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Tas. 6089, 
~RHIPSALIS Hoocttern. 
Native of Brazil ? 
Nat. Ord. Cactea.—Tribe Oruntien. 
Genus Rurpsauis, Gertn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 850), 
Rurpsatis Houlletit; epiphytica, pendula, ramosa, glaberrima, caulibus 
gracilibus, ramulis foliaceo-dilatatis planis, internodiis elliptico-lanceo- 
latis 1-1}-poll. diam. grosse obtuse serratis coriaceo-carnosis nervis 
obscuris, floribus fere 1-poll. diametro pallide flavis odoris, ovario 
exserto oblongo obtuse 4-5-costato, perianthii foliolis 8-12 erecto- 
patentibus lanceolatis acutis, exterioribus paullo minoribus, staminibus 
numerosis perianthio brevioribus, stylo gracili, stigmatibus 4-5. 
Rurpsatts Houlletii, Lemaire, Les Cactee, p. 80, nomen tantum. 
This Rhipsalis has been cultivated for some time in the 
Royal Gardens, where it flowered first in November, 1872, 
and it has been received also from Mr. Corderoy, who sent us 
flowering specimens to be named in the same month of 1873. 
Quite recently Mr. Green contributed a fine plant of it from 
Mr. Wilson Saunders’ late collection, which came from 
Paris, with the name I have adopted. I have failed to find 
any description of this species in any horticultural or botani- 
cal work. I may here mention that the difficulty of running 
down names of Garden plants is, through obvious causes, be- 
coming immense, and will soon be insuperable. I can recom- 
mend no more useful object to a Horticultural Society than 
the organizifg a committee for the collection and classifica- 
tion (with references) of the names of all plants introduced 
into cultivation, together with the countries the plants come 
from, and their date of introduction. 
Duscr. Stem probably many feet long, and pendulous 
from the branches of trees in its native woods, quite glabrous, 
‘green, with a faint tinge of brown purple along the margins 
of the leaf-like articulations, slender and cylindric between 
the ‘articulations. Articulations three to six inches long, by 
MARCH Ist, 1874. 
