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ered in 6 series when staminate: peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long, with a 
pair of basal seales. Fruit subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter, nearly smooth, 
dull : sepals closely inflexed.—Plate 182. 
Brazilian region.—The type from Barbacena. 
Specimens examined :—BraziL. Barbacena (Pohl, 106,—the type of 
V. ensifolium; Warming, 14, 381). Tristega (Czermak & Reineck, 312). 
Porto Alegre (Czermak & Reineck, 637). 
PHORADENDRON LANCEOLATO-ELLIPTICUM Eichler. 
Phoradendron lanceolato-ellipticum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brazil. 
vol. 5. pt. 2. p. 114. pl. 35. 1868. 
Viscum lanceolato-ellipticum Pohl in de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 
282. 1830. 
V. interruptum de Candolle, Prodromus, vol. 4. p. 282. 1830. 
Seareely forked, the long branches with basal eataphyls only, dioe- 
eious?. Internodes rather long (2-3x50-100 mm. or more, smooth, for a 
time somewhat flattened. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair followed by 1-3 
others at intervals of less than 5 to 25-40 mm. Leaves faleately oblance- 
olate-oblong, very obtuse, 2-4x10-16 em., rather short-cuneate at base. 
Spikes often clustered, moderate (30-40 or 50 mm.), with about 4 slender 
joints some 20-flowered in 6 series when pistillate: peduncle 5 mm. long, 
usually with 1 or 2 lower pairs of scarcely ciliate seales. Fruit (imma- 
ture) somewhat ellipsoidal, 2x3 mm., smooth: sepals elosely inflexed.— 
Plate 183. 
Brazilian region.—The type from Goyaz. 
Specimens examined :—Braziu. Padre Luis Faria, Goyaz (Pohl, 273, 
—the type of V. lanceolato-ellipticum and of V. interruptum). 
96. TURBINISPICAE. 
Leaves moderate, lanceolate, basinerved. Shoots for a time ancipital. 
Cataphyls several pairs, on the basal joint only. Joints of the spikes tur- - 
binately many-flowered in 44-2 series. Fruit round, minutely papillate, 
with elosed sepals. Brazil. 
Leaves lanceolate. P. macrarthrum. 
PHORADENDRON MACRARTHRUM Eichler. 
Phoradendron macrarthrum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. 
pt. 2. p. 124. pl. 43. 1868. 
P. macrarthron Eichler, l. e. p. 107,—in key, 133. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with basal 
eataphyls only, dioeeious?. Internodes rather long (2-4x40-60 mm.), 
