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UNPUBLISHED OR INCOMPLETELY DESCRIBED SPECIES. 



Rhipsaus chrysantha Lofgren, Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro i : 99. 1915. 



We know this species only from description. Lofgren places it in his subgenus 

 Lepismium near Rhipsalis dissimilis, but his descriptions suggest R. rosea (our Rhipsali- 

 dopsis rosea). Both names are based on Dr. P. Dusen's collections from Parama, Brazil. 

 It seems near R. puniceo-discus. 



Rhipsalis frondosa Werckle, Subregion Fitogeografica Costa Ricense 42. 1909. 



The above name is given without description. 



Weingart (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 20: 185. 1910) refers to this plant as a new species 

 represented in a sending from Costa Rica by Werckle. Nothing further is known about it. 



Rhipsalis riedeliana Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. i860: 49. i860. 

 Hariola riedeliana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i: 263. 1891. 



This plant was sent from Brazil by Riedel, but we do not know it. Schumann did not 

 know it. 



Rhipsalis bucheni Behagnon (Rev. Hort. 85: 436. f. 152. 1913) we know only from the 

 illustration of a poor potted plant and an incomplete description. 



Rhipsalis carnosa and R. lagenaria are names mentioned by Vochting (Jahrb. Wiss. 

 Bot. Leipzig 9: 368, 372. 1873). 



Rhipsalis erythrolepis Benagnon (Rev. Hort. 85: f. 152, part) is known only from a 

 potted plant of some species with broad, flat joints. 



Rhipsalis filiformis seems to be only a garden name (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 6: 47. 

 1896). It may be the same as R. cribrata filiformis Engelhardt (MoUers Deutsche Gart. 

 Zeit. 18: 585. 1903). 



Rhipsalis itatiaiae Weber appears in Robert Lamb's Collection of Cacti, page 72, 

 1908, without description. In 1914 Mr. Lamb sent Dr. Rose a specimen under this name, 

 but it has not bloomed. A part of this plant from Mount Itatiaya, Brazil, is now grow- 

 ing in the New York Botanical Garden (Rose, No. 888). 



Rhipsalis macahensis Glaziou (Bull. Soc. Bot. France Mem. iii. 326. 1909) is only a 

 name. According to Glaziou he collected it on rocks and trees at Alto Macahe, Rio de 

 Janeiro (No. 18262). 



Rhipsalis microcarpa Steudel, is a name found only in Schumann's Index (Gesamtb. 

 Kakteen 832. 1898). 



Rhipsalis miquelii Lemaire (Cactees 80. 1868) is not described but it is grouped with 

 R. pachyptera, R. rhomhea, and other flat-jointed species. Lemaire also lists R. turpinii on 

 the same page, associating it with R. micrantha and R. trigona. 



Rhipsalis oligosperma Lindberg (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 7:21. 1897) is a name only. 



Rhipsalis spathulata Otto (Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 3. 1839) Schumann thought might be 

 a mistake for Pereskia spathulata. Kuntze takes it up, however, as Hariota spathulata 

 (Rev. Gen. PI. i: 263. 1891). 



The name Rhipsalis taglionis occurs in the Index Kewensis Supplement i, by error for 

 R. saglionsis. 



Rhipsalis wettsteinii Schumann (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 17: 48. 1907) is a name only. 



The illustration (fig. 233a) given on next page is a reproduction of Plumier's plate 

 92 of Burmann Plantarum Americanum pubished in 1755 and now referred to Neoabbaitia 

 paniculata, discussed on page 280 of this volume. 



