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UNPUBLISHED OR INCOMPLETELY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 
RHIPSALIS CHRYSANTHA Léfgren, Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 1:99. 191 5. 
We know this species only from description. Lofgren places it in his subgenus 
Lepismium near Rhipsalis dissimilis, but his descriptions suggest R. rosea (our Rhipsali- 
dopsis rosea). Both names are based on Dr. P. Dusen’s collections from Parama, Brazil. 
It seems near R. puniceo-discus. 
RHIPSALIS FRONDOSA Wercklé, Subregion Fitogeografica Costa Ricense 42. 1909. 
The above name is given without description. 
Weingart (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 20: 185. 1910) refers to this plant as a new species 
represented in a sending from Costa Rica by Wercklé. Nothing further is known about it. 
RHIPSALIS RIEDELIANA Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1860: 49. 1860. 
Hariota riedeliana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 263. 1891. 
This plant was sent from Brazil by Riedel, but we do not know it. Schumann did not 
know it. 
Rhipsalis bucheni Béhagnon (Rev. Hort. 85: 436. f. 152. 1913) we know only from the 
illustration of a poor potted plant and an incomplete description. 
Rhipsalis carnosa and R. lagenaria are names mentioned by Véchting (Jahrb. Wiss. 
Bot. Leipzig 9: 368, 372. 1873). 
Rhipsalis erythrolepis Bénagnon (Rev. Hort. 85: f. 152, part) is known only from a 
potted plant of some species with broad, flat joints. 
Rhipsalis filiformis seems to be only a garden name (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 6: 47. 
1896). It may be the same as R. cribrata filiformis Engelhardt (MOllers Deutsche Gart. 
Zeit. 18: 585. 1903). 
Rhipsalis itatiaiae Weber appears in Robert Lamb’s Collection of Cacti, page 72, 
1908, without description. In 1914 Mr. Lamb sent Dr. Rose a specimen under this name, 
but it has not bloomed. A part of this plant from Mount Itatiaya, Brazil, is now grow- 
ing in the New York Botanical Garden (Rose, No. 888). 
Rhipsalis macahensis Glaziou (Bull. Soc. Bot. France Mem. 11. 326. 1909) is only a 
name. According to Glaziou he collected it on rocks and trees at Alto Macahé, Rio de 
Janeiro (No. 18262). 
Rhipsalis microcarpa Steudel, is a name found only in Schumann’s Index (Gesamtb. 
Kakteen 832. 1898). a 
Rhipsalis miquelii Lemaire (Cactées 80. 1868) is not described but it is grouped with 
R. pachyptera, R. rhombea, and other flat-jointed species. Lemaire also lists R. turpinii on 
the same page, associating it with R. micrantha and R. trigona. 
Rhipsalis oligosperma Lindberg (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 7: 21. 1897) is a name only. 
Rhipsalis spathulata Otto (Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 3. 1839) Schumann thought might be 
a mistake for Pereskia spathulata. Kuntze takes it up, however, as Hariota spathulata 
(Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 263. 1891). 
The name Rhipsalis taglionis occurs in the Index Kewensis Supplement 1, by error for 
R. saglionsis. 
Rhipsalis wettsteinii Schumann (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 17: 48. 1907) is a name only. 
The illustration (fig. 233a) given on next page is a reproduction of Plumier’s plate 
92 of Burmann Plantarum Americanum pubished in 1755 and now referred to Neoabbattia 
paniculata, discussed on page 280 of this volume. 
