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CALYCI FLORAE. 
whorled. Fruit resembling the former species in size 
&c., but destitute of the leaf-like sepals. 
V. Rhipsalis. 
Calycine tube adherent to the ovary, smooth r 
limb 3-6-partite. Petals 4-6. Stamens 12-18. 
Style filiform : stigmata 3-6, patulous. Berry 
pellucid, roundish, crowned with the marescent 
calyx : seeds nidulant in pulp. 
Pseudo-parasitic plants, growing on trees, leafless, with 
small flowers, and with berries white, resembling those of 
the mistletoe. — Name from ^ a willow branch , in allusion, 
to the long flexible stems and branches. 
1. Rhipsalis Cassytha. Naked Cassytha. 
Pendulous, branches whorled naked glabrous, 
calyx 4-6 partite, petals 4-6. 
Cactus parasiticus, Browne , 238. — C. pendulus, Swartz , 
FI. Ind. Occ. 876. — Rhipsalis cassytha, Gcertner, Fr. 136. 
t. 28. — Hooker, Bot. Mag. 3080 — Exotic FI. t. 2. 
II AB. On Trees, where the climate is damp. 
F L. During the Summer months. 
The main branches terminating in a whorl of 3-& 
branchlcts ; terete, glabrous, marked with dots or scars, 
irregularly scattered, the future sites of flowers or young 
shoots, each furnished with a minute setaceous deciduous 
apicula. Flowers small, scattered, sessile, greenish-white. 
Calyx minute, 4-partite : the 2 outer lobes smaller than 
the 2 inner which are petaloid. Petals 4, equal, oblong, 
rounded at the apex. Stamens 10-12, half the length of 
the petals. Ovary green, glabrous : style longer than the 
stamens: stigma 3-4 fid. Berry size of a small pea, 
white tinged with red, transparent, apparently 3-placen- 
tular: seeds oo , black. 
According to Sir William Hooker’s specimen’s the pe- 
tals are 5. I have most frequently found the lobes of the 
calyx and the petals 4. The lobes of the calyx are not 
acuminate. 
