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Specimens examined: ANTILLES. JAMAICA (Harris, 6393, taken 

 as the type, 6545, 6576, 6926: Britton, 813). PUERTO Rico (Bertero, 

 from Sprengel in the Presl herbarium; Kuntze, 426; Sintenis, 5409, 

 6758; Britton, Stevens & Hess, 2564; Stevens, 4818, 4819, 4828, 4887, 

 5210, 5211). CARIBBEES. MARTINIQUE (Iscrt, 1787). 



Phorandendron demerarae n. sp. 



More or less pseudodiehotomous, the rather long and spreading 

 branches with basal cataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes moderate 

 (2-5x30-60 mm.), the upper either ancipitally flattened or 4-winged. 

 Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal or 10-15 mm. above the base, some- 

 what tubular. Leaves more or less rhomboidally lanceolate, very obtuse, 

 2-3x5-7 cm., finely about 5-nerved, somewhat revolutely tapered for about 

 10 mm. rather than petioled, slightly clasping. Spikes more or less clus- 

 tered, long (40-90 mm.), with about 5 somewhat fusiform or turbinate 

 slender joints about 26-flowered in 4 series: peduncle 2 mm. long: scales 

 acutely ascending, scarcely ciliatc. Fruit white, subglobose, smooth, 3 

 mm. in diameter : sepals not meeting. Plate 91. 



Cayenne region ( ? exclusively) on other mistletoes. The type from 

 British Guiana. 



Specimens examined: DEMERARA (Jenman, 2546, Nov. 1886, the 

 type : noted by its collector as the most beautiful of the Guiana mistle- 

 toes). 



PHORADENDRON TOVARENSE (Urban). 

 Plioradendrum tovarense Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 8. 1897. 



Scarcely forked, the rather long branches with basal cataphyls only, 

 androgynous. Internodes moderate (3-4x40-80 mm.), ancipital, the up- 

 per acutely quadrangular or 4-winged. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly 

 basal. Leaves somewhat falcately lanceolate, very obtuse, 2-3x8-10 cm., 

 finely about 7-nerved, gradually narrowed for 15 or 20 mm. to the some- 

 what clasping base. Spikes mostly clustered, long (50-80, becoming 120 

 mm.), with half a dozen joints clavately some 30- to 50-flowered about 

 the middle in 6 or even 8 or 10 series: peduncle 2 or 3 to 7 mm. long: 

 scales subtruncately spreading, scarcely ciliate. Fruit globose, smooth, 

 3-4 mm. in diameter : sepals nearly meeting. Plate 93. 



Venezuelan region. The type from Venezuela. 



Specimens examined: VENEZUELA. Tovar (Fendler, 1761, the 

 type, 1110, 1111). 



