AEQUATORIALES POLYGYNAE 85 



very obscurely subpinnately nerved. Spikes solitary, short (20 mm.), 

 with 2 or 3 somewhat fusiform joints some 10-flowered when pistillate as 

 the upper are, and twice as numerous when staminate, as are the lower, 

 in 44-2 or 6 series: peduncle scarcely 2 mm. long. Fruit (immature) 

 subglobose, nearly smooth, 3 mm. in diameter: sepals closely inflexed. 

 Plate 113. 



Venezuelan region. The type from Venezuela. 



Specimens examined: VENEZUELA. Tovar (Fendler, 1105, the 

 type). 



Phoradendron Jenmani n. sp. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with cata- 

 phyls on all joints, androgynous?. Internodes moderate (2-3x30-80 mm.), 

 smooth, nearly terete. Cataphyls a more or less closely basal pair fol- 

 lowed at 10-20 mm. by another, a third pair sometimes intervening, tubu- 

 lar-bifid. Leaves elliptical-obovate, very obtuse, 3-4x4-7 cm., cuneately 

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

 (20-30 mm.), with about 3 short slender joints about 4-flowered in 2 ser- 

 ies: peduncle 3 mm. long, usually with a basal pair of scales. Fruit 

 ovoid, nearly smooth, 4x6 mm. : sepals somewhat parted. Plate 114. 



Cayenne region. The type from Demerara. 



Specimens examined: BRITISH GUIANA. Bartica (Jenman, 2541, 

 -i 678 the type). 



21. POLYGYNAE. 



Leaves moderately large and broad, thick, basinerved. Shoots an- 

 cipital or 4-sided but not winged. Cataphyls a single pair, on the basal 

 joint only. Spikes long, with large scale-cups. Flowers in 4-[-2 or 6 

 series. Fruit round, smooth, with closed sepals. Andes. 



Leaves dull, without evident nerves. P. poly gy num. 



Leaves somewhat glossy, distinctly 3-nerved. P. Briquetianum. 



PHORADENDRON POLYGYNUM Eichler. 



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



p. 124. 1868. 

 Spiciviscum polygynum Karsten, Fl. Columb. vol. 1. fasc. 2. p. 73. pi. 36. 



1859. Schnitzlein, Iconographie. pi. 108. 



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

 gynous. Internodes rather long (2-5x30-100 mm.), smooth, the upper 

 rhombically ancipital or 4-sided, somewhat dilated below the nodes. Cata- 

 phyls a single pair, somewhat above the base, tubular. Leaves elliptical- 

 obovate to lanceolate, very obtuse, 3-5x6-12 cm., cuneately subsessile, dull 

 and very obscurely subpinnately nerved. Spikes more or less clustered. 



