AEQUATORIALES UNDULATAE 129 



rather long (40-60 mm.), with about 3 stout oblong joints 22- to 30-flow- 

 ered in 4+2 series: peduncle almost suppressed. Fruit globose, tuber- 

 culate, 5 mm. in diameter : sepals widely spreading with upcurved tips. 

 Plate 211. 



Andean region. The type from Ecuador. 



Specimens examined: ECUADOR. Hacienda El Recreo, Manabi (Eg- 

 gers, 15229, Aug. 29, 1893, the type). 



40. NORTHKOPIAE. 



Leaves moderate or rather large, somewhat thick and dull, scarcely 

 revolute, very obscurely subpinnately nerved. Shoots somewhat rhom- 

 bic. Cataphyls a single pair, on all joints? Flowers in 4+2 series. 

 Fruit round, smooth, with parted sepals. Bahamas. 



Leaves obovate or spatulate, often emarginate. P. Northropiae. 



PHORADENDRON NORTHROPIAE Urban. 



Phoradendron Northropiae Urban, Mem. Torrey Bot. Cl. vol. 12. p. 33. 

 pi. 4. 1902. 



Commonly forked or fasciculate, the moderate branches apparently 

 with cataphyls on all joints, androgynous. Internodes moderate (2-5x 

 20-60 mm.), minutely papillate, for a time somewhat rhombic or com- 

 pressed, enlarged at the nodes. Cataphyls a single pair 5 mm. or less 

 above the base, or rarely 2 pairs, short-tubular. Leaves obovate to sub- 

 spatulate, very obtuse to obcordately notched, 2.5-3x3-5, or 4-5x6-10 cm., 

 cuneately subpetioled for 5 mm., obscurely penninerved. Spikes often 

 densely clustered, rather short (20-25 mm.), with about 4 subfusiform 

 moderately thick joints covered by some 8-18 flowers in 4+2 series: 

 peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long, with a second pair of scales. Fruit red, 

 subglobose, smooth : sepals erect, not meeting. Plate 189. 



Bahamian region ( 1 exclusively) on Mimusops. The type from An- 

 dros. 



Specimens examined: BAHAMAS. ANDROS ISL. (Northrop, 551, 1890, 

 the type; Brace, 5325; Small & Carter, 8479). 



41. UNDULATAE. 



Leaves rather large, lanceolate, thick, dull, obscurely pinnately 

 nerved. Shoots sharply ancipital above. Cataphyls mostly 3-4 pairs, on 

 the basal joint only. Flowers in 4+2 series. Fruit ellipsoid, smooth, 

 with nearly closed sepals. Brazil to the West Indies. 



