AEQUATORTALES ANOMALAE 127 



38. ANOMALAE. 



Tomentose. Leaves small or rather broad, thick though evidently 

 nerved from the base. Shoots scarcely edged. Cataphyls a single pair, 

 on the basal joint only. Flowers in 4+2 series. Fruit round, retrorsely 

 hairy. Southern Andes. 



Leaves moderately large (7 cm.) : sepals parted. P. tucumanense. 



Leaves small (under 1 cm. long) : fruiting sepals meeting. P. Kuntzei. 



PHORADENDRON TUCUMANENSE (Urban). 



Phoradendrum tucumanense Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 16. 

 1897. 



Not forked, the rather long branches with basal cataphyls only, dioe- 

 cious. Internodes moderate (2-4x40-50 mm.), densely stellate- tomentose 

 or short- villous like the foliage, compressed and dilated under the nodes 

 becoming terete. Cataphyls a single pair, about 5 mm. above the base, 

 scarcely tubular. Leaves lanceolate or the lowest elliptical, typically 

 acute, 1.5-3x7-9 cm., cuneately rather slender-petioled for 15-20 mm. 

 Spikes often clustered, moderate (25-35, becoming 50 mm. in fruit), 

 tomentose, with about 3 rather stout joints some 18-flowered in 4+2 ser- 

 ies when pistillate and as much as 50-flowered in 6 series when staminate : 

 peduncle 2 mm. long, often followed by a somewhat longer sterile joint : 

 scales deeply parted. Fruit subglobose, dark red, 3 mm. in diameter, 

 retrorsely hairy : sepals nearly glabrous, suberectly parted. Plates 187, 

 188. 



Bolivian region ( ? exclusively) on Fagara. The type from Argen- 

 tina. 



Specimens examined: ARGENTINA. Siambon, Sierra de Tucuman 

 (Lorentz & Hieronymus, 223, 235, 335, 782, 1874, the types). Cuesta 

 de Periquillo (Lillo, 5414). BOLIVIA. La Merced, Bermejo (Fiebrig, 

 2174). COUNTRY?. San Luis (Pearce, 1864). 



PHORADENDRON KUNTZEI (Urban). 

 Phoradendrum Kuntzei Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 11. 1897. 



Not forked, the moderate branches with basal cataphyls only, dioe- 

 cious. Internodes moderate (2x30 mm. or more), densely yellow-tomen- 

 tose like the foliage, somewhat compressed under the nodes becoming te- 

 rete. Cataphyls a single nearly basal pair. Leaves (on the young growth) 

 short-oblong, scarcely 2x5 mm., sessile, caducous. Spikes mostly clus- 

 tered, rather long (40 mm.), tomentose, with about 3 oblong or clavate 

 joints some 30-flowered when pistillate and 60-flowered when staminate 



