AEQUATORIALES NITENTES 89 



3765).~Bahia (Blancliet). Rio Negro (v. Martins). Lagoa Santa (Warm- 

 ing, 15, 369}. Porto Alegre (Czermak & Reineck, 199, with 2-3 pairs 

 of cataphyls). Without locality (Lund, 21; Riedl). BOLIVIA. Sta. Cruz 

 (Kuntze, 1). Mattogrosso (Kuntze, 3, 36). E. Velasco (Kuntze, 4). 



24. NITENTES. 



Leaves moderate, elliptical to narrowly lanceolate, drying glossy and 

 bronzed or golden, basinerved. Shoots compressed for a time. Cataphyls 

 1-4 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers in 4-f- 2 series. Fruit globose, 

 with inflexed sepals. South America. 



Cataphyls not subtending spikes. 

 Leaves lance-elliptical. 



Rather large. P. pellucidulum. 



Rather small. P. holoxanthum. 



Leaves narrowly lanceolate. 



Spike-joints sometimes 20-flowered. P. nitidum. 



Spike-joints scarcely 6-flowered. P. Selloi. 



Upper cataphyls subtending flower-spikes. P. craspedophyllum. 



PHORADENDRON PELLUCIDULUM Eichler. 



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

 p. 112. 1868. 



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

 androgynous?. Internodes rather short (2-5x20-40 mm.), dilated below 

 the nodes. Cataphyls a basal pair, sometimes rather closely followed by 

 a second or third pair, annular. Leaves obliquely elliptical to lance- 

 oblong, very obtuse, 2.5-3.5x7-9 cm., cuneately petioled for about 5 mm. 

 Spikes more or less clustered, short (20 mm.), with about 3 slightly fusi- 

 form slender joints some 8- to 18-flowered in 4+2 series: peduncle very 

 short, usually with a basal pair of scales. Fruit reddish, ellipsoidal, 

 cellular-papillate : sepals closely inflexed. Plate 121. 



Brazilian region. The type from Rio Negro. 



Specimens examined: BRAZIL. San Carlos, Rio Negro (Spruce, 3480, 

 the type). 



PHORADENDRON HOLOXANTHUM Eichler. 



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

 p. 116. 1868. 



Somewhat pseudodichotomous or fasciculate, the moderate branches 

 with basal cataphyls only, androgynous?. Internodes rather short (2-3x 

 40-60 mm.), somewhat cellular-papillate, the upper rather sharply an- 

 cipital. Cataphyls a single pair towards the base or these followed by a 



