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THE CACTACEAE. 



Stems erect or spreading, woody at base, lo to 12 mm. in diameter, much branched, especially- 

 above, with 5 to 1 2 short ultimate branches at top of main ones ; old branches terete, green or blotched 

 with red ; flowers usually several at top of short terminal branches and scattered all along the primary 

 ones, 10 to 12 mm. broad, pale yellow; petals widely spreading; filaments and style white, erect. 



Type locality: Brazil. 



Distribution: States of Minas Geraes, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Rhipsalis floribunda Schott was given by Schumann (Martins, Fl. Bras. 4-: 274. 1890) 

 as a synonym of this species. 



Illustrations: Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 5: pi. 30, as Cactus teres; Mollers Deutsche Gart. 

 Zeit. 25: 477. f. II, No. 22; Garten-Zeitung 4: 182. f. 42, No. 7, as Rhipsalis conferta. 



Plate XXVI, figure 5, shows a plant received from Kew in 1902 which flowered in the 

 New York Botanical Garden in 19 17. 



Fig. 223. — Rhipsalis shaferi. 



14. Rhipsalis lindbergiana Schumann in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4^: 271. 1890. 



Rhipsalis erythrocarpa Schumann in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost. Afrikas 282. 1895. 



Hariota lindbergiana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 3': 107. 1898. 



Rhipsalis densiareolata Lofgren, Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: 41. 1918. 



Very much branched, hanging from tree-trunks in great festoons, i to 2 meters long; joints 

 elongated, 3 to 5 mm. in diameter; areoles filled with hairs and 2 bristles; flowers numerous, lateral, 

 pinkish; ovary naked or nearly so; fruit light red, globose, 2 to 3 mm. in diameter, 16 to 20-seeded. 



Type locality: Near the city of Rio de Janeiro. 



Distribution: Mountainous regions in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Mount 

 Kilman-Djaro, Africa. 



Rhipsalis erythrocarpa Schumann was described from herbarium specimens, collected 

 on Mount Kilman-Djaro, in tropical Africa. We refer it to R. lindbergina Schumann in 

 deference to the opinion of Mr. Roland-Gosselin* but we have not had specimens for study. 



Illustrations: Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: pi. 12, as Rhipsalis densiareolata. 

 Rev. Hort. 85: f. 152, in part, as R. erythrolepis; Martius, Fl. Bras. 4-: pi. 53; Arch. Jard; 

 Bot. Rio de Janeiro 1 : pi. 4. 



*Bull. Soc. Bot. France 59: 100. 



