Tas. 5136. 
RHIPSALIS sarMENTACEA. 
Sarmentose Rhipsalis. 
* 
Nat. Ord. Cactace®.—IcosanpRia MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. Perigonii tubus ultra germen non productus; phylla 12-18, 
sepaloidea brevissima squamiformia, petaloidea rotatim expansa. Stamina nume- 
rosa, longitudine subeequalia et limbum equantia. Stylus filiformis. Stigma 
3—6-radiatum. Bacea a principio emersa, pisiformis, glabra, matura pellucens, 
Perigonio marcescente coronata.  Cotyledones breves, acute.—Plante pseudo- 
par asilica, interdum subradicantes. Caulis articulato-ramosus, teres, angulosus, aut 
Soliaceo-dilatatus, crenulatus ; crene sguamula vie conspicua instructe, nude, sub- 
lanate vel setas minutas gerentes. Flores laterales (rarissime terminales), parvuli 
subephemeri. Salin-Dyck. 
RHIPSALIS sarmentacea ; caule gracili repente radicante ramoso terete obtusan- 
gulo, angulis 4-8 parum prominentibus, areolis confertis minutis subto- 
mentosis, aculeis paucis (8-12, Ofto) tenuissimis setaceis ineequalibus rectis 
ulveis, floribus subsolitariis sparsis albis. 
Rartpsauts sarmentacea. Ofto et Dietr. Allegm. Gartenz. 1841, p. 98. Walp. 
Repert. Bot. v. 2. p. 244. Cactee Hort. Dyck. p. 60 et 229. 
* CEREUS lumbricoides, Lem.” 
Native of Buenos Ayres and South Brazil. We had the satis- 
faction of receiving the branch of a tree from W. D. Christie, 
Esq., H.B.M. Minister Plenipotentiary, Argentine Republic, i 
the winter of 1858~9, covered with the creeping and rooting 
stems of this singular plant, which soon after being suspended 
from the roof of a warm stove, produced its delicate white 
flowers without any nourishment from soil. _ It probably runs 
Over rocks in a similar manner. 
Duscr. Stems prostrate, creeping, 
able length, and slightly attached to 
Suckers of the fibrous roofs, branc 
scarcely so thick as a goose-quill, terete, green, 
our to eight, shallow; angles, or ribs, very ob 
munute, downy, bearing a few (four to six or seven), 
lated, filiform, greyish or white aculei. Flowers solitary, 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1859. 
extending for a consider- 
its place of growth by the 
hed. Stems and branches 
furrowed ; furrows 
tusé. Areoles 
short, stel- 
scattered. 
