AEQUATOEIALES NEEVOSAE (.3 



petioled for 10-15 mm. Spikes mostly clustered, rather long (at length 

 40 or 50 mm.), with about half a dozen moderate joints some 16- to 24- 

 flowered in 4, 4+2 or 6 series : peduncle 2 mm. long : scales evanescently 

 somewhat ciliate. Fruit subglobose, smooth, 4 mm. in diameter: sepals 

 closely inflexed. Plate 73. 



Eastern Sierra Madre region ( ? exclusively) on Quercus. The type 

 from eastern Mexico. 



Specimens examined: MEXICO. Zacuapam, V. C. (Purpus, Feb. 

 1912, the type). Mirador (Liebmann, 4, 3097, 1842, P. Reichenbach- 

 ianum Oliver) . Without locality ( 1 Hdhn, 1865-6) . 



PHORADENDRON NERVOSUM Oliver. 



Phoradendron nervosum Oliver, Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. Foren. 

 Kjobenhavn. 1864. p. 175. 



Scarcely forked, the rather long slender branches with basal cataphyls 

 only, dioecious. Internodes moderate (2-3x50-70 or even 150 mm.), an- 

 cipital becoming terete. Cataphyls a single pair, basal, scarcely tubular, 

 white-margined. Leaves obliquely lanceolate, attenuately rather obtuse, 

 1.5 or 2 to 4 or 5x9-12 or even 17 cm., varying into orbicular and 7x8 cm., 

 5- or 7-nerved and veiny, cuneately petioled for 10 mm. Spikes mostly 

 clustered, rather long (20-30 becoming 40-60 mm.), smooth, with mostly 

 4 or 6 joints turbinately 12- to 30-flowered in 4 or 4-(-2 series : peduncle 

 3-5 mm. long: scales and receptacular cups evanescently short-ciliate. 

 Fruit subglobose, reddish, 3 mm. in diameter, at length finely granular : 

 sepals inflexed. Plates 8, 74. 



Eastern Sierra Madre region, on Anona, Liquidambar, Pyrus, Quer- 

 cus, etc. The type from eastern Mexico. 



Specimens examined: MEXICO. VERA CRUZ. Papantla (Liebmann, 

 5, 3089). Colipa (Liebmann, 5, 3090, the type). Cordoba (Bourgeau, 

 1473, 1482, 1483; Kerber, 34). Orizaba (Botteri, 873; Mueller, 1219; 

 Bourgeau, 2546). Paso Macho (Wawra, 865). Fortin (Kerber, 351). 

 El Mirador (Endlich, 1138; Ross, 718). Sta. Ana (Bourgeau, 3034). 

 Zacuapam (Purpus, 2877, 1912). Jalapa (Pringle, 8191). Without lo- 

 cality (Herb. Grisebach.). "Mexico und Umgebung" (Wawra, 420). 



Phoradendron Conzattii n. sp. 



Not forked, the long stout branches with basal cataphyls only, dioe- 

 cious. Internodes moderate (3-6x25-60 mm.) rough-papillate, ancipital 

 and somewhat dilated becoming terete. Cataphyls a single pair, above 

 the base, acute, spreading. Leaves falcately lanceolate, submucronately 

 obtuse to very long-attenuate, 3-4x15-30 cm., 5- to 7-nerved and somewhat 



