150 FLORA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 



LORANTHACE^ 



Dendropemon emarginatus (Sw.) Steud. Nicol's Town, March. 

 On fig, gum elemi, etc. (373). Agrees with Wright 1303, except that 

 racemes are shorter and the pedicels longer. 



Dendropemon sp. "Mistletoe." Mars Bay, Andros; on Pelto- 

 pJwrum, July (713). Plants smooth, branchlets and peduncles much 

 compressed. 



Phoradendron racemosum Krug & Urban. " Snake-root," "big 

 man." Deep Creek, June; on Nectandra (704). Same as Eggers 

 1 741 and Wright 12^2 p. p. 



Phoradendron Northropiae Urban, sp. nov. 



; Ramis teretibus v. junioribus plus minus compressis, superne di-v. 

 -trichotomis : vaginis cataphyllaribus ad omnia internodia supra basin 

 obviis solitariis, raro binis : foliis obovatis v. breviter obovatis antice 

 rotundatis v. sub-truncatis, plerumque late emarginatis, basi sensim 

 V. satis abrupte in petiolum 2-6 mm. longum angustatis, 3-7 cm. longis, 

 2.5-4 cm. latis, vix dimidio usque duplo longioribus quam latioribus, 

 partissime et obsolete pinnatinervibus, crasse coriaceis ; spicis ad no- 

 dos pluribus lateralibus, 1.5-2.5 cm. longis; 4-6 articulatis: articulis 

 androgynis, 10-14 floris v. 1-2 supremis 6-2-floris; fioribus in seriebus 

 4 depositis, imparibus 2 sub apice cujusque articuli adjectis, hisve 

 masculis, caeteris femineis, baccis non visis. 



Rami inferne3-5 mm. crassi, glaberrimi, internodiis 4-10 cm. longis. 

 Folia in sicco olivacea v. brunnescentia, nervis lateralibus utrinque 

 plerumque 2, altero supra basin, altero ad medium' e nervo medio 

 abeunte, supra vix, subtus pauUo melius conspicuo. Spicae interdum 

 revera ex axillis euphyllorum solitariae, sed utrinque accessoriis autae 

 ideoque pro axilla specie ternae, sed plerumque ad nodos vetustos 

 inordinate plures, ex axillis squamarum minutarum orientes, 3-5 mm. 

 longe pedunculatae. 



Hab. in Ins. Bahamas, Andros Island and Conch Sound and Lisbon 

 Creek, in June flor. Northrop No. 551 (in Mimusops depressa Pierre). 



Plate 4. Phoradendron Northropice. Portion of plant X f ; a, inflorescence. 

 ARISTOLOCHIACEiE 



Aristolochia passiflor^eeolia Rich. Conch Sound, May. 

 In the pines (568). Same as Wright 3665. 



Aristolochia pentandra L. Nicol's Town, March (385). 

 Same as specimens of Garber and of Curtiss from South Florida. 



