122 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
ately subsessile. Spikes mostly solitary, short (10-25 mm.), with 8-5 
rounded joints about 6-flowered in 4+2 series: peduncle nearly sup- 
pressed: scales scarcely ciliate. Fruit subglobose, granular, scarcely 
3 mm. in diameter : sepals erect, parted.—Plate 177. 
Andean region.—The type from Peru. 
Specimens examined :—Pervu. Balsas to Calendin, Cajamarca (Web- 
erbauer, 4251,—the type). 
94. LiIGAE. 
Leaves moderate or small, sharply basinerved though rather thick. 
Shoots at first somewhat rhombically flattened. Cataphyls 1 or mostly 
2 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers usually in 4+2 series. Fruit 
scmewhat papillate, usually with nearly closed sepals. Bolivian region. 
Leaves narrow (under 10 mm.). 
Short (scarcely 40 mm.) : sepals parted. Р. pruinosum. 
Moderately long (40-60 mm.) : sepals meeting. Р. Liga. 
Leaves broad (20 mm. or more). Р, Hieronym. 
PHORADENDRON PRUINOSUM (Urban). 
соолсун pruinosum Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. р. 14. 
Seareely forked, the moderate branches with basal eataphyls only, 
androgynous. Internodes rather short (2 or 3x6-15 mm.), smooth, at 
first rather ancipitally flattened. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal. 
pale-margined. Leaves elliptical-oblong, mucronately subacute, .5-.8x 
2.5-4 em., more or less evidently 3-nerved, cuneately subsessile. Spikes 
mostly solitary, short (about 10 mm.), with 2-4 joints 2-flowered to about 
6-flowered in 4+2 series: peduncle nearly suppressed: scales scarcely 
oa Fruit round-ovoid, nearly smooth, 3x4 mm. : sepals erect.—Plate 
178. 
Bolivian region (?exelusively) on Leguminosae.— The type from 
Argentina. 
Specimens examined :—ARGENTINA. Catamarca (Lorentz, 382, 688,— 
the type). Rioja (Hieronymus & Niederlein, 165). 
PHORADENDRON Lica Eichler. 
Phoradendron Liga Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. P- 
134 m. 1868. 
Phoradendrum Liga Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 15. 1897. 
Viscum Liga Gillies: Hooker & Armott, in Hooker, Bot. Miscell. vol. 3. 
p. 355. 1833. 
