BOREALES LONGIFOLIAE S3 



scarcely nerved. Spikes mostly clustered, rather short (scarcely 25 mm.), 

 yellow-tomentulose, with about 3 rounded joints some 15-flowered when 

 pistillate : peduncle scarcely 3 mm. long : scales gray-tomentulose, scarcely 

 ciliate. Fruit (immature) ovoid, 3 mm. in diameter, yellow-tomentulose: 

 sepals closely inflexed. Plate 59. 



Western Sierra Madre region. The type from Tepic. 



Specimens examined : MEXICO. Sta. Teresa, Tepic (Rose, 3409, Aug. 

 8, 1897, the type). Colomas, Sinaloa (Rose, 1712). 



Phoradendron longifolium Eichler, n. sp. 



Phoradendron longifolium Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. part 



2. p. 107, 134 m, name only. 

 Viscum longifolium Zuccarini MS., fide Eichler, and in herb. 



Not forked, the long rather slender branches without cataphyls, dioe- 

 cious?. Internodes elongated (2-4x40-75 mm.), resinous-dotted, micro- 

 scopically tomentose like the foliage, little dilated. Leaves linear-oblong, 

 rather acute, .5-.7xlO-14 cm., cuneately subpetioled for about 10 mm., 

 scarcely nerved. Spikes often clustered, rather short (scarcely 25 mm.), 

 tcmentose, with 3 or 4 oblong joints about 30-flowered : peduncle 2 mm. 

 long: scales tomentose and long-ciliate. Fruit?. Plate 60. 



Cordilleran region of Mexico. The type from Oaxaca. 



Specimens examined: MEXICO. San Pedro Nolasco, Oaxaca (Kar- 

 winski, 1833, the type: occurring in the Munich herbarium, von Mar- 

 tius' herbarium at Brussels, the Vienna herbarium, and the Delessert 

 herbarium at Geneva). 



Phoradendron uspantanum n. sp. 



Not forked, the rathed long and stout branches without cataphyls, 

 dioecious. Internodes rather long (4x70 mm.), evanescently sparsely 

 hispid like the foliage, more or less ancipital, dilated at the nodes to 

 nearly 10 mm. Leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, about 1x15 

 cm., cuneately subpetioled for 10 or 15 mm., prominently 5-nerved and 

 somewhat veiny. Spikes more or less clustered, moderate (25-40 mm.), 

 nearly glabrous, with 3-5 narrowly oblong joints about 50-flowered when 

 staminate: peduncle 2-4 mm. long: scales glabrate, ciliate. Fruit?. 

 Plate 61. 



Guatemalan region. The type from Guatemala. 



Specimens examined: GUATEMALA. San Miguel Uspantan, Quiche 

 (Heyde & Lux, 3141, Apr. 1892, the type). 



