AEQUATOR1ALES ANDINAE 69 



Phoradendron semiteres n. sp. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes rather long (3-6x50-100 mm.), 

 smooth, ancipital or half-round becoming terete. Cataphyls a single pair, 

 tubular-bifid, scarious-margined. Leaves obliquely or subfalcately lance- 

 olate, obtuse, 1.5 or 2x8-9 or 3-4x12 cm., finely 5- to 7-nerved, cuneately 

 subpetioled for 10 or 15 mm. Spikes more or less clustered, moderate 

 (becoming 30 mm. in fruit), with about 3 ellipsoidal joints 10- to 24-flow- 

 ered in 4+2 series : peduncle 2 mm. long : scales scarious margined, not 

 ciliate. Fruit red, globose, nearly smooth, 3 mm. in diameter: sepals 

 rather closely inflexed. Plate 85. 



Andean region. The type from Bolivia. 



Specimens examined : BOLIVIA. Sirupaya, near Yanacachi, S. Yun- 

 gas (Buchtien, 1411, Dec. 17, 1906, the type). Cotana, at 2450 m. 

 (Bucliticn, 163}. PERU. Without locality (Pavon ). 



Phoradendron Verleyseni n. sp. 



Scarcely forked, the long branches with basal cataphyls only, dioe- 

 cious?. Internodes elongated (3-6x100 mm. or more), smooth, for a time 

 somewhat compressed but soon terete. Cataphyls a single pair, basal, 

 tubular-bifid, white-margined. Leaves (on the same plant) from more 

 or less falcately lanceolate, 2x7 cm., passing into almost truiicately ovate, 

 7x12 cm., obtuse or bluntly acuminate, about 7-nerved, sometimes rather 

 abruptly or subcordately contracted to the cuneately winged 10 mm. 

 petiole. Spikes often clustered, moderate (20 lengthening to 50 mm. in 

 fruit), with about 4 oblong joints some 20-flowered in 4+2 series: pedun- 

 cle scarcely 5 mm. long: scales scarcely ciliate, subtruncate or notched. 

 Fruit red, globose, smooth, 4 mm. in diameter : sepals closely inflexed. 

 Plate 86. 



Andean region. The type from Ecuador. 



Specimens examined : ECUADOR. Without locality (Verleysen, 148*, 

 the type, 148**, 1896; Sodiro, 19c, 28, 29, 30, 32, 148/29, 148/29b). 

 Aguirre (Sodiro, Dec. 1870). Quito (Jameson, 608, 1848). Perucho 

 (Sodiro, x, 1871) . Niebly (Sodiro, x, 1873) . 



With thicker more persistently compressed internodes, rather thicker 

 leaves, and more numerous flowers than in the type, it occurs from 

 Puente de Chimbo (Sodiro, 148/19) in a form which may be called var. 

 chimboensis. Plate 87. With spikes as in the last, but less compressed 

 internodes and small leaves some .5x5-6 cm., it becomes var. Fraseri, 

 without locality (Fraser, 1860). 



