97 



and drying very rugose, 3 mm. in diameter : sepals not meeting. Plate 

 133. 



Antillean region ( ? exclusively) on Coccoloba, Ficus and Nectandra. 

 The type from Jamaica. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. JAMAICA (Alexander; Britton, 965, 

 977, 1467, 3144, 3215, Britton & Hollick, 2772; Crawford, 783; Brown, 

 51; Hansen, 1897; Harris, 6341, taken as the type, there being no rep- 

 resentative in Grisebach's herbarium; 6376, 6397, 10202, 10861). 



28. CHRYSOCARPAE. 



Leaves moderate, lanceolate or elliptical to round-obovate, rather 

 opaque and dull but often raised-nerved from the base. Shoots mostly 

 2-edged for a time, sometimes at first rhombically 4-lined. Cataphyls 1 

 or exceptionally 2 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers variously in 

 2, 4, or 4-J-2 series. Fruit ovoid, mostly golden-dotted, essentially smooth, 

 with closely inflexed sepals. West Indies. 



Leaves lanceolate : flowers numerous. 



Broad (up to 4 cm.). P. chrysocarpum. 



Moderate ( scarcely 3 cm. ) . 



Stem sharply ancipital. P. anceps. 



Stem quickly terete. P. Hartii. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate : flowers few, sometimes only 2. P. haitense. 



Leaves elliptical. 



Strongly nerved : pistillate flowers 2. P. Wattii. 



Obscurely nerved. 

 Stem ancipital. 



Leaves petioled. P. Helleri. 



Leaves subsessile. P. Dussii. 



Stem quickly terete. P. crenulatum. 



Leaves round-obovate. P. Gundlachii. 



PHORADENDRON CHRYSOCARPUM (Krug & Urban). 



PJioradendrum chrysocarpum Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 39. 



1897. 

 P. martinicense Grisebach, Fl. Br. W. I. p. 314. 1860, in part. 



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

 androgynous. Internodes moderate (2-3x40-60 mm.), smooth, sharply 

 ancipital or at first rhombically compressed. Cataphyls a single pair, 

 nearly basal, scarcely tubular, white-margined. Leaves multiform, from 

 rather narrowly lanceolate to round-ovate, characteristically ovate-lance- 

 olate, mucronately very obtuse, 2.5-4x6-8 cm., cuneately narrowed for 

 5-10 mm. rather than petioled. Spikes mostly clustered, moderate ( 15-35 



