. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 226 THE CACTACEAE. Rhipsalis parasitica Haworth, Syn. PI. Succ. 187. 1812. Cactus caripetisis* Htimboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6: 66. Cereiis caripensis De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 467. 1828. Rhipsalis cassytha dichotoma De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 476. 1828. Rhipsalis cassytha manritianai De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 476. 1828. Rhipsalis cassytha mociniana De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 476. 1828. Rhipsalis cassytha hookeriana De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 476. 1828. Rhipsalis cass'ytha swartziana De Candolle, Mem. Mus. Hist.
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 226 THE CACTACEAE. Rhipsalis parasitica Haworth, Syn. PI. Succ. 187. 1812. Cactus caripetisis* Htimboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6: 66. Cereiis caripensis De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 467. 1828. Rhipsalis cassytha dichotoma De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 476. 1828. Rhipsalis cassytha manritianai De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 476. 1828. Rhipsalis cassytha mociniana De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 476. 1828. Rhipsalis cassytha hookeriana De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 476. 1828. Rhipsalis cass'ytha swartziana De Candolle, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 17: 80. Rhipsalis dichotoma G. Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 3: 176. 1834. Rhipsalis hookeriana G. Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 3: 176. 1834. Rhipsalis cassythoides G. Don, Hist. Dichl. PI. 3: 176. 1S34. Rhipsalis cassutha pendula Salm-Dj-ck in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 134. 1837. Rhipsalis undulata Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 136. 1837. Hariota cassytha Lemaire, Cact, Gen. Nov. Sp. 75. 1839. Cereus parasiticus Haworth in Steudel, Nom. ed. 2. i: 335. 1840. Rhipsalis aethiopica Wehvitsch, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3: 152. 1S59 Rhipsalis minutiflora Schumann in jNIartius, Fl. Bras. 4^: 271. 1890. Hariota parasitica Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL i: 262. 1891. Rhipsalis coniorensis Weber, Rev. Hort. 64: 424. 1892. Rhipsalis zanzibaricai Weber, Rev. Hort. 64: 425. Fig. 222.—Rhipsalis cassutha. Epiphytic or saxicolous, usualty growing on trunk or branches of large trees, hanging in large clusters, i to 9 meters long, the branches weak and pendent; branches when young bearing 5 to 9 white bristles at the areoles, when old naked, terete, sometimes producing aerial roots, often only 3 mm. in diameter, light green, usually growing from tips of other branches, generally in pairs but sometimes in clusters of 6 or 8; flowers lateral, solitary, smah, greenish in bud, sometimes subtended by a single bristle; petals 2 mm. long, cream-colored; stamens borne on disk; ovary exserted; fruit naked, white or pink, m
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