AEQUATORIALES—FLAVENTES 151 
er elliptical, mucronately very obtuse, .3-.5x3-4 em., or .8x2 em., quickly 
subsessile. Spikes more or less clustered, short (15, becoming scarcely 25 
mm.), with about 3 swollen joints verticillately 4- to 6-flowered : peduncle 
scarcely 2 mm. long, sometimes with a basal pair of scales. Fruit red 
or yellow, ovoid, smooth, 3x5 mm.: sepals erect, parted.—Plate 227. 
Brazilian region.—The type from Para. 
Specimens examined :—BrazıL. Barra, Rio Negro (Spruce, 1850-51 ; 
Riedel; v. Martius). Santarem, Para (Spruce, 1--226, 2=228, 1849-50, 
—the type). Rio de Janeiro (Glaziou, 13925a). CAYENNE. Without data 
(?Herb. Mus. Paris.). 
53. FLAVENTES. 
Leaves rather large, lanceolate or ovate, usually sharply basinerved 
and retieulate above, but heavy-nerved and veinless beneath. Shoots 2- 
edged to nearly terete. Cataphyls on all joints, usually 2 or 3 pairs on 
the lowermost and a single pair at some distance above the base on the 
others, triangular, keeled and pointed. Flowers usually in 6 series. Fruit 
rather ellipsoid, nearly smooth, with closed sepals. Central and South 
America ; one species in the West Indies. 
Flowers in 6 series. 
Leaves dull and veinless: peduncles long. P. pachyphyllum. 
Leaves glossy and retieulated above. ; Е 
Pedunele rather long. P. Knoopii. 
Peduncle short. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate. 2x 
Spikes very long, with elongated joints. 
Leaves moderate (4x6 em.). P. chrysocladon. 
Leaves large (5x10 em.). P. membranaceum. 
Spikes with short joints. P. quinquenervium. 
Leaves lanceolate. 
Moderate, subsessile. 
Shoots seareely keeled. Р. supravenulosum. 
Shoots sharply 2-lined. P. flavens. 
Large, more petioled. P. trisulcatum. 
Flowers in about 8 (6-10) series. 2 
Spikes relatively slender, short-stalked. P. Urbanianum. 
Spikes very stout: pedunele elongated. P. Lindavianum. 
Phoradendron pachyphyllum n. sp. 
More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with eata- 
phyls on all joints, androgynous?. Internodes moderate (3-5x60-80 mm.), 
nearly smooth, 2-edged. Cataphyls a single pair 10-15 mm. above the 
base, deltoid, keeled and pointed. Leaves round-elliptical, obtuse, 5-6x7-9 
