Tas. 8013. 
RHIPSALIS pisstminis var. sETULOSA. 
Brazil. 
CactacE&,—Tribe OpuNTIn2. 
Rurrsatis, Gertn,; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 850; Engl. § 
Prantl Pflanzenf. vol. iii. 6A, p. 197. 
Rhipsalis dissimilis, A. Schum. var. setulosa, Weber in Rev. Hort. 1892, 
p. 428; K. Schum. Gesamtb. der Kakt. p. 647; ab typo perianthii seg- 
mentis numerosioribus exterioribus luteolis pallide brunneo-tinctis et 
staminibus 80 vel ultra differt. 
Planta succulenta, ramosa, 1-14 ped. alta. Caules biformes, furcati vel ver- 
ticillatim ramosi; rami 3-6 poll. longi, 3-4 lin. crassi, teretes vel 4-5 
angulati, lateribus plaris vel sulcatis, nunc glabri nunc ad areolas 
setuliferi. loves solitarii, ? poll. diam., luteo-albi, extra leviter brunneo- 
tincti. Ovarium immersum. Perianthii segmenta oblonga, obtusa, 
patula. Stamina 80 vel ultra, alba.—Rhipsalis setulosa, Weber in Rev. 
Hort. 1892, p. 628. 
Rhipsalis is the only genus of the Cactacee of which 
indigenous species occur outside of the American continent 
and adjacent islands, for the species of Opuntia found in 
various parts of the Old World have been introduced from 
America. But two species of Rhipsalis are natives of 
Tropical Africa, and three others are indigenous to the 
Mascarene Islands. No other genus in the order is so 
variable in the form of its stems and branches, as may 
easily be seen by comparing some of the species which 
have been figured in this Magazine, such as ft. mesem- 
brianthemoides (t. 3078), R. Cassytha (t. 3080), It. sali- 
cornoides (t. 2461), R. Mitilert (figured as Lepismium 
Myosurus, t. 8755), and It. Houlletii (t. 6089). Besides 
such distinct variation in different species, some also 
produce upon the same individual two distinct kinds of 
branches, as in the plant bere figured, and another example 
of the same nature will be found represented in the figure 
of £. salicornoides (t. 2461). 
The plant here figured was presented to Kew in 1899 
by Mr. Justus Corderoy,: of Blewbury, near Didcot, an 
ardent lover and very successful cultivator of succulent 
plants, who also presented to Kew f. Houlletii (t. 6089), 
May Ist, 1905. 
