146 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 
Loranthus piperoides Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. vol. 
3. p. 443. 1818. 
L. torulosus Humboldt, Bonpland € Kunth, 1. с. 1818. 
Viscum tereticaule and var. cubense de Candolle, Prodromus, vol. 4. p. 
280. 1830. 
V. saururoides de Candolle, 1. с. 1830. 
V. piperoides de Candolle, 1. с. p. 281. 1830. 
V. Schottii Pohl in de Candolle, 1, c. p. 281. 1830. 
V. Fockeanum Miquel, Linnaea. vol. 18. p. 60. 1844. 
V. cornifolium Presl, Epimel. Bot. p. 254. 1849. 
V. ellipticum Presl. 1. с. 1849. 
V. laurifolium Presl, 1. c. p. 255. 1849. 
Phoradendron Schottii A. Gray, U. S. Explor. Exped. . . . Wilkes. vol. 
15. pt. 1, Botany, Phanerogamia. p. 742. 1854. 
P. latifolium Grisebach, Fl. Br. W. I. p. 314. 1860.—Eichler in v. Mar- 
tius, Fl. Brazil. vol. 5. pt. 2. p. 126. pl. 41,—and most writers. 
P. laurifolium Eichler, 1. c. p. 107. 1868. 
Viscum teretifolium Hemsley, Biol. Centr.-Amer. vol. 3. p. 85. 1882,— 
name only, by error for tereticaule. 
ати tereticaule Index Kewensis. vol. 3. р. 503. 1894,—name 
only. 
Р. Biolleyi Krause, Notizbl. K. Bot. Gart. Dahlem. vol. 5. р. 264. 1912. 
Phoradendrum latifolium Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 49. 1897. 
Rather frequently pseudodichotomous or forking, the branches with 
cataphyls on all joints, androgynous. Internodes rather long (2-4x40-100 
mm.), slightly compressed above, quickly becoming terete. Cataphyls 
1 or 2-5 pairs toward the base of the lowest joint, a single pair nearly 
basal or 10-15 mm. above the base of the other joints, subannular, white- 
margined. Leaves lanceolate to round ovate, mucronately subacute or 
bluntly acuminate, 1.5x5 to mostly 2.5-5x6-10 or oceasionally 7x12 em., 
subpetioled for about 5 mm. Spikes mostly elustered, usually dull red, 
rather long (30-60 mm.), with half a dozen rather slender joints some 
10- to 15-flowered in 4, 4--2 or exceptionally 6 series: peduncle 2-3 mm. 
long. Fruit yellow or orange, ovoid or ellipsoid, warty to smooth, 4x5 
mm.: sepals ascending, usually somewhat parted.— Plates 217, 218, 219, 
220, 221, 222.. 
Argentina to Mexieo and the West Indies, in a multitude of forms, 
on numerous dieotyledonous hosts. Should better knowledge of the plants 
in nature render possible a segregation of these forms, the types already 
named would center as follows :—Antilles, V. latifolium, V. tereticaule, 
and V. tereticaule cubense (Pl. 221) ; Andes, L. piperoides and L. toru- 
losus (Pl. 220) ; Brazil, V. Schottii (Pl. 217 ); Cayenne, V. saururoides 
(РІ. 221) and V. Fockeanum; Central America, Р. Biolleyi; Mexico, V. 
