144 THE GENUS PHOEADENDRON 



50. CRASSIFOLIAE. 



Leaves large, ovate, thick, but rather heavily basinerved. Shoots te- 

 rete. Cataphyls on all joints, several pairs, of which the upper are 

 more or less deciduous and uniformly fertile. Flowers in 4+2 or 6 

 series. Fruit round, nearly smooth, with closed sepals. Brazil to Cen- 

 tral America and the West Indies. 



Leaves very thick and dull : fruit yellowish. P. crassifolium. 



Leaves thinner and glossier : fruit red. P. martinicense. 



PHORADENDRON CRASSIFOLIUM Eichler. 



PJioradendron crassifolium Eichler in v. Martius, Fl. Brasil. vol. 5. pt. 2. 



p. 125. pi. 40. 1868. 



Viscum crassifolium Pohl in de Candolle, Prodromus. vol. 4. p. 280. 1830. 

 Phoradendron pepericarpum A. Gray, U. S. Explor. Exped. . . . Wilkes. 



vol. 15. pt. 1, Botany, Phanerogamia. p. 742. 1854. 

 Phoradendrum crassifolium Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 51. 1897, 



as to the mainland. 



Occasionally pseudodichotomous, the branches with cataphyls on all 

 joints, androgynous. Internodes rather long (2-4x60-80 mm.), terete. 

 Cataphyls a sterile basal pair sometimes rather closely followed by 2 or 

 3 other sterile pairs, and about 3 floriferous pairs spaced along the other- 

 wise leafless joint, subannular. Leaves more or less lanceolately or ellip- 

 tically ovate, obtuse or blunt-pointed, 3x8 to 8-10x16 cm., rounded at 

 base or attenuate for 5-20 mm. Spikes sometimes terminal as well as 

 axillary and occasionally forming a compound terminal inflorescence 

 from the suppression of foliage near the summit, often clustered, mod- 

 erate (30 mm.), with about 5 round-fusiform joints scarcely 10-flowered 

 in 4+2 or 6 series : peduncle 5 mm. long, often with as many as 5 pairs 

 of crowded scales. Fruit (said to be yellowish) subglobose, slightly low- 

 granular, 4 mm. in diameter : sepals closely inflexed. Plates 213, 214. 



Brazil to Central America, on Bertiera, Coffea, Macrocnemum, Mico- 

 nia, Rondeletia, Schinus, etc. The type from Brazil. 



Specimens examined: BRAZIL. Serra d'Ourada (Pohl, 457, 1839, 

 the type of V. crassifolium; Luschnath; Claussen, 43; Sello, 5266). 

 Organ Mts. (Wilkes Exped., the type of P. pepericarpum). Rio de 

 Janeiro (Riedel; Glaziou, 1432-3, 1460, 4004 in part, 4005, 7666, 14884; 

 v. Martius; Wied-Neuwied; Peckolt, 624; Hieronymus & Niederlein, 

 1878; Ule, 4598, with nearly sessile leaves 3x5 cm.). S. Paulo (Burch- 

 ell, 3124, 3165; Lofgren, 799). Rio Negro (Spruce, 1563; v. Martius). 

 Lagoa Santa (Warming, 373). Sta. Catarina (Pabst, 554 in part; Ule, 

 179). Mattogrosso (Moore, 534). Campinas (de Campos Novaes, 417 

 in part). Piauhy (Gardner, 2620). Pernambuco (Gardner, 2881 



