228 THE CACTACEAE. 
Stems erect or spreading, woody at base, 10 to 12 mm. in diameter, much branched, especially 
above, with 5 to 12 short ultimate branches at top of main ones; old branches terete, green or blotched 
with red; flowers usually several at top of short terminal branches and scattered all along the primary 
ones, 10 to 12 mm. broad, pale yellow; petals widely spreading; filaments and style white, erect. 
Type locality: Brazil. 
Distribution: States of Minas Geraes, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
Rhipsalis floribunda Schott was given by Schumann (Martius, Fl. Bras. 4°: 274. 1890) 
as a synonym of this species. 
Illustrations: Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 5: pl. 30, as Cactus teres; Mollers Deutsche Gart. 
Zeit. 25: 477. f. 11, No. 22; Garten-Zeitung 4: 182. f. 42, No. 7, as Rhipsalts conferta. 
Plate xxv1, figure 5, shows a plant received from Kew in 1902 which flowered in the 
New York Botanical Garden in 1917. 
Fic. 223.—Rhipsalis shaferi. 
14. Rhipsalis lindbergiana Schumann in Martius, Fl. Bras. 42: 271. 1890. 
Rhipsalis erythrocarpa Schumann in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost. Afrikas 282. 1895. 
Hartota lindbergiana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 32: 107. 1898. 
Rhipsalis densiareolata Léfgren, Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: 41. 1918. 
| Very much branched, hanging from tree-trunks in great festoons, 1 to 2 meters long; joints 
elongated, 3 to 5 mm. in diameter; areoles filled with hairs and 2 bristles; flowers numerous, lateral, 
pinkish; ovary naked or nearly so; fruit light red, globose, 2 to 3 mm. in diameter, 16 to 20-seeded. 
Type locality: Near the city of Rio de Janeiro. 
Distribution: Mountainous regions in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Mount 
Kilman-Djaro, Africa. \ . 
Rhi psalis erythrocarpa Schumann was described from herbarium specimens, collected 
on Mount Kilman-Djaro, in tropical Africa. We refer it to R. lindbergina Schumann in 
deference to the opinion of Mr. Roland-Gosselin* but we have not had specimens for study. 
[llustrations: Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: pl. 12, as \Rhipsalis densiareolata. 
Rev. Hort. 85: f. 152, in part, as R. erythrolepis: Marti a Arch, Jard: 
Bot. Rio de Janeiro 1: pl. 4. y pis; Martius, Fl. Bras.\4?: pl. 53; Arch. J 
eis 
* Bull. Soc. Bot. France 59: 100. 
