AEQUATOEIALE8 CHEYSOCARPAE 99 



smooth, the upper somewhat ancipitally compressed. Cataphyls mostly 

 a single pair, nearly basal, tubular-bifid, white-margined. Leaves more 

 or less falcately lanceolate, obtuse, 1.5-2.5x8-12 cm., cuneately narrowed 

 below rather than petioled. Spikes mostly clustered, rather short (20 

 mm.), with about 4 oblong joints some 10-flowered in 4-J-2 series: pedun- 

 cle almost suppressed: scales somewhat ciliate. Fruit ovoid, 3x4 mm., 

 smooth : sepals closely inflexed. Plate 136. 



Caribbean region. The type from Trinidad. 



Specimens examined: CARIBBEES. TRINIDAD (Hart, 6101, Aug. 1896, 

 the type; Lunt, 6117}. 



PHORADENDRON HAITENSE (Urban). 



Phoradendrum haitense Urban, Symbolae Antillanae. vol. 5. p. 334. 1907. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the elongated branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes short (2-3x30 mm.), smooth, 

 ancipital and somewhat dilated upwards. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair, 

 often with a second pair scarcely 5 mm. higher, scarcely tubular, white- 

 margined. Leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate, abruptly very obtuse, 

 1x7-10 cm., long-attenuate into the subpetiolar base. Spikes mostly soli- 

 tary, moderate (25-30 mm.), with about 3 slender joints 2- to 6- or 10- 

 flowered in 2, 4 or 4+2 series : peduncle about 3 mm. long, usually with a 

 pair of basal scales. Fruit subglobose, 3 mm. in diameter, smooth : sepals 

 parted. Plate 135. 



Antillean region ( ? exclusively) on Swietenia. The type from Haiti. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. HAITI (Picarda, 1666, July 1897, 

 the type, 1640). 



PHORADENDRON WATTII (Krug & Urban). 

 Phoradendrum Wattii Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. v. 24. p. 43. 1897. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the long branches with basal cata- 

 phyls only, dioecious. Internodes moderate (2-3x30-50 mm.), minutely 

 papillate and for a time varnished like the young foliage, somewhat com- 

 pressed rather than ancipital. Cataphyls a single pair 2-3 mm. above 

 the base, or 2 pairs the first nearly basal and the second, exceptionally 

 fertile, some 5 mm. higher, acute. Leaves more or less falcately elliptical 

 to broadly oblanceolate, very obtuse, 1.5-2.5x4-7 cm., cuneately sub- 

 petioled for about 5 mm. Spikes more or less clustered, about 4-jointed : 

 short (10 mm.), with short 2-flowered joints when pistillate, and longer 

 (30 mm.), with long 10- to 20-flowered joints when staminate: peduncle 

 nearly suppressed : scales and deep reeeptacular cups ciliate. Fruit pale 



