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cites Sloane, Jamaica, pi. 22^.. f. j and ,/, which is a species of 

 Vanilla, probably V. Egg.rsiana Rolfe. Inasmuch as Adanson 

 did not typify Hariota binominal ly, and as the type of Cactus 

 parasiticus L. is a Vanilla, it would appear that the name Hariota 

 must be passed over, although it was taken up by Dr. Otto 

 Kuntze (Rev. Gen. PI. 261. i89i),and the species of Rhipsalis 



Y\c. i. Rhipsrtla Gissutka Gaertn. Near Utuado, Porto Rico. Photographed 



by Dr. Marshall A. Howe. 



known to him transferred to it. Through Linnaeus's blunder 

 of uniting two widely different plants, which he knew only from 

 illustrations, we are apparently prevented from using the name 

 Hariota, and the next oldest available generic name is Rhipsalis. 

 The species of Rhipsalis are mainly epiphytic, drooping from 



