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sharply ancipital. Cataphyls 1 or 2 basal pairs, usually with another 
pair some 5 mm. higher, tubular-bifid, white-margined. Leaves faleately 
lanceolate, obtuse, 1.5-3x7-10 em., distinctly about 5-nerved, cuneately 
attenuate for 5-10 mm. or more. Spikes mostly solitary, long (30-50 
mm.), with about 3 rather slender joints turbinately some 30- to 50- 
flowered in 44-2 series: peduncle 5-8 mm. long: scales not ciliate. Fruit 
(immature) subglobose, microscopically cellular-papillate, 4 mm. in 
diameter: sepals inflexed.— Plate 184. 
Brazilian region.—The type from Goyaz. 
Specimens examined :—BrazıL. Goyaz (Gardner, 3765,—the type). 
87. FALCIFERAE. 
Leaves narrowly oblanceolate, faleate, basinerved. Shoots, if some- 
what flattened, seareely angled. Cataphyls about 2 pairs, on the basal 
joint only. Flowers in’4-+2 series. Fruit warty, with closed sepals. 
South America. 
Leaves elongated, finely nerved. P. falcifrons. 
PHORADENDRON FALCIFRONS Eichler. 
Phoradendron falcifrons Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 
p. 134 m. 1868. 
de falcifrons Hooker € Arnott in Hooker, Bot. Miscell. vol. 3. p. 356. 
Seareely forked, the rather short branches with basal cataphyls only, 
dioecious. Internodes rather short (2x20-30 mm.), somewhat compressed 
above but scarcely angled. Cataphyls a basal pair followed by another 
pair 5-10 mm. higher, tubular. Leaves faleately oblanceolate-oblong, .5-1x 
5-Т.5 em., very obtuse, slenderly long-attenuate rather than petioled. 
Spikes mostly solitary, short (10-20 mm.), with about 3 joints rounded 
and some 6- to 10-flowered when pistillate and slender and 20- to 30- 
flowered in 44-2 series when staminate: pedunele 3 mm. long, sometimes 
with 1 ог 2 pairs of basal scales. Fruit ovoid, 3x4 mm., slightly verru- 
cose: sepals closely inflexed.— Plates 185, 186. 
La Plata region.— The type from Uruguay. 
Specimens examined :—Unvavav, Rio Uruguay ( Tweedie,—the type, 
on laurels). Concepcion (Lorentz, 632, 1779, 1879, 4772). An island in 
Rio Uruguay (Niederlein, 102). Sierra de Tambores (Arechavaleta, 
136). Mattogrosso, ete. (Kuntze, 10). Cordillére de Péribébue (Bal- 
ansa, 3219). 
