AEQUATORIALES CYMOSAE 161 



length 100 mm.), with some 7 stout oblong joints about 50-flowered in 

 6 series : peduncle 5 mm. long, usually with a basal pair of scales. Fruit 

 (immature) subglobose: sepals inflexed. Plate 244. 



Brazilian region. The type from Campinas. 



Specimens examined: BRAZIL. Campinas (de Campos Novaes, 417 

 in part, the type). 



Phoradendron Holtonis n. sp. 



Cymosely dichotomous, the rather elongated branches therefore with 

 cataphyls on all joints, androgynous?. Internodes rather long (2-4x 

 CO-100 mm.), at first rhombic. Cataphyls a nearly basal pair followed 

 by a second pair 20-25 mm. higher, tubular, blunt and somewhat white- 

 margined. Leaves somewhat falcately lanceolate, obtuse, 2.5-3x8 cm., 

 involutely subsessile. Spikes mostly solitary, very long (60-100 mm.), 

 with some 4 fusiformly thickened joints turbinately 40- to 50-flowered 

 in 6 series: peduncle 3 mm. long. Fruit (immature) subglobose, nearly 

 smooth, 4 mm. in diameter : sepals inflexed. Plate 244. 



Andean region. The type from Colombia. 



Specimens examined : COLOMBIA. Fusagasuga (/. F. Holton, 655, 

 the type, and probably also 654). 



Phoradendron Lindeni n. sp. 



Cymosely dichotomous, the rather long slender branches therefore 

 with cataphyls on all joints, androgynous?. Internodes long (2-3x50-100 

 mm.), quickly terete. Cataphyls a single nearly basal pair, scarcely 

 tubular, acute, white-margined. Leaves orbicular to obovate, obtuse or 

 einarginate, about 5x6 cm., abruptly narrowed to a petiole 3 mm. long. 

 Spikes mostly solitary, rather long (60 mm. or more), with 4 or 5 stout 

 cylindrical joints some 50-flowered in about 8 series : peduncle 3-4 mm. 

 long. Fruit?. Plate 245. 



Andean region ( ? exclusively) on Capparis. The type from Colom- 

 bia. 



Specimens examined: COLOMBIA. Espinal. Valley of the Magda- 

 lena (Linden, 846, Dec. 1842, the type). 



