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448; Nash & Taylor, 1322). SANTO DOMINGO (Bertero; Ehrenberg; 

 Wright, Parry & Brummcl, 467; Eggers. 1651, 1983; Fuertes, 383, 827; 

 t. Tuerckheim, 2616; Taylor, 223, 338, 481, 497; Emanuel, 1). JAMAICA 

 (Hitchcock, 1890; Hansen, 1310; Britton, 2840, 3668; Shafer, 159, 296, 

 363, 563, 815, 1109, 1622; Harris, 6577, 6584, 6927 bearing Cuscuta; 

 Brown, 394; Maxon, 1675). PUERTO Rico (Bertero, 8, 1234 the type 

 collection of Viscum angustifolium Bertero; Eggers, 965; Cowell, 753; 

 Stahl, 45, 1043; Heller, 205, 6186; Sintenis, 885, 887b, 3035, 3292b, 3912, 

 5562, 6624, 7601; Garber, 24; Krug, 538; Schwancke; Kuntze, 495; Un- 

 derwood & Griggs, 211; Britton & Marble, 2245 with yellow fruit; Brit- 

 ton & Shafer, 1644; Stevens, 5212, 5825b, 5826-9, 5907, 5908, 5935; Stev- 

 ens & Hess, 4563, 4988; Hess, 5402; Brother Hioram, 1912) . CARIBBEES. 

 ANTIGUA (Nicholson, 16). GUADELOUPE (Sprengel). DOMINICA (Eggers, 

 93). ^ 



With stouter (2-4x30-60 mm.), smooth, acutely quadrangular, but lit- 

 tle dilated internodes, and larger elliptical-lanceolate leaves 1-2x5-9 cm., 

 mostly 5-nerved and somewhat veiny, and spike-joints about 18 r flowered, 

 it is var. orientalis (PI. 161). Eastern Cuba (Britton, 1985, 2119 the 

 type; Britton, Con-ell cf- Shafer. 12919, and, in an equally long- but 

 rather narrower-leaved form, f. longa, PI. 161, Britton, 2415). Puerto 

 Rico (Underwood & Griggs, 383). 



Phoradendron Townsendi n. sp. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, androgynous?. Internodes rather short (2-3x15-35 mm.), 

 cellular-papillate, somewhat rhombically quadrangular. Cataphyls a sin- 

 gle nearly basal pair, annular-bifid, white-margined. Leaves oblance- 

 olate-oblong or subspatulate, mucronate but very obtuse, 1-2x4-6 cm., 

 cuneately narrowed rather than petioled. Spikes more or less clustered, 

 short (10 mm.), with about 3 short joints scarcely 6-flowered in 2, 4 or 

 4-f-2 series: peduncle scarcely 1 mm. long. Fruit?. Plate 162. 



Western insular region of Mexico. The type from Socorro. 



Specimens examined: MEXICO. Socorro, Revillagigedo Islands (An- 

 thony, 1897 ; Townsend, Mar. 1899 ; Barkelew, 177, 1903, the type). 



Phoradendron gracile n. comb. 



Phoradendrum quadrangulare gracile Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. 

 p. 37. 1897. 



Scarcely forked, the moderate branches with basal cataphyls only, 

 androgynous. Internodes rather short (1-2x25-30 mm.), smooth, acutely 

 quadrangular. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal, annular-bifid, white- 



