AEQUATORIALES LIGAE 123 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long very slender branches 

 with basal cataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes moderate (1-2x25-60 

 mm.), smooth, at first rhombic but soon terete. Cataphyls a single pair 

 toward the base, or 2 pairs some 10 mm. apart, scarious-margined. Leaves 

 more or less falcately oblong to narrowly lanceolate, mucronately acute, 

 .5-1x4-6 cm., 3- to 5-nerved, gradually attenuate at base for about 5 mm. 

 rather than petioled. Spikes mostly solitary, moderate (20, becoming 

 30 mm.), with about 4 slender joints some 10- to 18-flowered in 4-J-2 

 series : peduncle about 5 mm. long : scales acute, scarious-margined, little 

 ciliate. Fruit red, subglobose, minutely cellular-papillate, 4 mm. in 

 diameter : sepals closely inflexed. Plates 179, 180. 



Bolivian region. The type from Argentina. 



Specimens examined : ARGENTINA. Los Cerillos de S. Juan ( Gillies, 

 the type of V. Liga). Cordoba (Lorentz, 395, 431, 471, 478; Hierony- 

 mus, 729; Kurtz, 8434). S. Jose (Lorentz & Hieronymus, 219}. Colonia 

 Benites (Stuckert, 16437}. Bellarita Corrientes (Stuckert, 14569). Cha- 

 carita de los Padres (Lorentz & Hieronymus, 420). Fuerte (Lorentz, 

 344). Catamarca (Kurtz, 6772). PARAGUAY. Sta. Elisa, Gran Chaco 

 (Eojas, 2732; Hassler, 2732). Concepcion (Hassler, 7551). Asuncion 

 (Balansa, 2496). Yaguaron (Balansa, 3218). Central Paraguay ( f M o- 

 rong, 618). BOLIVIA. S. Pablo (Kuntze, 5). 



Phoradendron Hieronymi n. sp. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the moderate branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, androgynous?. Internodes rather short (2-3x20-40 mm.), 

 smooth, somewhat compressed or ancipital. Catapbyls usually a basal 

 pair and a second pair some 5 mm. higher, ciliate. Leaves more or less 

 obliquely elliptical to obovate, obtuse, 2-3x4-6 cm., distinctly 5- or 7- 

 nerved, cuneately subpetioled for about 5 mm. Spikes mostly solitary, 

 rather short (15-20 or 25 mm.), with about 3 oblong joints some 8- to 

 12-flowered in 4 or 4+2 series : peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long, often with 

 about 2 pairs of scales. Fruit subglobose, minutely cellular-papillate, 

 3 mm. in diameter : sepals closely inflexed but not meeting. Plate 180. 



Bolivian region. The type from Argentina. 



Specimens examined: ARGENTINA. Chacarita de los Padres, Cata- 

 marca (Hieronymus, 421, 1872. the type). Sierra Chica de Cordoba 

 (Lorentz, 432). Cruz del Eje, Cordoba (Stuckert, 13363). Fuerte (Lor- 

 entz, 36 4). Calera (Lorentz, 468). Catamarca (Hieronymus, Nov. 1873). 

 Guasopampa (Kurtz, 6783). Tucuman (LUlo, 20256). 



