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

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

 did not ty])ify Hariota binominally, and as the t)'pe of Cactus 

 parasiticus L. is a Vani'la, it would appear that the name Hariota 

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

 Kuntze (Rev. Gen. PI. 261. 1 891), and the species of Rhipsalis 



Y\(; I. Khifisalis C'isuiiha Gaertn. Near Uluado, Porio Rico. Photographed 



by Dr. Marshall A. Howe. 



knov/n 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 



