LOKANTHACEAE. 1 09 



2.5-4 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, rounded or minutely apiculate at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, the midvein prominent on the under side, the lateral vena- 

 tion obscure, the petioles about 0.5 mm. long; inflorescence peduncled, few- 

 flowered, short-racemose; peduncles about one-half as long as the leaves; 

 pedicels 3 or 4 mm. long; bractlets connate to about the middle j calyx trun- 

 cate; fruit subglobose, bluish purple, 8-9 mm. in diameter. 



On Swietenia Mahagoni, Long Island near Clarence Town on Galloway Road 

 Brltton & MillspaugJi 632%.) SHORT-STALKED MISTLETOE;. 



3. Dendropemon bahamensis Britton, sp. nov. 



Similar to D. emarginatus, but the twigs strongly angled, not scaly. 

 Leaves ovate-elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 5 cm. long or less, 1.5-3 cm. wide, 

 acute, acutish or rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base; petioles stout, 

 about 2 mm. long; rachis of the inflorescence densely white-scaly, 3 cm. long 

 or less; calyx densely white-scaly, broadly triangular, 3 mm. long in fruit, its 

 teeth broadly triangular, horny, glabrous; ripe fruit cylindric with a conic 

 apex, red-brown, 9 mm. long, 5 mm. thick. 



On Lyslloma SaMcu, Nassau, New Providence (Britton and Brace 269, type: 

 Brace 3^27) ; on the same host, Haynes Road, Great Exuma (Britton & Millspaugh 

 2975) ', on Conocarpus erect, Georgetown, Great Exuma (Britton & Millspaugh 2906). 

 Presumably recorded by Dolley as Loranthus parviflorus Sw. BAHAMA MISTLETOE. 



4. Dendropemon emarginatus (Sw.) Steud. Xomencl. ed. 2, 491. 1841. 



Loranthus emarginatus Sw. Prodr. 58. 1788. 



Dendropemon emdrginatus lepidotus Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 24: 25. 

 1897. 



Stems rather stout, terete, 3-4 dm. long, the twigs terete or very nearly 

 so, usually scaly. Leaves obovate or elliptic- obovate, 2-7 cm. long, rounded 

 or emarginate at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, the .petioles 2-6 

 mm. long; inflorescence scaly, several-flowered, 2-5 cm. long,, the peduncles 

 terete or slightly angular, the pedicels 1 mm. long or less; bracts connate; 

 calyx more or less scaly, its teeth short; berry cylindric, 6-8 mm. long, black, 

 or red with a black base. 



On Ficus and Elaphrium Simaruba, Andros : Cuba ; Hispaniola. SCALY 

 MISTLETOE. 



2. PHORADENDRON Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. 1: 185. 1848. 



Shrubs, parasitic on trees, mostly brittle at the nodes, with opposite 

 coriaceous flat leaves, sometimes reduced to scales (cataphyls), terete or angled 

 twigs, and monoecious or dioecious axillary spicate bracted small flowers, 

 solitary or several in the axil of each bract. Staminate flowers with a 

 3-lobed (rarely 2-4-lobed) calyx, bearing a sessile transversely 2-celled anther 

 at the base of each lobe. Pistillate flowers with a similar calyx adnate to the 

 ovoid inferior ovary; style short; stigma obti'se or capitate. Fruit a sessile 

 fleshy berry. Endosperm copious. [Greek, tree-thief, from its parasitic habit.] 

 Over 200 species, all American. Type species: Phoradendron calif ornicum 

 Nutt. 



Branches distinctly tetragonal ; leaves scarcely petioled or short- 

 petioled 



Leaves oblanceolate to spatulate or oblong-spatulate ; peti- 

 oles 3-8 mm. long. 1. P. rubrum. 



Leaves obovate to obovate-elliptic, 5 cm. long or less, petioles 



1-2 mm. long. 2. P. trinervium. 



Branches terete or nearly so ; leaves distinctly petioled. 



Leaves ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, blunt at the apex ; berry 



white. 3. P. racemosum. 



Leaves obovate, rounded or retuse at the apex ; berry red. 4. P. Northropiae. 



