regions, on Croton, Psidium, ее. — The type 
from Santo Domingo. 
Specimens examined:—ANTILLES. Santo DominGo (Bertero,—the 
type of V. mucronatum; Varamel, 1851; Fuertes, 240, 1175, 1393). Harm 
(Buch, 319; Nash, 98). JAMAICA (4 Purdie, —with sessile ovate obtuse 
leaves 4x6 ст.). CARIBBEES. GUADELOUPE (Duss, 4156). MARTINIQUE 
(Duss, 100; Hahn, 296, 1383, 1385). 
^ Phoradendron yucatanum n. sp. 
Scarcely forked, the moderate branches with basal cataphyls only, 
androgynous?. Internodes short (2x10-30 mm.), somewhat velvety-papil- 
late, aneipital or somewhat quadrately angled, slightly widened upwards. 
Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal, bifid. Leaves euneately obovate to 
suborbieular, mueronately very obtuse to emarginate, 1-1.5x1.5-2.5 em., 
seareely petioled. Spikes solitary, short, (5-10 mm.), with about 3 sub- 
globose verticillately 4-flowered joints: peduncle 1 mm. long: scales cili- 
olate. Fruit (immature) subglobose, scarcely 2 mm. in diameter, ver- 
rueose : sepals erect.—Plate 173. 
Yucatecan region.—The type from Yucatan. 
Specimens examined :—Mexico. Yucatan, without other data (Gau- 
mer, 561 in part, 1895,—the type, in the herbarium of the Field Mu- 
seum). 
PHORADENDRON OTTONIS Kichler. 
Phoradendron Ottonis Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil, v. 5. pt. 2. p. 119. 
1868. 
Pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal cataphyls only; 
androgynous?. Internodes short (2x15-25 mm.), nearly smooth, little 
quadrate, ancipitally dilated to a width of 5-7 mm. below the nodes. 
