AEQUATORIALES—LIGAE 123 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long very slender branches 
with basal cataphyls only, androgynous, Internodes moderate (1-2x25-60 
mm.), smooth, at first rhombie but soon terete. Cataphyls a single pair 
toward the base, or 2 pairs some 10 mm. apart, scarious-margined. Leaves 
more or less faleately oblong to narrowly lanceolate, mueronately acute, 
.5-1х4-6 cm., 3- to 5-nerved, gradually attenuate at base for about 5 mm. 
rather than petioled. Spikes mostly solitary, moderate (20, becoming 
80 mm.), with about 4 slender joints some 10- to 18-flowered in 4-+2 
series: peduncle about 5 mm. long: scales acute, scarious-margined, little 
ciliate. Fruit red, subglobose, minutely cellular-papillate, 4 mm. in 
diameter: sepals elosely inflexed.— Plates 179, 180. 
Bolivian region.—The type from Argentina. 
Specimens examined :—ARGENTINA. Los Cerillos de S. Juan (Gillies, 
—the type of V. Liga). Cordoba (Lorentz, 395, 431, 471, 478; Hierony- 
mus, 729; Kurtz, 8434). S. José (Lorentz & Hieronymus, 219). Colonia 
Benites (Stuckert, 16437). Bellarita Corrientes (Stuckert, 14569). Cha- 
carita de los Padres (Lorentz & Hieronymus, 420). Fuerte (Lorentz, 
544). Catamarca (Kurtz, 6772). PARAGUAY. Sta. Elisa, Gran Chaco 
(Rojas, 2732; Hassler, 2732). Concepcion (Hassler, 7551). Asuncion 
(Balansa, 2496). Yaguaron (Balansa, 3218). Central Paraguay ( ? Mo- 
rong, 618). BoLivia. S. Pablo (Kuntze, 5). 
Phoradendron Hieronymi n. sp. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal 
cataphyls only, androgynous?. Internodes rather short (2-3x20-40 mm.), 
smooth, somewhat compressed or ancipital. Cataphyls usually a basal 
pair and a second pair some 5 mm. higher, ciliate. Leaves more or less 
obliquely elliptical to obovate, obtuse, 2-3x4-6 em., distinctly 5- or T- 
nerved, euneately subpetioled for about 5 mm. Spikes mostly solitary, 
rather short (15-20 or 25 mm.), with about 3 oblong joints some 8- to 
12-flowered іп 4 ог 44-2 series: peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long, often with 
about 2 pairs of scales. Fruit subglobose, minutely cellular-papillate, 
3 mm. in diameter: sepals closely inflexed but not meeting.—Plate 180. 
Bolivian region.—The type from Argentina. 
Specimens examined :—ARGENTINA, Chacarita de los Padres, Cata- 
marca (Hieronymus, 421, 1872,—the type). Sierra Chica de Cordoba 
(Lorentz, 432). Cruz del Eje, Cordoba (Stuckert, 13363). Fuerte (Lor- 
entz, 364). Calera (Lorentz, 468). Catamarca (Hieronymus, Nov. 1873). 
Guasopampa (Kurtz, 6783). Tucuman (Lillo, 20256). 
