. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. HATIORA. 217 Key to Species. Lower part of joints slender, pedicel-like i. H. salicornioides Joints only slightly narrowed below or not narrowed. Joints clavate 2. H. bambusoides Joints cylindric 3- H. cylindrica 1. Hatiora salicornioides (Haworth) Britton and Rose, Stand. Cycl. Hort. Bailey 3: 1433. 1915. Rhipsalis salicornoides Haworth, Suppl. PI. Succ. 83. 1S19. Cactus salicornioides* Link and Otto, Icon. PI. Select. 49. 1822. Cactus lyratus Vellozo, Fl. Flum. ed. 2. 4: 205. 1825. Hariota salicornioides De Cand
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. HATIORA. 217 Key to Species. Lower part of joints slender, pedicel-like i. H. salicornioides Joints only slightly narrowed below or not narrowed. Joints clavate 2. H. bambusoides Joints cylindric 3- H. cylindrica 1. Hatiora salicornioides (Haworth) Britton and Rose, Stand. Cycl. Hort. Bailey 3: 1433. 1915. Rhipsalis salicornoides Haworth, Suppl. PI. Succ. 83. 1S19. Cactus salicornioides* Link and Otto, Icon. PI. Select. 49. 1822. Cactus lyratus Vellozo, Fl. Flum. ed. 2. 4: 205. 1825. Hariota salicornioides De CandoUe, Mem. Cact. 23. 1834. Rhipsalis salicornioides strictior Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 230. 1850. Hariota salicornioides strictior Giirke, Bliihende Kakteen 2: under pi. 95. 1907. Stems I to 2 meters long with a jointed cylindric trunk; branchlets club-shaped, the lower part very slender and pedicel-like, i .5 to 3 cm. long, green or purplish; areoles of cultivated specimens without setae; flowers 8 to 10 mm. long, salmon-colored, the outer sepals short and obtuse; inner petals somewhat cre- nate, obtuse; filaments yellowish, at top appressed against style, shorter than petals; style yellowish; stigma-lobes 4 or 5, white. Type locality: Recorded origi- nally from the West Indies in error. Distribution: Southeast Brazil. These plants grow quite differ- ently in the woods from the way they do in greenhouses. The following note was made by Dr. Rose in 1915 while collecting at Rio de Janeiro: The plant grows on trunks of trees, i''« its roots long and fibrous, 4 dm. long or more and wrapped about the trunk of the tree; at first it is erect, then spreading and finally pendent; it is then a meter ^'^- 219-—Unusual form of Hatiora salicornioides. X long or more and very much branched; main stem and branches 5 to 10 mm. in diameter, made up of short terete joints (2 to 5 cm. long); branches in whorls of 2 to 6. A very remarkable form, if not a distinct species, was obt
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