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or even 45 mm.), with about 3 slender joints mostly 10- to 20-flowered in 

 4+2 series: peduncle 2-4 mm. long, usually followed by a sterile joint: 

 scales white-margined. Fruit variously said to be white or yellow, ovoid, 

 3x4-5 mm., smooth, golden-glistening when dry, like other young parts 

 of the plant : sepals closely inflexed. Plate 134. 



Antillean and Caribbean regions. The type from Puerto Rico. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. PUERTO Rico (Bertero, 439 in 

 part, the type; Eggers, 880, 1147; Sintenis, 3391, 887, 4894, 5297, 6060; 

 Garber, 11; Gundlach, 1472; Krug, 537; Stdhl, 1043b; Britton, Britton & 

 Marble, 1946; Britton & Cowell, 1301, 1352; Britton & Shafer, 1831; Un- 

 derwood & Griggs, 671; Stevens, 5825, 5825a, 5899, 5931}. ST. THOMAS 

 (Shafer & Fitch, 1472}. CARIBBEES. ST. CROIX (Ricksecker, 302}. GUADE- 

 LOUPE (Duss, 2966, 2969 in part, 3902 in part, 4418 in part). DOMINICA 

 (Imray, 212; Eggers, 926}. MARTINIQUE (Duss, 101 in part, 1374b in 

 part, 4418 in part; Hahn, 550, 733, 1132}. ST. VINCENT (Smith, 245 in 

 part, 1305; Herb. Hooker.; Herb. Haynald.}. 



PHORADENDRON ANCEPS (Krug & Urban). 



Phoradendrum anceps Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 40. 1897. 

 Viscum anceps Sprengel, Syst. vol. 1. p. 487. 1825. de Candolle, Prodro- 

 mus. vol. 4. p. 282. 



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

 androgynous. Internodes moderate (2-3x40-50 mm.), smooth, compressed 

 or 2-keeled. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal, slightly tubular, white- 

 margined. Leaves somewhat falcately lanceolate, very obtuse, 2-4x9-15 

 cm., cuneately petioled for 10-15 mm. Spikes more or less clustered, 

 rather short (15-20, lengthening to 30 mm.), with about 3 slender joints 

 rather turbinately some 18-flowered in 4+2 series: peduncle scarcely 

 2 mm. long: scales slightly scarious-margined. Fruit said to be yellow, 

 subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter, smooth: sepals somewhat parted. Plate 

 135. 



Antillean region. The type from Santo Domingo. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. SANTO DOMINGO (Bertero, 439 in 

 part, the type collection of V. anceps, at the National Museum of Prag, 

 from Sprengel ; also, as from Puerto Rico, under the same number, asso- 

 ciated with P. chrysocarpum; Wright, Parry & Brummel, 458; Poiteau, 

 from Ventenat's herbarium; Eggers, 1682}. 



PHORADENDRON HARTII (Krug & Urban). 

 Phoradendrum Hatrtii Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. v. 24. p. 40. 1897. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the elongated branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes rather long (2-3x40-80 mm.), 



