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2.5-4 em. long, 1-2 cm. wide, rouBiied 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; calyx trun- 

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



On Swictciiia Mahogoni, Long Island near Clarence Town on GaLoway Road 

 Britton & Millspaugh 632i.) Shoet-stalked Mistletoe. 



3. Dendropemon bahamensis Britton, sp. nov. 



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

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

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

 about 2 mm. long; raehis 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 eylindric with a conic 

 apex, red-bro.wn, 9 mm. long, 5 mm. thick. 



On LysUoma SaMcu, Nassau, New Providence (Britton and Brace 2fi9. type : 

 Brace Si27) • on the same host, Haynes Road, Great Exuma (Britton & Millspaugh 

 tSIS) \ on Conocarpva erecta, Georgetown, Great Exuma (Britton & Millspaufih 29061. 

 Presumably recorded by DoUey as Loranthus parm/lorus Sw. Bahama Mistletoe. 



4. Dendropemon emarglnatus (Sw.) Steud. Xomenel. ed. 2, 491. 1841. 



Loranthus emarginatus Sw. Prodr. 58. 1788. 



Dendropemon emdfrginatus 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 em. 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 eylindric, 6-8 mm. long, black, 

 or red with a blaek base. 



On Ficus and Elaphrium SiHiorMfta, Andros : — Cuba ; Hispaniola. Scaly 

 Mistletoe. 



2. PHOEADENDKON Xutt. Journ. Aead. 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 smaU 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 obtuse or capitate. Fruit a sessile 

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

 Over 200 species, all American. Type species: Plioradendron californicum 

 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. Xorthropiae. 



