128 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
ir. 4+2 series: peduncle 4 mm. long: seales rather deeply parted. Fruit 
subglobose, 4-5 mm. in diameter, retrorsely hairy: sepals pubescent, in- 
curved.—Plate 188. 
Bolivian region (? exclusively) on cacti.—The type from Bolivia. 
Specimens examined :—BoLivia. Tunari Mts. at 1300 m. (Kuntze, 
20, June 1892,—the type). Cotana, at 2500 m. (Buchtien, 3156). 
С. PENNINERVIAE. 
Nerves pinnate from a midrib which usually continues through the 
leaf but sometimes vanishes below the middle; never with several equally 
strong nerves from the base. 
Leaves thick and opaque. 
Stem 4-lined : midrib evanescent. EGGERSIAE. 
Stem ancipital or terete. 
Leaves elongated (1:3-4), dull. UNDULATAE. 
Leaves broad (1:2). 
Spikes very long, Venezuelan. P. polygunum. 
Spikes moderate. Bahamian. NORTHROPIAE. 
Leaves fleshy : stem bluntly square. RUGULOSAE. 
Leaves drying rather leathery or papery. 
Not or scarcely revolute. 
Midrib evanescent. HEYDEANAE. 
Midrib pereurrent. PTERONEURAE. 
Revolute. HEXASTICHAE. 
Leaves herbaceous, dull: stem sharply ancipital. PERUVIANAE. 
39. EGGERSIAE. 
Leaves large, rather thick and dull, evanescently heavily pinnately 
nerved. Shoots acutely quadrangular. Cataphyls 2 pairs, on the basal 
joint only. Spikes stout and long. Flowers in 412 series. Fruit gran- 
ular, with widely parted sepals. Andes. 
Leaves ovate. P. Eggersú. 
PHORADENDRON Ессккзп (Urban). 
Phoradendrum Eggersii Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 10. 1897. 
Seareely forked, the branches with basal eataphyls only, androgy- 
nous?. Internodes rather short, stout (3-5x25-50 mm.), nearly smooth, 
square or 4-keeled, slightly swollen but not eompressed at the nodes. 
Cataphyls a basal pair followed by another more or less fertile pair some 
10 mm. higher, Leaves very broadly elliptieal or ovate, very obtuse, 
7-11x11-15 em., abruptly petioled for 15-20 mm., rather thick and dull, 
cbseurely pinnately veined below the middle. Spikes mostly clustered, 
