AEQUATORIALES—UNDULATAE 129 
rather long (40-60 mm.), with about 3 stout oblong joints 22- to 30-flow- 
ered in 4--2 series: peduncle almost suppressed. Fruit globose, tuber- 
culate, 5 mm. in diameter: sepals widely spreading with upeurved tips.— 
Plate 211. 
Andean region.— The type from Eeuador. 
Specimens examined:—Ecuapor. Hacienda El Recreo, Manabi (Eg- 
gers, 15229, Aug. 29, 1893,—the type). 
40. NORTHROPIAE. 
Leaves moderate or rather large, somewhat thick and dull, scarcely 
revolute, very obscurely subpinnately nerved. Shoots somewhat rhom- 
bie. Cataphyls a single pair,—on all joints? Flowers in 4 2-2 series. 
Fruit round, smooth, with parted sepals. Bahamas. 
Leaves obovate or spatulate, often emarginate. P. Northropiae. 
PHORADENDRON NORTHROPIAE Urban. 
Phoradendron Northropiae Urban, Mem. Torrey Bot. Cl. vol. 12. p. 33. 
pl. 4. 1902. 
Commonly forked or fasciculate, the moderate branches apparently 
with eataphyls on all joints, androgynous. Internodes moderate (2-5x 
20-60 mm.), minutely papillate, for a time somewhat rhombic or com- 
pressed, enlarged at the nodes. Cataphyls a single pair 5 mm. or less 
above the base, or rarely 2 pairs, short-tubular. Leaves obovate to sub- 
spatulate, very obtuse to obeordately notched, 2.5-3x3-5, or 4-5x6-10 em., 
euneately subpetioled for 5 mm., obseurely penninerved. Spikes often 
densely elustered, rather short (20-25 mm.), with about 4 subfusiform 
moderately thick joints covered by some 8-18 flowers in 4--2 series : 
peduncle seareely 5 mm. long, with a second pair of scales. Fruit red, 
subglobose, smooth: sepals erect, not meeting.—Plate 189. 
Bahamian region (? exclusively) on Mimusops.—The type from Ап- 
d 
шы examined :—BAHAMAS. ANDROS 181. (Northrop, 551, 1890, 
—the type; Brace, 5325; Small & Carter, 8479). 
41. UNDULATAE. 
Leaves rather large, lanceolate, thick, dull, obscurely pinnately 
nerved. Shoots sharply ancipital above. Cataphyls mostly 3-4 pairs, on 
the basal joint only. Flowers in 44-2 series. Fruit ellipsoid, smooth, 
with nearly closed sepals. Brazil to the West Indies. 
