124 THE GENUS PHOEADENDEON 



35. ENSIFOLIAE. 



Leaves long or very narrow, rather heavy, basinerved. Shoots rather 

 quickly terete. Cataphyls 1-4 pairs, on the basal joint only. Flowers 

 mostly in 6 series. Fruit subglobose, smooth or wrinkled, with inflexed 

 sepals. Brazil. 



Leaves very narrow, linear, widened upwards. P. linearifolium. 



Leaves oblanceolate. 



Narrow (5-20 mm.), tapered upwards. P. ensifolium. 



Broad (20-40 mm.), broadest above the middle. 



P. lanceolato-ellipticum. 



PHORADENDRON LiNEApFOLiuM Eichler. 



Phoradendron linearifolium Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brazil, vol. 5 pt. 2. 

 p. 115. pi. 36. 1868. 



Frequently pseudodichotomous, the long branches with basal cata- 

 phyls only, or seemingly forked and then with cataphyls on all joints, 

 dioecious. Internodes long and slender (1-2x50-100 mm.), smooth, quickly 

 terete, swollen above. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal or as much 

 as 10 or 15 mm. above the base, or 2-4 often very irregularly spaced pairs. 

 Leaves linear-spatulate, very obtuse to emarginate or truncate, .2-.3 or 

 .6x10 to 16 cm., gradually attenuate to the base. Spikes often clustered, 

 moderate (10-15, lengthening to 30 mm.), with 2 or 3 slender joints some 

 6-flowered in 4 or 4+2 series when pistillate and as much as 50-flowered 

 in 6 series when staminate : peduncle scarcely 1 mm. long, followed by a 

 longer nearly or quite sterile joint. Fruit subglobose, 2-3 mm. in diam- 

 eter, somewhat rugosely low-granular: sepals not meeting. Plate 181. 



Brazilian region. The type from Rio de Janeiro. 



Specimens examined: BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro (Riedel, the type; 

 Glaziou, 9468, 12032-3, 13926, 19419; Vie, 4938) . Organ Mts. (Burchell, 

 2129). 



PHORADENDRON ENSIFOLIUM Eichler. 



Phoradendron ensifolium Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brazil, vol. 5. pt. 2. 



p. 114. pi. 35. 1868. 

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



Somewhat pseudodichotomous, the long branches with basal cataphyls 

 only, dioecious. Internodes long and slender (2-3x50-100 mm. or more), 

 smooth, quickly terete. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair with usually a 

 second pair some 10 mm. higher. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse, 1.5-2.5x20-30 

 em., very long-attenuate at base, drying golden. Spikes mostly clustered, 

 moderate (30-40 mm.), with about half a dozen joints rounded and about 

 6-flowered in 4-J-2 series when pistillate or elongated and some 30-flow- 



