AEQUATORIALES—CYMOSAE 157 
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PHORADENDRON HUALLAGENSE Ule. 
Phoradendron huallagense Ule, Verhandl. Bot. Verein Prov. Branden- 
burg. vol. 48. p. 158. 1906. 
Cymosely dichotomous, the moderately long slender branches there- 
fore with cataphyls on all joints, dioecious?. Internodes moderate (2x 
40-60 mm.), striate rather than granular, nearly terete but somewhat 
dilated below the nodes. Cataphyls a single nearly basal pair, triangular, 
pointed. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, mueronately acuminate to very obtuse, 
2-2.5x5-6 em., euneately subsessile. Spikes solitary, short (10, scarcely 
lengthening to 30 mm.), with about 4 short joints 4-flowered about the 
middle when pistillate; peduncle scarcely 2 mm. long. Fruit white, 
elongated, granular-roughened, 2x4 mm.: sepals erect, somewhat parted. 
—Plate 237. 
Andean region.—The type from Peru. 
Specimens examined:—PrmRv. Huallaga, Loreto (Ule, 6664,—the 
type). 
PHORADENDRON LAXIFLORUM Ule. 
Phoradendron laxiflorum Ule, Verhandl. Bot. Verein Prov. Brandenburg. 
vol. 48. p. 158. 1906. 
More or less pseudodichotomous or exeeptionally eymosely forked, the 
long slender branches with varying cataphyls, dioecious?. Internodes 
rather long (2x30-70 mm.), granular, nearly terete but somewhat dilated 
below the nodes. Cataphyls typically a single nearly basal pair, excep- 
tionally 3 pairs, and on one shoot absent from two internodes, triangular, 
keeled and pointed. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, aristately acuminate, 2.5-3x 
5-7 em., rather abruptly wing-petioled for scarcely 5 mm. Spikes soli- 
tary, rather long (25, lengthening to 40-50 mm.), with about 5 very slen- 
der joints some 10 mm. long 2-flowered near the top when pistillate: 
pedunele some 3 mm. long, with a pair of scales toward the base. Fruit 
(immature) subellipsoid, nearly smooth, 3x5 mm.: sepals erect, nearly 
meeting.—Plate 236. 
Brazilian region.— The type from Amazonas. 
Specimens examined :—BrazıL. Sta. Clara, Jurua, Amazonas (Ule, 
5251, Oct. 1900, —the type). 
55. CYMOSAE. 
Leaves often eomparatively large, drying thin and distinetly pal- 
mately fine-nerved. Shoots ancipital or terete. Branching cymosely 
dichotomous, each internode being succeeded by a spike and 2 axillary 
branches, so that all joints are really basal and hence with 1 or usually 2 
pairs of cataphyls. Flowers mostly in 6 series. Fruit round, nearly 
