122 THE GENUS PHOEADENDEON 



ately subsessile. Spikes mostly solitary, short (10-25 mm.), with 3-5 

 rounded joints about 6-flowered in 4+2 series: peduncle nearly sup- 

 pressed: scales scarcely ciliate. Fruit subglobose, granular, scarcely 

 3 mm. in diameter : sepals erect, parted. Plate 177. 



Andean region. The type from Peru. 



Specimens examined: PERU. Balsas to Calendin, Cajamarca (Web- 

 erbauer, 4251, the type). 



34. LIGAE. 



Leaves moderate or small, sharply basinerved though rather thick. 

 Shoots at first somewhat rhombically flattened. Cataphyls 1 or mostly 

 2 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers usually in 4+2 series. Fruit 

 somewhat papillate, usually with nearly closed sepals. Bolivian region. 

 Leaves narrow (under 10 mm.). 



Short (scarcely 40 mm.) : sepals parted. P. pruinosum. 



Moderately long (40-60 mm.) : sepals meeting. P. Liga. 



Leaves broad (20 mm. or more). P. Hieronymi. 



PHOBADENDRON PRUINOSUM (Urban). 



Phoradendrum pruinosum Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 14. 

 1897. 



Scarcely forked, the moderate branches with basal cataphyls only, 

 androgynous. Internodes rather short (2 or 3x6-15 mm.), smooth, at 

 first rather ancipitally flattened. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal, 

 pale-margined. Leaves elliptical-oblong, mucronately subacute, .5-.8x 

 2.5-4 cm., more or less evidently 3-nerved, cuneately subsessile. Spikes 

 mostly solitary, short (about 10 mm.), with 2-4 joints 2-flowered to about 

 6-flowered in 4+2 series: peduncle nearly suppressed: scales scarcely 

 ciliate. Fruit round-ovoid, nearly smooth, 3x4 mm. : sepals erect. Plate 

 178. 



Bolivian region ( ? exclusively) on Leguminosae. The type from 

 Argentina. 



Specimens examined : ARGENTINA. Catamarca (Lorentz, 382, 688, 

 the type). Rioja (Hieronymus & Niederlein, 165). 



PHORADENDRON LIGA Eichler. 



Phoradendron Liga Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. p. 



134m. 1868. 



PTioradendrum Liga Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 15. 1897. 

 Viscum Liga Gillies: Hooker & Arnott, in Hooker, Bot. Miscell. vol. 3. 



p. 355. 1833. 



