LORANTHACE.E. ^o 



Hab. Brazil ; on the Organ Mountains. (Also gathered by Gard- 

 ner, No. 5478.) 



There are only fruiting specimens of this species ; which is appa- 

 rently related to Pohl's Viscum crassifolium. The plant is large, 

 with long and terete tranches and branchlets, glabrous. Leaves 3 or 4 

 inches long, rather narrowly oval or ovate oblong, obtuse, narrowed at 

 the base into a petiole of about 3 lines in length, thick, evidently 3-5- 

 nerved, otherwise velnless. Fertile spikes in pairs, or sometimes in 

 threes, in the axils of the leaves, slender, in fruit an inch or an inch 

 and a half long; the many-flowered joints 3 lines long; the short 

 sheaths two-cleft, very obtuse. Berries spherical, about a line and a 

 half in diameter, but immature, their bases separately immersed in 

 hollows of the rhachis. 



3. Phoradendron- chrtsocladon, Sp. Nov. 



P. ramulis compressis ; ramis teretibus auratis ; foliis ovatis scepius 

 acuminatis brevissime petiolatis crassis subtus obsolete tripli-quintupli- 

 nerviis costa prominula supra nitidulis reticulato-venosis ; spicis in 

 axillis solitariis ternisve, fructiferis folio paullo brevioribus pauci-arti- 

 culatis, arliculis truncato-bilobis. 



Hab. Brazil ; near Rio Janeiro. 



Apparently a widely diffused species ; as it appears to be the same 

 as one gathered at Bahia by Salzmann, at Piauhy by Gardner (No. 

 2884), and in British Guiana by Schomburgk (No. 554, of 1st coll.). 

 It is evidently allied to Viscum flavens, Swartz ; but the venation is 

 different, and the spikes are proportionately longer. We have only 

 the female plant. Branches terete, tinged with golden yellow ; the 

 young branchlets compressed or ancipital. Leaves 2 or 3 inches long, 

 ovate or oval-oblong, mostly acuminate, often conspicuously so, abruptly 

 contracted at the base into a very short petiole, thick and coriaceous, 

 often yellowish, obscurely triplinerved or quintuplinerved underneath, 

 the narrow costa prominent, above lucid and conspicuously reticulate- 



