96 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 



long, with a pair of scales near the base. Fruit greenish yellow, ellip- 

 soidal, 3x5 mm., wrinkled : sepals somewhat parted. Plate 131. 



Antillean region ( ? exclusively) on Ficus. The type from Jamaica. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. JAMAICA (Harris, 9220, Apr. 19, 

 1906, the type; Britton & Hottick, 1861}. 



PHORADENDRON CAMPBELLII (Krug & Urban). 



Phoradendrum Campbellii Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 44. 

 1897. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the elongated spreading branches 

 with basal cataphyls only, dioecious. Internodes rather short ( 1-3x15-40 

 mm.), smooth, slightly varnished when young, rhombically ancipital and 

 slightly dilated upwards. Cataphyls a single nearly basal pair, rather 

 spreading. Leaves broadly lanceolate and blunt-acuminate to oblance- 

 olate and very obtuse, 1.5-3x4-8 cm., cuneately subsessile. Spikes more 

 or less clustered, short (10-15 mm.), with 3 or 4 short slender joints 

 decussately 2-flowered or occasionally subverticillately 4-flowered, when 

 pistillate: peduncle scarcely 2 mm. long, sometimes with a second pair 

 of scales. Fruit (immature) ellipsoid, nearly smooth: sepals somewhat 

 parted. Plate 132. 



Antillean region ( ? exclusively) on Pisonia and Nectandra. The 

 type from Jamaica. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. JAMAICA. Wareka Road (Camp- 

 bell, 6398 in part, Aug. 10, 1896 the type, 6604) . Parish of Manchester 

 (Britton, 3703, 3734, 3765, 3773). 



PHORADENDRON GRISEBACHIANUM Eichler. 



Phoradendron Grisebachianum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. 



pt. 2. p. 127 without name, 134 m. 1868. 

 Plwradendrum Grisebachianum Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 45. 1897. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, dioecious. Internodes rather short (2-3x20-40 mm.), 

 smooth, rhombically ancipital or quadrangular, slightly enlarged up- 

 wards. Cataphyls a single pair 2-4 mm. above the base, sometimes fol- 

 lowed by a second pair some 10 mm. higher, annular. Leaves broadly 

 lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate to subelliptical, very obtuse or bluntly sub- 

 acuminate, 2.5-4x5-8 or even 8x15 cm., attenuately or rather abruptly 

 wing-petioled for 5-10 mm. Spikes solitary, moderate (30, lengthening to 

 40 mm.), with about 4 slender joints subverticillately 4- to 8-flowered 

 about the top when pistillate and some 18- to 24-flowered in 6 series when 

 staminate : peduncle 2-5 mm. long, sometimes with a second pair of scales. 

 Fruit orange-scarlet, tipped with yellow, globose, not warty but fleshy 



