142 THE GENUS PHOEADENDJJUJS 



E. PARADOXAE. 



Cataphyls on alternate joints or in pne species on all joints, the 

 branches normally percurrent. Always glabrous and with foliage leaves. 

 Venezuela. 



Cataphyls 2 or 3 deeply tubular pairs. FENDLERIANAE. 



49. FENDLERIANAE. 



Leaves moderate, rather thick and dull, somewhat obscurely basi- 

 nerved. Shoots nearly terete when with cataphyls or strongly ancipital 

 when without them. Cataphyls mostly 2 or 3 pairs, on all joints or in 

 one species on every alternate joint. Spikes moderate, usually with rath- 

 er large scales. Flowers in 6 series. Fruit round, smooth, with nearly 

 closed sepals. Venezuela and Guiana. 



Cataphyls on all joints. P. Fendlerianum. 



Cataphyls on alternate joints only. P. paradoxum. 



PHORADENDRON FENDLERIANUM Eichler. 



Phoradendron Fendlerianum Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. 

 pt. 2. p. 129. 1868. 



Scarcely forked, the rather long branches with cataphyls on all joints, 

 dioecious?. Internodes moderate (2-3x50-80 mm.), smooth, somewhat 

 compressed above. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair followed by a second 

 or even a third pair at intervals of 10-20 mm. or more, tubular. Leaves 

 round-ovate or elliptical, sometimes oblique, very obtuse or emarginate, 

 5-7x8-9 cm., rather abruptly petioled for some 10 mm. Spikes clustered, 

 rather long (50-60 mm.), with about 5 clavate joints scarcely 24-flowered 

 in 6 series when pistillate: peduncle some 10 mm. long, usually with 1 

 or 2 pairs of basal scales : scale-pairs forming rather deep truncate cups. 

 Fruit round, smooth, 4 mm. in diameter: sepals inflexed but slightly 

 parted. Plate 211. 



Venezuelan region. The type from Venezuela. 



Specimens examined: VENEZUELA. Tovar (Fendler, 1102, the 

 type). 



PHORADENDRON PARADOXUM (Urban). 



Phoradendrum paradoxum Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 23. Beibl. 57. p. 8. 

 1897. 



Scarcely forked, the moderate branches with cataphyls on alternate 

 joints, dioecious?. Internodes rather long (2-7x50-90 mm.) and subterete 

 when with cataphyls, shorter (scarcely 50 mm.) and sharply ancipitally 

 flattened when lacking them, smooth. Cataphyls a pair some 5 mm. above 



