RHIPSALIS. 231 
Figure 224 is from a photograph taken by H. Buch which was given to Dr. Rose when 
he was in La Plata, Argentina, in 1915. 
19. Rhipsalis aculeata Weber, Rev. Hort. 64: 428. 1892. 
Stems terete, 3 to 4 mm. in diameter, somewhat angled and roughened in dried specimens; 
areoles close together, bearing wool and 8 to 10 appressed white bristles or spines; fruit not immersed, 
globose, 7 to 8 mm. in diameter, dark purple to nearly black, either naked or with 3 or 4 hairy areoles. 
Type locality: Catamarca, Argentina. 
Distribution: Northern Argentina, in the provinces of Catamarca and Tucuman. 
A round-stemmed species collected by Otto Kuntze on the Sierra de Santa Cruz, 
Bolivia, and labeled Hariota sarmentacea may belong here. 
This species is described by Schumann as 8 to 10-ribbed, but no ribs are shown in 
growing plants; in drying the branches are somewhat angled but one could hardly describe 
them as ribbed. Dr. Shafer made a single collection of this plant at Tucuman in 1917 (No. 
92); part of this material is living in the New York Botanical Garden. Dr. Rose also 
obtained a specimen through one of his Argentina correspondents from Catamarca. ‘ 
Plate xxIv, figure 8, is from Dr. Shafer’s plant mentioned above. 
20. Rhipsalis grandiflora Haworth, Suppl. Pl. Succ. 83. 1819. 
Cactus funalis Sprengel, Syst. 2: 479. 1825. 
Cactus cylindricus Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 207. 1825. Not Lamarck, 1783. Not Ortega, 1800. 
Rhipsalts funalis Salm-Dyck in De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 476. 1828. 
Hariota funalis Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 74. 1839. 
Rhipsalts cylindrica Steudel, Nom. ed. 2. 2: 448. 1841. 
Hariota cylindrica Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 262. 1891. 
Hartiota grandiflora Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 262. 1891. ; 
Rhipsalis robusta Lindberg, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 6: 53. 1896. Not Lemaire, 1860. 
Rhipsalis hadrosoma Lindberg, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 6: 96. 1896. 
Branches divaricate, often reddish, especially about the areoles, stout, 8 to 10 mm. in diameter; 
flowers numerous, scattered all along branches, 12 mm. long, 2 cm. broad, light rose or cream- 
colored ; sepals reddish; petals few, oblong, obtuse, widely spreading; anthers and style white; stigma- 
lobes 4, white; fruit naked, purplish, 6 to 7 mm. in diameter. 
Type locality: Not cited. 
Distribution: State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 
We have not seen the type specimen of this species, but through the kindness of Mr. 
N. E. Brown of Kew we have seen a pHotograph of Haworth’s specimens, which are the 
same as the species here described. Haworth’s plant was received from Brazil in 1816, sent 
by Messrs. Bowie and Cunningham. , 
Rhipsalis calamiformis (Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 135. 1837) was published as a synonym 
of R. funalis. 
Walpers gives Rhipsalis funalis gracilior Pfeiffer (Repert. Bot. 2: 279. 1843) as a 
synonym. 
™ I ilusirations: Gartenwelt 13: 117; Watson, Cact. Cult. 228. f. 89; ed. 3. f. 65; Amer. 
Gard. 11: 465; Dict. Gard. Nicholson 3: 289. f. 365; Gartenflora 42: 234. f. 48; Link and 
Otto, Icon. Pl. Rar. pl. 38, as Rhipsalis funalis; Vellozo, FI. Flum. 5: pl. 31, as Cactus 
cylindricus; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 6: 55, as R. robusta; Blithende Kakteen 3: pl. 141; 
Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 7: 151. f. 1 to 8; Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 1: pl. 7, as 
R. hadrosoma: Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 54: pl. 2740; Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 633. f. 98, A; 
Martius, Fl. Bras. 42: pl. 54; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 7: 151. f. 9 to 11; Arch. Jard. Bot. 
Rio de Janeiro 1: pl. 6. , 
Plate xxxI, figure 3, shows a plant collected by Dr. Rose near Rio de Janeiro in ror 5 
(No. 20746) which flowered in the New York Botanical Garden in 1918; figure 1 is of a plant 
which also flowered in the New York Botanical Garden, April 3, 1912; plate XXI, figures 
I and 6, shows the flowers and fruit of specimens sent by Alwin Berger in 1908. 
