AEQUATORIALES TUEBINISPICAE 125 



ered in 6 series when staminate: peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long, with a 

 pair of basal scales. Fruit subglobose, 4 mm. in diameter, nearly smooth, 

 dull : sepals closely inflexed. Plate 182. 



Brazilian region. The type from Barbacena. 



Specimens examined: BRAZIL. Barbacena (Pohl, 106, the type of 

 V. ensifolium; Warming, 14, 381). Tristega (Czermak & Reineck, 312). 

 Porto Alegre (Czermak & Reineck, 637). 



PHORADENDRON LANCEOLATO-ELLIPTICUM Eichler. 



Phoradendron lanceolato-ellipticum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brazil. 



vol. 5. pt. 2. p. 114. pi. 35. 1868. 

 Vis cum lanceolato-ellipticum Pohl in de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 



282. 1830. 

 V. interruptum de Candolle, Prodromus, vol. 4. p. 282. 1830. 



Scarcely forked, the long branches with basal cataphyls only, dioe- 

 cious?. Internodes rather long (2-3x50-100 mm. or more, smooth, for a 

 time somewhat flattened. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair followed by 1-3 

 others at intervals of less than 5 to 25-40 mm. Leaves falcately oblance- 

 olate-oblong, very obtuse, 2-4x10-16 cm., rather short-cuneate at base. 

 Spikes often clustered, moderate (30-40 or 50 mm.), with about 4 slender 

 joints some 20-flowered in 6 series when pistillate : peduncle 5 mm. long, 

 usually with 1 or 2 lower pairs of scarcely ciliate scales. Fruit (imma- 

 ture) somewhat ellipsoidal, 2x3 mm., smooth: sepals closely inflexed. 

 Plate 183. 



Brazilian region. The type from Goyaz. 



Specimens examined: BRAZIL. Padre Luis Faria, Goyaz (Pohl, 273, 

 the type of V. lanceolato-ellipticum and of V. interruptum) . 



36. TURBINISPICAE. 



Leaves moderate, lanceolate, basinerved. Shoots for a time ancipital. 

 Cataphyls several pairs, on the basal joint only. Joints of the spikes tur- 

 binately many-flowered in 4+2 series. Fruit round, minutely papillate, 

 with closed sepals. Brazil. 



Leaves lanceolate. P- macrarfhrum. 



PHORADENDRON MACRARTHRUM Eichler. 



Phoradendron macrartJirum Eiehler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. 



pt. 2. p. 124. pi. 43. 1868. 

 P. macrarthron Eichler, 1. c. p. 107, in key, 133. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the rather long branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes rather long (2-4x40-60 mm.), 



