102 THE GENUS PHOEADENDKON 



29. DOMINGENSES. 



Leaves moderate and lanceolate, or spatulate and rather small, rather 

 thin, basinerved. Shoots rhombically ancipital. Cataphyls a single pair, 

 on the basal joint only. Pistillate flowers mostly decussately paired, as 

 in Dendrophthora. Fruiting sepals not meeting. West Indies. 



Leaves spatulate, blunt. P. domingense. 



Phoradendron doming-ense n. comb. 



Loranthus domingensis Desvaux in Ham., Prodr. p. 33. 1825. 

 PhtJiirusa domingensis Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 



p. 134 i. 1868. 

 Dendropemon domingensis Van Tieghem, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. 42. 



p. 170. 1895. 

 Phoradendrum trinervium domingense Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 



24. p. 38. 1897. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate crowded branches with 

 basal cataphyls only, dioecious. Internodes short ( 1-3x10-25 or occasion- 

 ally 50 mm.), nearly smooth, rhombically ancipital or 4-angled, scarcely 

 dilated upwards. Cataphyls a single basal pair, somewhat annular. 

 Leaves spatulately obovate, very obtuse, 1-1.5x2.5-4.5 cm., cuneately long- 

 attenuate rather than petioled. Spikes mostly clustered, rather short 

 (10-15, lengthening to 30 mm.), with about 3 short slender joints decuss- 

 ately 2-flowered when pistillate : peduncle 3-4 mm. long, with a pair of 

 scales at base. Fruit golden orange, ellipsoidal, 3x5 mm. : sepals erect, 

 parted. Platel43 . 



Antillean region, on Croton, Exostema, Forestiera, Pisonia, Randia, 

 etc. The type from Hispaniola. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. JAMAICA (Britton, 807, 1895, 1927, 

 3068, 3795, 3905; Britton & Hollick, 1890; Campbell, 6383, 6387, 6398 

 in part, 6581, 6604, 6605, 6676,6714, 6781, 7264, 8138, 9568, 10175; Har- 

 ris, 6552, 10175} . 



30. RUBRAE. 



Leaves small and often spatulate, rather thin, basinerved. Shoots 

 rhombically ancipital or 4-angled. Cataphyls 1 or 2 pairs, on the basal 

 joint only. Flowers several, mostly in 4+2 series. Fruit usually red 

 or orange and very minutely cellular-papillate : sepals not meeting. West 

 Indies and Mexico to northern South America. 



Leaves obovate-spatulate. 

 West Indian. 



Young fruit elongated. P. trinervium. 



Young fruit rounded. P. rubrum. 



