96 FLORA OF JAMAICA Phoradendron 



Intertiodes 3-7 cm. 1. Leaves 4-10 cm. 1., 1-6-4 cm. br., apex obtuse 

 or rounded, sessile but base narrowed and petiole-like, 5-nerved. Spikes 

 4-6-jointed, monoecious, androgynous, solitary or 3 together in the axils. 

 Flowers 2-6 highest male, deciduous, the rest all female. Beriies 3-3*5 

 mm. 1., white, obovate-globose or globose. 



2. P. rubrum Oriseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 314 (1860); branches 

 4-angled ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate or lanceolate- 

 linear ; spikes 1-2 cm. 1. ; flowers in 4 rows (with 2 odd at top 

 of internode), 6-18 in the joint ; berries smooth. — Kr. & JJrh. in 

 Engl. Bol. Jahrh. xxiv. 42. P. quadrangulare Kr. & Urh. torn, 

 cit. 35 (1897). Viscum foliis latioribus &c. Catesby Nat. Hist. 

 Carol, a. 81, t. 81. Viscum rubrum L. Sp. PI. 1023 (1753); 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 281. V. Kunthianum DC. Prodr. iv. 283 (1830). 

 V. quadrangulare DC, loc. cit. Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Krebs ; March. — Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, 

 Dominica, St. Vincent, Trinidad, tropical America to Argentina. 



Leaves 4-9 cm. 1., '5-1 -5 cm. br., apex obtuse or acute, sessile, but 

 base narrowed and petiole-like, with 3 (sometimes 6) nerves from the base. 

 Spikes 3-4-jointed, irregularly androgynous or female. Berries yellow or 

 red, shortly ovate or globulose, 3-4 mm. 1., crowned by the corolla, which 

 is almost always closed. 



Viscum rubrum L. was founded on Catesby's description and figure. 

 The corresponding specimens (from the Bahamas) are preserved among 

 Catesby's plants in Herb. Sloane (ccxxxii. 2 & 8). The stem is quadran- 

 gular, not terete and compressed, and the plant is identical with 

 P. quadrangulare Kr. & Urb. 



Var. gpaelle ; leaves lanceolate-linear, 4-5 cm. 1., • 5-1 cm. br. ; 

 spikes 2-3 cm. 1., 4-7-jointed, male or female or irregularly 

 androgynous; male flowers 22-30, female 10-18 in each joint; 

 berries, the younger obovate and slightly tuberculate-granulate 

 above, the mature oval-globulose, becoming smooth. — P. quad- 

 rangulare var. gracile Kr. <i Urb. torn. cit. 37. 



Near Gordon Town (male). Ball I Wareka Road; Windward Road; 

 Campbell 1 near Hope Gardens, 800 ft. ; above Hope Mines, 900 ft. ; 

 Halberstadt, 2900 ft. ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 6384, 6392, 6400, 6544, 6577, 6585, 

 6661, 6927. Growing on Quazuma tomentosa, Pithccolohium dulce and 

 Crescentia Cujete. 



3. P. vertieillatum comb. nov. ; branches 4-angled, becoming 

 2-angled or terete below, smooth ; leaves obovate to elliptical- 

 oblong ; spikes androgynous or subunisexual, ' 7-2 • 5 cm. 1. ; 

 flowers in 4 rows (with 2 odd &t top of internode), 4—12 in each 

 joint ; berries ovate or ovate-globose. — P. trinervium Griseh. 

 Fl. Br. W. Ind. 314 (1860); Kr. & Urb. in Engl. Bat. Jahrh. 

 xxiv. 37 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 208. Viscum vertieillatum L. Sp. 

 PI. ed. 2, 1452 (1763) (excl. syn. Sloane); Wright Mem. 303. 

 V. vertieillatum L. Sp. PI. 1023 (1753) is founded on Sloane 

 Hist. a. 93, t. 201, /. 2, which the specimen in Herb. Sloane 



