142 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
E. PARADOXAE. 
Cataphyls on alternate joints or in ‘one species on all joints, the 
branches normally percurrent. Always glabrous and with foliage leaves. 
Venezuela. 
Cataphyls 2 or 3 deeply tubular pairs. FENDLERIANAE. 
49. FENDLERIANAE. 
Leaves moderate, rather thick and dull, somewhat obscurely basi- 
nerved. Shoots nearly terete when with cataphyls or strongly aneipital 
when without them. Cataphyls mostly 2 or 3 pairs, on all joints or in 
one species on every alternate joint. Spikes moderate, usually with rath- 
er large scales. Flowers in 6 series. Fruit round, smooth, with nearly 
closed sepals. Venezuela and Guiana. 
Cataphyls on all joints. P. Fendlerianum. 
Cataphyls on alternate joints only. P. paradoxum. 
„> PHORADENDRON FENDLERIANUM Eichler. 
Phoradendron Fendlerianum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. 
pt. 2. p. 129. 1868. 
Seareely forked, the rather long branches with eataphyls on all joints, 
dioecious?. Internodes moderate (2-3x50-80 mm.), smooth, somewhat 
compressed above. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair followed by a second 
or even a third pair at intervals of 10-20 mm. or more, tubular. Leaves 
round-ovate or elliptical, sometimes oblique, very obtuse or emarginate, 
5-1х8-9 em., rather abruptly petioled for some 10 mm. Spikes clustered, 
rather long (50-60 mm.), with about 5 elavate joints scarcely 24-flowered 
in 6 series when pistillate: peduncle some 10 mm. long, usually with 1 
or 2 pairs of basal scales: seale-pairs forming rather deep truneate cups. 
Fruit round, smooth, 4 mm. in diameter: sepals inflexed but slightly 
parted.— Plate 211. 
Venezuelan region.— The type from Venezuela. 
2. examined :—VENEZUELA. Tovar (Fendler, 1102,—the 
PHORADENDRON PARADOXUM (Urban). 
Phoradendrum paradoxum Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 8. 
= Seareely forked, the moderate branches with eataphyls on alternate 
joints, dioecious?. Internodes rather long (2-7x50-90 mm.) and subterete 
when with eataphyls, shorter (seareely 50 mm.) and sharply ancipitally 
flattened when lacking them, smooth. Cataphyls a pair some 5 mm. above 
