. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 242 THK CACTACEAE. This species flowers in March. Rhipsalis coriacea, which originally came from Costa Rica, Schumann referred to R. data of Jamaica, a plant of similar habit but yet very distinct. Illustration: Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 8: 466, as Rhipsalis angustissima. Of plate XXXII, figure 4 shows a flowering specimen and figure 5 a fruiting specimen from a plant collected by Wm. R. Maxon at Tunialba, Costa Rica, in April 1900, painted at the New York Botanical Garden on April 12, 1912. 47. Rhipsalis jamaic
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 242 THK CACTACEAE. This species flowers in March. Rhipsalis coriacea, which originally came from Costa Rica, Schumann referred to R. data of Jamaica, a plant of similar habit but yet very distinct. Illustration: Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 8: 466, as Rhipsalis angustissima. Of plate XXXII, figure 4 shows a flowering specimen and figure 5 a fruiting specimen from a plant collected by Wm. R. Maxon at Tunialba, Costa Rica, in April 1900, painted at the New York Botanical Garden on April 12, 1912. 47. Rhipsalis jamaicensis Britton and Harris, Torreya 9; 159. 1909- Pendent from trees, 3 to lo dm. long, the main axis angular; joints i to 4 dm. long, i to cm. broad, thin, dull green, bluntish at apex, narrowed into a short or elongated stipe at base, the margins low-crenate; flowers yellowish green, about 6 mm. long; perianth-segments about 7, oblong to oblan- ceolate, only a little spreading, obtusish; ovary oblong, bearing a few small scales; stamens 20 to 30; style longer than stamens; stigma-lobes 3; fruit globose, 6 to 8 mm. in diameter, white, the scales 3 mm. broad. Type locality: Troy, Cockpit Country, Jamaica. Distribution: Forests of Jamaica. Illustration: Torreya 9: 158. f. 3. Plate XXII, figure 4, shows a plant with flowers and young fruit from Jamaica. 48. Rhipsalis platycarpa (Zuccarini) Pfehfer, Enum. Cact. 131. 1837. Epiphyltum platycarpum Zuccarini, Cat. Cact. Monac. 1836. Cereus platycarpus Zuccarini, Abh. Baj-er. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen 2: 736. 1837. Hariota platycarpa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i: 263. 1S91. Branches broad and flat, i to 2 dm. long, 3 cm. broad or more, dull green becoming red when grown in sunlight, with broad deep crenations; flowers borne toward apex of branch, i to 3 from an areole, 16 to 18 mm. long, greenish yellow or dull white; petals 8 mm. long, ovate; stamens white; stigma-lobes 5, white; fruit (doubtless im- mature) naked, green, somewhat compressed,
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