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RHIPSALIS Cassurua. 
Naked Cassutha. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Orv: NOPALEZ. 
Juss. incd.—De Canv.—Cactoides, Vewt.—Cactorum rum pars, Juss, Gen. Pi. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cal. superne subquadrifidus. Corolla 4-partita, una cum ca- 
lyce persistens. Stam. sub-duodecim ; antheris rotundatis. Stigma 3-fi- 
dum. acca pellucida. Semina 12-20 intra pulpam nidulantia. 
Plante aphylle. Caules cylindracei nunc fasciculatim pilosi, obscure arti- 
culati. Flores parvi. 
Rhipsalis Cassutha ; ramis verticillatis cylindraceis glabris nudis. 
R. Cassutha, Gartn. De Fruct. v.i. p. 137. t.28. f. 1—Haw. Syn. Pl. Suce. 
p- 187. 
Cactus pendulus, Sw. Fi. Ind. Occ. v. ii. p.876.—Witup. Sp. Pl. v. ii. p.942. 
Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. iii, p. 178. 
Cassytha baccifera, Miuu. Iilustr. 
Stems 2 feet, or rather more, in length, growing in their native country ei- 
ther upon the ground, or from the trunks of trees, drooping, much 
branched, the branches mostly verticillate, jointed, fragile at the joints, 
everywhere almost exactly cylindrical, green, Smooth, and naked. 
From the branches on all sides appear the small scattered flowers, when 
in perfection scarcely exceeding a hemp-seed in size, yellowish-white. 
rt very minute, cut into usually four ovate, obtuse, segments. 
4-partite, segments oblongo-ovate concave, nearly equal, erecto- 
tates including the stamens and style. Stamens about 12, united at 
the base of the petals. Filaments white, short. Anthers rounded, 4-lobed, 
dotted, yellowish-white. Germen inferior, or, more correctly speaking, 
incorporated with the tube of the calyx, thrice as large as the calyx and 
corolla, green, glabrous. Style longer than the stamens, but shorter than 
the corolla, filiform. Stigma 3-cleft, downy. The Fruit forms nearly 
spherical berries, about as large as pease, which are not unfrequently on 
the same plant with the flowers ; flesh-coloured, pellucid, terminated with 
the persistent calyx and — 7a juicy, es from m to 20 so 
brown seeds, aH 
long subangular brown 
central , and ste beautifully striated with dots. Albumen 0. 
Embryo of the sane shape as the seed, its radicle placed next the hilum. 
An inhabitant of the West Indian Islands and New Spain, . 
growing, as it is said, generally from the trunks of trees, in the 
same manner as the Misseltoe does with us. 
Such a place of ie combined with sch ait ae. ae 
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