144 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
50. CRASSIFOLIAE. 
Leaves large, ovate, thick, but rather heavily basinerved. Shoots te- 
rete. Cataphyls on all joints,—several pairs, of which the upper are 
more or less deciduous and uniformly fertile. Flowers in 4+2 or 6 
series, Fruit round, nearly smooth, with elosed sepals. Brazil to Cen- 
tral Ameriea and the West Indies. 
Leaves very thick and dull: fruit yellowish. Г. crassifolium. 
Leaves thinner and glossier: fruit red. P. martinicense. 
г PHORADENDRON CRASSIFOLIUM Eichler. 
Phoradendron crassifolium Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 
p. 125. pl. 40. 1868. 
Viscum crassifolium Pohl in de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. р. 280. 1830. 
Phoradendron pepericarpum A. Gray, U. S. Explor. Exped. . . . Wilkes. 
vol. 15. pt. 1, Botany, Phanerogamia. p. 742. 1854. 
Phoradendrum crassifolium Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 51. 1897,— 
as to the mainland. 
«Occasionally pseudodichotomous, the branches with cataphyls on all 
joints, androgynous. Internodes rather long (2-4x60-80 mm.), terete. 
Cataphyls a sterile basal pair sometimes rather closely followed by 2 or 
3 other sterile pairs, and about 3 floriferous pairs spaced along the other- 
wise leafless joint, subannular. Leaves more or less lanceolately or ellip- 
tically ovate, obtuse or blunt-pointed, 3x8 to 8-10x16 em., rounded at 
base or attenuate for 5-20 mm. Spikes sometimes terminal as well as 
axillary and occasionally forming a compound terminal inflorescence 
from the suppression of foliage near the summit, often clustered, mod- 
erate (30 mm.), with about 5 round-fusiform joints scarcely 10-flowered 
in 44-2 or 6 series: peduncle 5 mm. long, often with as many as 5 pairs 
of crowded scales. Fruit (said to be yellowish) subglobose, slightly low- 
granular, 4 mm. in diameter: sepals closely inflexed.— Plates 213, 214. 
: Brazil to Central America, on Bertiera, Coffea, Macrocnemum, Mico- 
nia, Rondeletia, Schinus, ete.— The type from Brazil. 
Specimens examined :—BraziL. Serra d'Ourada (Pohl, 457, 1839,— 
the type of V. crassifolium; Luschnath; Claussen, 43; Sello, 5266). 
Organ Mts. (Wilkes Exped.,—the type of P. pepericarpum). Rio de 
Janeiro (Riedel; Glaziou, 1432-3, 1460, 4004 in part, 4005, 7666, 14884; 
v. Martius; Wied-Neuwied; Peckolt, 624 ; Hieronymus & Niederlein, 
1818; Ule, 4598, су В nearly sessile leaves 3x5 em.). S. Paulo (Burch- 
ell, 3124, 3165; Lófgren, 799). Rio Negro (Spruce, 1563; v. Martius). 
Lagoa Santa (Warming, 373). Sta. Catarina (Pabst, 554 in part; Ule, 
179). Mattogrosso (Moore, 534). Campinas (de Campos Novaes, 417 
m part). Piauhy (Gardner, 2620). Pernambuco (Gardner, 2881— 
