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margined. Leaves subspatulately oblanceolate-oblong, subacute to very 

 obtuse or slightly emarginate, .5-1x3-5 cm., attenuately subsessile. Spikes 

 mostly solitary, short (10, lengthening to 20 mm.), with about 3 short 

 slender but somewhat fusiform joints about 10-flowered in 4-f2 series: 

 peduncle 1-2 mm. long. Fruit subellipsoid, sparingly but evidently low- 

 warty, 3 mm. in diameter : sepals inflexed and closely meeting or slightly 

 parted. Plate 163. 



Antillean region. The type from Jamaica. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. JAMAICA (Harris, 6392, 1896, tak- 

 en as the type, 6384, 6400, 6544, 6585, 6661; Hansen, 1897; Campbell, 

 6384, 6400, 1896 ; Britton, 2991, 3283, 3668) . 



A Jamaican specimen (Ball, 1882), with staminate spikes 30-35 mm. 

 long, their half-dozen joints somewhat turbinately about 20-flowered, 

 may be known as var. Ballii. Plate 163. 



Phoradendron microphyllum n. comb. 



Viscum microphyllum Pohl in de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 283. 



1830. 

 Phoradendron rubrum var. microphylla Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. 



vol. 5. pt. 2. p. 120. 1868. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, androgynous ?. Internodes rather short ( 1-2x20-40 mm. ) , 

 smooth, rather rhombically 4-sided becoming terete. Cataphyls a single 

 pair, nearly basal or as much as 5 mm. above the base, short and spread- 

 ing. Leaves oblanceolate-spatulate, mucronately rather obtuse, .3-.7x 

 2.5-4 cm., slenderly attenuate at base. Spikes solitary, short (scarcely 10, 

 lengthening to 30 mm.), with about 3 slender joints scarcely 10-flowered 

 in 4-J-2 series: peduncle 2-5 mm. long. Fruit rather ellipsoid, smooth. 

 3x4 mm. : sepals closely inflexed. Plate 164. 



Brazilian region. The type from Tingua. 



Specimens examined: BRAZIL. Tingua (Pohl, 245, 4583 the type 

 of V. microphyllum). Rio de Janeiro (Glaziou, 2598, 8728). Alagoas 

 (Gardner, 1324, 1325, from which the fruit is described). 



PHORADENDRON AFFINE Nuttall. 



Phoradendron affine Nuttall, Journ. Philad. Acad. n. s. vol. 1. p. 185. 



1847. 

 Viscum affine Pohl in de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 281. 1830. 



Somewhat pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal cata- 

 phyls only, androgynous?. Internodes moderate (2x30-50 mm.), smooth, 

 acutely quadrangular above. Cataphyls a single pair toward the base, 



