AEQUATOEIALES TUNAEFOEMES 141 



PHORADENDRON FRAGILE (Urban). 

 Phoradendrum fragile Urban, Bot. Jahrb. v. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 13. 1897. 



Scarcely forked, the rather short sometimes red branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, dioecious?. Internodes short (2-3x10-25 mm.), terete, 

 fleshy, more or less papillate. Cataphyls a single pair toward the base, 

 or two such pairs, blunt and widely spreading. Leaves minute, scale- 

 like. Spikes more or less clustered, moderate (20, becoming 30 mm. long), 

 with about 4 subglobose joints from very few-flowered to as much as 50- 

 flowered in 4+2 series : peduncle nearly suppressed : scales ciliate. Fruit 

 ellipsoidal, 4x5 mm., somewhat wrinkled but not verrucose: sepals in- 

 flexed but scarcely meeting. Plate 210. 



Brazilian region ( ? exclusively) on Miconia and Melastomaceae. 

 The type from Rio de Janeiro. 



Specimens examined: BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro, (Glaziou, 10898, 

 the type). Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro (fRose & Russell, 20369). S. 

 Paulo (Glaziou, 11608). Goyaz (Glaziou, 22023). 



48. TUNAEFORMES. 



Leaves reduced to small scales. Shoots very thin and flat. Cataphyls 

 a single pair, on the basal joint only. Flowers in 4+2 series. Fruit 

 ovoid, granular, with parted sepals. Brazil. 



Internodes elliptical-oblong. P. tunaeforme. 



PHORADENDRON TUNAEFORME Eichler. 



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



p. 108. pi. 32. 1868. 

 Viscum tunaeforme de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 284. 1830. 



More or less pseudodichotomous, the elongated branches with basal 

 cataphyls only, androgynous. Internodes short (1-5x20-30 mm.), greatly 

 flattened, slightly papillate, striately ribbed. Cataphyls a single nearly 

 basal pair, tubular-bifid. Leaves minute, scale-like. Spikes more or less 

 clustered, very short (5 mm.), usually of a single joint about 6-flowered 

 in 4+2 series : peduncle nearly suppressed : scales scarcely ciliate. Fruit 

 ovoid, 3x4 mm., granular: sepals parted. Plate 210. 



Brazilian region. The type from Musquitos. 



Specimens examined: BRAZIL. Serra de S. Feliz, Musquitos (PoTd, 

 1928, 1839, the type of V. tunaeforme, and of V. articulatum Pohl in 

 herb.). Piauhy (Gardner, 1958). Lagoa Santa (Warming, 17, 384). 

 Goyaz (Glaziou, 22024). Pernambuco (Schenck, 4238). Maracas, Bahia 

 (Ule, 6948). Bahia (v. Martius). Araraquara, S. Paulo (Lofgren, 1074). 

 Without locality (Vauthier). 



