86 THE GENUS PHOBADENDBON 



very long (120-160 mm.), with about 8 stout oblong joints some 60- to 

 80-flowered in 4+2 or 6 series, those from the upper nodes pistillate, and 

 those from the lowermost staminate: peduncle 5 mm. long: scales toward 

 the base forming deep funnel-shaped tubes. Fruit (immature) subglo- 

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

 115-116. 



Venezuelan region. The type from Venezuela. 



Specimens examined: VENEZUELA. Tovar (Fendler, 1104). The 

 type, superbly pictured by its author, came from Lake Tacarigua, Cara- 

 cas (Karsten). 



PHORADENDRON BRIQUETIANUM Trelease. 



Plwradendron Briquetianum Trelease, Annuaire du Conserv. Jard. Bot., 

 Geneve, vol. 15-16. p. 351. 1913. 



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

 androgynous?. Internodes moderate (2-3x30-60 mm.), smooth, the up- 

 per ancipital and somewhat dilated below the nodes. Cataphyls a single 

 pair, about 8 mm. above the base, tubular. Leaves narrowly elliptical- 

 oblong to broadly obovate, mucronately subacute to very obtuse or emar- 

 ginate, 1 or 1.5-3x5-6 cm., cuneately subpetioled for 10 mm., rather evi- 

 dently about 3-nerved, drying glossy. Spikes mostly solitary, long (fully 

 50 mm.), with some 3 oblong joints about 80-flowcred in 6 series: pedun- 

 cle 5-8 mm. long: scales not very long. Fruit?. Plate 117. 



Andean region. The type from Colombia. 



Specimens examined: COLOMBIA. Bogota (Linden, 796, Dec. 1842, 

 the type ; Holton, 658) . 



22. OBLIQUAE. 



Leaves large, dimidiately elliptical or lanceolate, fleshy, basinerved. 

 Shoots nearly terete. Flowers in 4+2 or 6 series. Fruit round, smooth, 

 with closed sepals. Andes. 



Leaves very large and thick. P. obliquum. 



PHORADENDRON OBLIQUUM Eichler. 



Plwradendron obliquum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 



p. 134 m. 1868. 



Phoradendrum obliquum Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 2. 1897. 

 Viscum obliquum Presl, Epimel. Bot. p. 255. 1849. 



Large, brittle, with basal cataphyls only?, androgynous?. Internodes 

 thick and long (5x100 mm. or more), transversely rugulose, nearly terete, 

 somewhat enlarged at the nodes. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair some- 

 times closely followed by another, and usually with a pair some 20-30 



