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Leaves elongated (10-15 cm.). 



Relatively narrow (scarcely 2.5 cm.). 



Narrowly lanceolate. Venezuela. P. tubulosum. 



Broadly lanceolate. Colombia. P. Trianae. 



Relatively broad (3-7 cm.). 



Lanceolate. Bolivia. P. semiteres. 



Ovate-lanceolate. Ecuador. P. Verleyseni. 



Leaves rather short (6-7 cm.) and broad. Venezuela. P. granaticolum. 



PHORADENDRON TUBULOSUM (Urban) . 



Phoradendrum tubulosum Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 5. 

 1897. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes moderate (2-3x25-60 mm.), 

 smooth, from ancipital becoming terete. Cataphyls basal, a single pair, 

 tubular, scarious-margined. Leaves falcately lanceolate, obtuse, 2-2.5x14 

 cm., finely about 7-nerved, cuneately subpetioled for some 10 mm. Spikes 

 more or less clustered, moderate (becoming 30-40 mm. in fruit), with 3 

 or 4 joints turbinately about 18-flowered in 4+2 series : peduncle about 

 3 mm. long: scales scarcely ciliate, rather acutely divergent. Fruit (im- 

 mature) subglobose, nearly smooth, 3 mm. in diameter : sepals closely in- 

 flexed. Plate 84. 



Venezuelan region. The type from Venezuela. 



Specimens examined. VENEZUELA. Tovar (Fendler, 1106, the 

 type). Galipan (Kuntze, 1579). 



PHORADENDRON TRIANAE Eichler. 



Phoradendron Trianae Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. p. 

 117. 1868. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes moderate (3-4x50-70 mm.), 

 smooth, very acutely ancipital. Cataphyls a single pair, basal, deeply 

 parted, somewhat scarious-margined. Leaves subfalcately lanceolate, 

 obtuse, about 2.5x9 cm., somewhat indistinctly 5- to 7-nerved, cuneately 

 wing-petioled for 10-15 mm. Spikes more or less clustered, moderate (20, 

 lengthening to 30 mm.) , with about 3 rather fusiform joints some 36-flow- 

 ered in 4-J-2 series : peduncle 2 mm. long : scales somewhat scarious-mar- 

 gined, scarcely ciliate, subtruncate. Fruit red, globose, smooth, 3-4 mm. 

 in diameter : sepals rather closely inflexed. Plate 84. 



Andean region. The type from Colombia. 



Specimens examined: COLOMBIA. Andes de Herve, Antioquia, a 

 1800 m. (Triatia, 2778, the type number). "Colombia and Ecuador" 

 Lehmann, 6667) . 



