AEQUATORIALES—CYMOSAE 161 
length 100 mm.), with some 7 stout oblong joints about 50-flowered in 
6 series: peduncle 5 mm. long, usually with a basal pair of scales. Fruit 
(immature) subglobose: sepals inflexed.— Plate 244. 
Brazilian region.— The type from Campinas. 
Specimens examined :—Braziz, Campinas (de Campos Novaes, 417 
in part,—the type). 
Phoradendron Holtonis n. sp. 
Cymosely diehotomous, the rather elongated branches therefore with 
cataphyls on all joints, androgynous?. Internodes rather long (2-4x 
60-100 mm.), at first rhombic. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair followed 
by a seeond pair 20-25 mm. higher, tubular, blunt and somewhat white- 
margined. Leaves somewhat faleately lanceolate, obtuse, 2.5-3x8 cm., 
involutely subsessile. Spikes mostly solitary, very long (60-100 mm.), 
with some 4 fusiformly thickened joints turbinately 40- to 50-flowered 
in 6 series: peduncle 3 mm. long. Fruit (immature) subglobose, nearly 
smooth, 4 mm. in diameter: sepals inflexed.— Plate 244. 
Andean region.— The type from Colombia. 
Specimens examined :—CoLomBIa. Fusagasuga (I. Р. Holton, 655,— 
the type, and probably also 654). 
Phoradendron Lindeni n. sp. 
Cymosely dichotomous, the rather long slender branches therefore 
with cataphyls on all joints, androgynous?. Internodes long (2-3x50-100 
mm.), quickly terete. Cataphyls a single nearly basal pair, scarcely 
tubular, acute, white-margined. Leaves orbicular to obovate, obtuse or 
emarginate, about 5x6 em., abruptly narrowed to a petiole 3 mm. long. 
Spikes mostly solitary, rather long (60 mm. or more), with 4 or 5 stout 
cylindrical joints some 50-flowered in about 8 series: peduncle 3-4 mm. 
long. Fruit?.— Plate 245, 
Andean region (? exclusively) on Capparis.—The type from Colom- 
bia. 
Specimens examined :—CoLomBIa. Espinal. Valley of the Magda- 
lena (Linden, 846, Dec. 1842, —the type). 
