100 THE GENUS PHOEADENDEON 



yellow, ellipsoidal, 3x5 mm., somewhat wrinkled in drying: sepals trun- 

 cately inflexed. Plates 137, 138. 



Antillean region, on Coccoloba, Colubrina, Hypelate, Laguncularia, 

 Piscidia, etc. The type from Jamaica. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. JAMAICA (Hitchcock, Dec. 14. 1890, 

 to be taken as type; Watt, 6221; Campbell, 6385, 6386, 6401; Harris, 

 6395, 6402, 6599, 6680, 6711, 9696; Harris & Britton, 10519; Britton, 

 355; Marble, 231}. 



A staminate specimen (Harris, 10188} with the spikes some 40 mm. 

 long, with joints as much as 10 mm. long and 26-flowered, growing on 

 other mistletoes, may be differentiated as var. product a. Plate 138. 



Phoradendron Helleri n. sp. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes rather short (2-3x20-50 mm.), 

 cellular-papillate or smooth, the upper compressed. Cataphyls a single 

 pair, nearly basal, slightly tubular, white-margined. Leaves subelliptical. 

 very obtuse, 1.5-2x3-5 cm., cuneately petioled for 5-10 mm. Spikes more 

 or less clustered, rather short (15-25 mm.), with abqjut 3 slender joints 

 some 10- to 18-flowered in 4-J-2 series : peduncle 2-4 mm. long, sometimes 

 with 1 or 2 lower pairs of white-margined scales. Fruit drying rusty 

 red, ovoid, 4 mm. in diameter, somewhat cellular-papillate, when young 

 golden-glistening like other young parts, as is general in the group : 

 sepals nearly or quite closed. Plate 139. 



Antillean region. The type from Puerto Rico. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. PUERTO Rico. East of Ponce 

 (Heller, 6188, Dec. 3, 1902, the type). Colonia S. Miguel ( ? Britton & 

 Shafer, 1640}. Yauco (Stevens, 5825c}. 



A Santo Domingan plant (Fuertes, 1531b} with the stem and foliage 

 drying red, otherwise intermediate between this and the following spe- 

 cies but with red fruit, may be known as var. sanguinea. Plate 140. 



Phoradendron Dussii n. comb. 



Phoradendrum chrysocarpum Dussii Urban, Symbolae Antillanae. vol. 5. 

 p. 333. 1907. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal 

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

 smooth, the upper ancipitally compressed. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair, 

 usually followed by a .second 3-8 mm. higher, tubular-bifid, white-mar- 

 gined. Leaves elliptical tending towards oblanceolate or obovate, very 

 obtuse, sometimes mucronulate, 1-2 or 2.5x2-4 cm., cuneately subpetioled 

 for some 3 mm. Spikes more or less clustered, short (15, lengthening to 



