. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 228 THE CACTACEAE. Stems erect or spreading, woody at base, lo to 12 mm. in diameter, much branched, especially- above, with 5 to 12 short ultimate branches at top of main ones; old branches terete, green or blotched with red; flowers usually several at top of short terminal branches and scattered all along the primary ones, 10 to 12 mm. broad, pale yellow; petals widely spreading; filaments and style white, erect. Type locality: Brazil. Distribution: States of Minas Geraes, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 228 THE CACTACEAE. Stems erect or spreading, woody at base, lo to 12 mm. in diameter, much branched, especially- above, with 5 to 12 short ultimate branches at top of main ones; old branches terete, green or blotched with red; flowers usually several at top of short terminal branches and scattered all along the primary ones, 10 to 12 mm. broad, pale yellow; petals widely spreading; filaments and style white, erect. Type locality: Brazil. Distribution: States of Minas Geraes, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Rhipsalis floribunda Schott was given by Schumann (Martins, Fl. Bras. 4-: 274. 1890) as a synonym of this species. Illustrations: Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 5: pi. 30, as Cactus teres; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 477. f. II, No. 22; Garten-Zeitung 4: 182. f. 42, No. 7, as Rhipsalis conferta. Plate XXVI, figure 5, shows a plant received from Kew in 1902 which flowered in the New York Botanical Garden in Fig. 223.—Rhipsalis shaferi. 14. Rhipsalis lindbergiana Schumann in Martius, Fl. Bras. 4^: 271. 1890. Rhipsalis erythrocarpa Schumann in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost. Afrikas 282. 1895. Hariota lindbergiana Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 3': 107. 1898. Rhipsalis densiareolata Lofgren, Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: 41. 1918. Very much branched, hanging from tree-trunks in great festoons, i to 2 meters long; joints elongated, 3 to 5 mm. in diameter; areoles filled with hairs and 2 bristles; flowers numerous, lateral, pinkish; ovary naked or nearly so; fruit light red, globose, 2 to 3 mm. in diameter, 16 to 20-seeded. Type locality: Near the city of Rio de Janeiro. Distribution: Mountainous regions in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Mount Kilman-Djaro, Africa. Rhipsalis erythrocarpa Schumann was described from herbarium specimens, collected on Mount Kilman-Djaro, in tropical Africa. We refer it to R. lindbergina Schumann in deference to the opinion of Mr. Roland-Gosselin* but w
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