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PSEUDORHIPSALIS 6. Teres Vel 1841—flowers pale yellow; 
Group of plants similar to Rhipsalis. 
ored; fruit white; branches are long, 
bright green, corrugated links. 
branches slim, pencil-like. 
1. Alata Swartz 1788—flowers cream; fruit 7. Virgata Web 1892—flower cream, fruit 
yellow-green; elongated leaf-like stems— white; branches long and slim, smaller 
$1.50 than Teres. 
. Macrantha—new species; flowers large; 8. Warmingiana Sch 1890—flowers white; 
bright saffron and yellow; petals long fruit black, often remaining for several 
and narrow, wide spread in flat wheel years; branches long and slender, some 
with numerous white stamens erect in flat, some 3-angled, hanging like a shower 
center; free blooming and extra fragrant of rain and suggesting ‘Niagara Falls” 
& & &8& & 8 
—75c when in bloom. 
RHIPSALIS Rhipsalis: 50c each—7 for $3.00 
See ET: p20 1. Capilliformis Web 1892—flowers creamy ; 
. Cereuscula Haw 1830—“Rice Shower;” fruit pinkish; branches waxy green, very 
often sold under name of Cassutha; flow- tiny and dainty. 
ers white; fruit white; branches terete. De Gicsuthat Cee ome reocrenin stritt 
ee Lem 1857—flowers cream; fruit white or pink; branches small, terete; 
ae ish; aeaet pa in form to similar to Cereuscula but of a lighter and 
Hae a “4 not so oe be Mee appearance. 
. Houlletiana Lem 1858—“Paper Leaf;” : 2 
flowers cream colored with rosy eye; fruit 3. rales na Erpae cee: Peo ase 
red; branches elongated and flat, very ee a Wy ee obs an ete i 
pink, with closely notched saw-toothed raga NETO Mh MOU SS sky PUG OE SOE: 
edges. eleei 
4, Paradoxia S-D 1845—flowers white; 4. Elliptica Lin 1890—flower yellowish; 
branches pinched as if made from pottery fruit reddish ; branches composed of flat 
clay by human fingers; long zigzag links. and broad joints with a pinkish coloring. 
. Pentaptera Pfs 1836—flowers cream col- 5. Heteroclada B & R—flowers white; fruit 
white; branches are dark green, slender 
cylinders, falling in a delicate shower. 

True species (left to right): Epiphyllum strictum, E. anguliger, E. Pfersdorfii, E. Kinchin- 
junga, E. oxypetalum, E. crenatum, Heliocereus speciosus. 
