136 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
with about 4 slightly clavate joints some 18- to 42-flowered in 6 or 8 
series: peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long, sometimes with a basal pair of 
seales. Fruit white, globose, smooth, 3 mm. in diameter: sepals closely 
inflexed.—Plate 200. 
Antillean and Caribbean regions.—The type from Cuba. 
Specimens examined :—ANTILLES. CuBa (de la Ossa, 1825,—the type 
of V. hexastichum; ?Shafer, 8590, Wright, 1252). Harri (Picarda, 1623; 
ex. herb. Sprengel, as V. myrtilloides). Santo Dominco (Eggers, 1899; 
Lloyd, 765; Taylor, 328; v. Tuerckheim, 3284; Wright, Parry & Brum- 
mel, 460). Puerto Rico (Hess, 675; Sintenis, 2836, 5383), CARIBBEES. 
GUADELOUPE (Duss, 4137). Martinique (Bélanger, 131; Duss, 1375, 
4415; Hahn, 1386; Sieber, 227 in part). ST. Vincent (Guilding; Smith, 
297). GRENADA (Broadway, 1021). 
With lanceolate leaves only 2-2.5 em. wide, it is var. angustifolia, 
Phoradendrum hezastichum angustifolium Krug € Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 
vol. 24. p. 46. 1897, from Grenada (Eggers, 6140) ,—connected ‚with the 
type by Broadway, 1894, from the same island.— Plate 201. 
Phoradendron Oliverianum n. sp. 
More or less fascieled, the moderate branches with basal cataphyls 
only, dioecious?, Internodes rather short (2-5x20-50 mm.), nearly smooth, 
the upper aneipital and somewhat dilated upwards. Cataphyls a single 
pair, mostly 5-10 mm. above the base, ovate, spreading. Leaves elliptical 
or subovate, more or less mueronulate but very obtuse, 2 or 2.5-4x4.5-6 
or 10 em., euneately or rather abruptly petioled for 5-8 mm. Spikes more 
or less clustered, moderate (20-35 mm.), with about 3 subfusiform joints 
some 10- to 24-flowered in 4-6 series: peduncle 2-5 mm. long. Fruit ?.— 
Plate 201. 
Eastern Sierra Madre region.— The type from eastern Mexico. 
Specimens examined :—Mexico. El Mirador, Vera Cruz (Liebmann, 
6, 3085, 1842,—the type: P. hexastichum Oliver, Vidensk. Meddel. Na- 
turh. Foren. Kjóbenhavn. 1864. p. 175). 
46. PTERONEURAE. 
Leaves usually large, more or less coriaceous, rarely revolute, pin- 
nately nerved. Shoots subterete to ancipital, 2-keeled or quadrangular. 
Cataphyls 1- several pairs, on the basal joint only or on all in eases of 
forking. Flowers in 4-6 series. Fruit rounded, mostly smooth, with 
more or less closed sepals. West Indies and South America. 
Usually forking and hence with cataphyls are P оо 
Cataphyls on the basal joints only. phyls on all joints. 5 
