118 THE GENUS PHOEADENDEON 



PHORADENDRON MUCRONATUM (Krug & Urban). 



PJwradendrum mucronatum Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 34. 



1897. 

 Viscum mucronatum de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 282. 1830. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes short (2x10-20 mm.), papil- 

 lately roughened, acutely 4-angled, slightly flattened upwards. Cata- 

 phyls a single pair, nearly basal, notched. Leaves suborbicular or ob- 

 ovate, more or less mucronately very obtuse or emarginate, 1-2x1.5-3 cm., 

 rather abruptly petioled for 1-2 mm. Spikes more or less clustered, short 

 (5-10 mm.), with about 3 short 4- to 6-flowered joints: peduncle very 

 short : scales ciliolate. Fruit round-ovoid, 3-4 mm. long, verrucose : sepals 

 erect. Plate 172. 



Antillean and Caribbean regions^on Croton, Psidium, etc. The type 

 from Santo Domingo. 



Specimens examined: ANTILLES. SANTO DOMINGO (Bertero, the 

 type of V. mucronatum; Varamel, 1851 ; Fuertes, 240, 1175, 1393}. HAITI 

 (Buck, 319; Nash, 98}. JAMAICA (I Pur die, with sessile ovate obtuse 

 leaves 4x6 cm.). CARIBBEES. GUADELOUPE (Duss, 4156}. MARTINIQUE 

 (Duss, 100; Hahn, 296, 1383, 1385}. 



Phoradendron yucatanum n. sp. 



Scarcely forked, the moderate branches with basal cataphyls only, 

 androgynous?. Internodes short (2x10-30 mm.), somewhat velvety-papil- 

 late, ancipital or somewhat quadrately angled, slightly widened upwards. 

 Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal, bifid. Leaves cuneately obovate to 

 suborbicular, mucronately very obtuse to emarginate, 1-1.5x1.5-2.5 cm., 

 scarcely petioled. Spikes solitary, short, (5-10 mm.), with about 3 sub- 

 globose verticillately 4-flowered joints : peduncle 1 mm. long : scales cili- 

 olate. Fruit (immature) subglobose, scarcely 2 mm. in diameter, ver- 

 rucose : sepals erect. Plate 173. 



Yucatecan region. The type from Yucatan. 



Specimens examined: MEXICO. Yucatan, without other data (Gau- 

 mer, 561 in part, 1895, the type, in the herbarium of the Field Mu- 

 seum). 



PHORADENDRON OTTONIS Eichler. 



Plioradendron Ottonis Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. v. 5. pt. 2. p. 119. 

 1868. 



Pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal cataphyls only, 

 androgynous?. Internodes short (2x15-25 mm.), nearly smooth, little 

 quadrate, ancipitally dilated to a width of 5-7 mm. below the nodes. 



