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Phoradendron cerinocarpum C. Wright n. sp. 

 Phoradendron cerinocarpum C. Wright in herb. 



Scarcely forked, the rather long branches with basal cataphyls only, 

 androgynous?. Internodes moderate (2-3x30-60 mm.), smooth, rhombic 

 or ancipital. Cataphyls a single pair, nearly basal, little tubular, white- 

 margined. Leaves broadly lanceolate, very obtuse, as much as 7x16 cm., 

 cuneately subpetioled for 10 mm. Spikes mostly solitary, moderate (30 

 or 40 mm.), with about 3 rather thick joints somewhat turbinately about 

 20-flowered in 4-}-2 series: peduncle 2 or 3 mm. long, sometimes with a 

 basal pair of white-margined scales. Fruit red, nearly globose, 3-4 mm. 

 in diameter, smooth : sepals scarcely meeting. Plate 206. 



Antillean region. The type from Santo Domingo. 



Specimens examined : ANTILLES. SANTO DOMINGO. Without locality 

 (Wright, Parry & Brummel, 459, the type). Barahona (Fuertes, 275, 

 927} . Azua (Rose, Fitch & Russell, 3936) . 



Phoradendron carinatum n. sp. 



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

 gynous. Internodes rather stout and long (3-5x40-80 mm.), nearly 

 smooth, sharply 2-keeled, scarcely dilated upwards. Cataphyls a nearly 

 basal pair, sometimes followed by a second pair scarcely 10 mm. higher, 

 subannular. Leaves lanceolate, sometimes falcate or somewhat dimidiate, 

 rather acute, 4-6x15 cm. or longer, cuneately subsessile. Spikes mostly 

 solitary, moderate (40-60 mm.), with 4-6 rather stout oblong joints turbi- 

 nately some 25-flowerd in 4 or 4+2 series : peduncle 2 mm. long. Fruit 

 (immature) round-ellipsoidal, essentially smooth, 3x4 mm.: sepals in- 

 flexed and nearly meeting. Plate 207. 



Cayenne region. The type from Demerara. 



Specimens examined : BRITISH GUIANA (Jenman, 2542, Nov. 1886, 

 the type) . Noted as the largest-leaved of the Demeraran species. 



PHORADENDRON BRITTONIANUM Rusby. 



Phoradendron Brittonianum Rusby, Mem. Torrey. Bot. 01. vol. 4. p. 254. 

 1895. 



More or less forked, the long stout branches with basal cataphyls only, 

 androgynous?. Internodes moderate (3-5x50-70 mm.), nearly smooth, 

 from ancipital becoming sharply quadrangular and finally terete, some- 

 what swollen at the nodes. Cataphyls 2 pairs, respectively 5 and 25 mm. 

 above the base, subannular or broadly triangular and acute. Leaves 

 round-ovate to elliptical, very obtuse, 8x11 cm., abruptly contracted to a 

 stout petiole 15 mm. long. Spikes more or less clustered, rather long 



