146 THE GENUS PHORADENDRON 



Loranthus piperoides Iluinboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. Sp. vol. 



3. p. 443. 1818. 



L. torulosus Huniboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, I. c. 1818. 

 Viscum tereticaule and var. cubense de Candolle, Prodromus, vol. 4. p. 



280. 1830. 



V. saururoides de Candolle, I. c. 1830. 

 V. piperoides de Candolle, I. c. p. 281. 1830. 

 y. Schottii Pohl in de Candolle, I. c. p. 281. 1830. 

 V. Fockeanum Miquel, Linnaea. vol. 18. p. 60. 1844. 

 V. cornifolium Prcsl, Epimel. Bot. p. 254. 1849. 

 y. ellipticum Presl. I. c. 1849. 

 y. laurifolium Presl, I. c. p. 255. 1849. 

 Phoradendron Schottii A. Gray, U. S. P]xplor. Exped. . . . Wilkes. vol. 



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

 P. latifolium Grisebach, Fl. Br. W. I. p. 314. I860. Eichler in v. Mar- 



tius, Fl. Brazil, vol. 5. pt. 2. p. 126. pi. 41, and most writers. 

 P. laurifolium Eichler, I. c. p. 107. 1868. 

 Viscum teretifolium Hemsley, Biol. Centr.-Amcr. vol. 3. p. 85. 1882, 



name only, by error for tereticaule. 

 Phoradendron tereticaule Index Kewensis. vol. 3. p. 503. 1894, name 



only. 



P. Biolleyi Krause, Notizbl. K. Bot. Gart. Dahlem. vol. 5. p. 264. 1912. 

 Phoradendrum latifolium Urban, Bot. Jahrb. vol. 24. p. 49. 1897. 



Rather frequently pseudodichotomous or forking, the branches with 

 cataphyls on all joints, androgynous. Internodes rather long (2-4x40-100 

 mm.), slightly compressed above, quickly becoming terete. Cataphyls 

 1 or 2-5 pairs toward the base of the lowest joint, a single pair nearly 

 basal or 10-15 mm. above the base of the other joints, subannular, white- 

 margined. Leaves lanceolate to round ovate, mucronately subacute or 

 bluntly acuminate, 1.5x5 to mostly 2.5-5x6-10 or occasionally 7x12 cm., 

 subpetioled for about 5 mm. Spikes mostly clustered, usually dull red, 

 rather long (30-60 mm.), with half a dozen rather slender joints some 

 10- to 15-flowered in 4, 4+2 or exceptionally 6 series : peduncle 2-3 mm. 

 long. Fruit yellow or orange, ovoid or ellipsoid, warty to smooth, 4x5 

 mm. : sepals ascending, usually somewhat parted. Plates 217, 218, 219, 

 220, 221, 222.. 



Argentina to Mexico and the West Indies, in a multitude of forms, 

 on numerous dicotyledonous hosts. Should better knowledge of the plants 

 in nature render possible a segregation of these forms, the types already 

 named would center as follows: Antilles, y. latifolium, V. tereticaule, 

 and V. tereticaule cubense (PI. 221) ; Andes, L. piperoides and L. toru- 

 losus (PI. 220) ; Brazil, y. Schottii (PI. 217) ; Cayenne, y. saururoides 

 (PI. 221) and V. Fockeanum; Central America, P. Biolleyi; Mexico, V. 



