48 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 



8973; Rose & Rose, 11260}. Tlacuiltopec (Purpus, 4087). Cholula (Ar- 

 sene, 896, 1907 ; 7, 1908). Tepoxuchil (Arsene, 10, 1908). Jordana, To- 

 luca (? Gregg, 725, 1849). Chapala, Jalisco (Diguet, 109}. Fuente, 

 Sinaloa (Rose, Standley & Russell, 13520}. Aguascalientes, Colima 

 (Kerber, 88). Guaymas, Sonora (Rose, Standley & Russell, 12574}. 

 Ixmiquilpan, Hid. (Purpus, 1441; Rose, Painter & Rose, 9160}. Above 

 Cuernavaca (Pringle, 8009, 11160}. Cerro S. Felipe, Oaxaca (Conzatti, 

 2198; Conzatti & Gonzales, 72}. Mitla to Matatlan (Conzatti & Vazquez, 

 1476} . Without locality (Graham, 231; Pavon; Aschenborn, 428} . Tzin- 

 tzuntzan (Seler, 1249}. Sierra de Parras (Purpus, 5073}. 



PHORADENDRON TLACOLULENSE Loesener. 



Phoradendron tlacolulense Loesener, Bull. Herb. Boissier. vol. 2. p. 536. 



pi. 20. 1894. 

 Phoradendrum tlacolulense Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beiblatt 57. p. 



3. 1897. 



Not forked, the short but slender branches without cataphyls. dioe- 

 cious. Internodes short ( 1-3x20-30 mm. ) , densely villous with short yel- 

 low hairs like the foliage. Leaves orbicular to very broadly ovate or 

 obovate, very obtuse, .5-1.7x1-2 cm., abruptly contracted to sometimes 

 connate petioles 2-3 mm. long. Spikes mostly solitary, very short (5 

 mm.), somewhat villous, with 2 or 3 swollen joints about 6-flowered: 

 peduncle scarcely 1 mm. long. Fruit round-ovoid, about 4x5 mm., gla- 

 brous : sepals inflexed. Plate 50. 



Cordilleran region. The type from Oaxaca. 



Specimens examined : MEXICO. Mitla, Oax. (Seler, 119, the type). 

 Near Agua Escondida (Seler, 1763}. 



Phoradendron globuliferum n. sp. 



Not forked, the rather short branches without eataphyls, dioecious?. 

 Internodes short (2-3x10-20 mm.), more or less flattened, somewhat short - 

 villous like the foliage. Leaves shortly elliptical-obovate, very obtuse, 

 .5-1x2 cm., sessile. Spikes solitary, short (5 mm., lengthening to 20 mm. 

 in fruit), sparingly short-villous, with about 2 subglobose joints about 

 8- to 16-flowered when pistillate: peduncle scarcely 2 mm. long: scales 

 sparingly villous. Fruit (immature) subglobose, smooth, small: sepals 

 somewhat villous at base, suberect. Plate 51. 



Sonoran region of Mexico. The type from Sonora. 



Specimens examined: MEXICO. Guaymas, Sonora (Palmer, 88, 1887, 

 the type; Brandegee, 1892). 



