. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. RHIPSALIDOPSIS. 209 axils are a large number of projecting white bristles. Still more different is the fruit, which Lofgren did not know. It is striking because of its size, about 10 to 12 mm. by 10 to 12 mm., and while the rest of the Rhipsalis fruits in size, form, and color resemble mistletoe berries or are rarely yellow or pale rose, these are strongly wine-red and beset with numerous bristles bearing small areoles, forming a wreath on the umbilicus of the fruit, like Cereiis and especially Opuntia, only the b
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. RHIPSALIDOPSIS. 209 axils are a large number of projecting white bristles. Still more different is the fruit, which Lofgren did not know. It is striking because of its size, about 10 to 12 mm. by 10 to 12 mm., and while the rest of the Rhipsalis fruits in size, form, and color resemble mistletoe berries or are rarely yellow or pale rose, these are strongly wine-red and beset with numerous bristles bearing small areoles, forming a wreath on the umbilicus of the fruit, like Cereiis and especially Opuntia, only the bristles are white and not pricking. In cross-sections the fruit is also red but has a watery sap and a larger number of seeds, coiled on the placenta in the middle of the fruit. The seeds are about double the size of those of ; I. Erythrorhipsalis pilocarpa (Lofgren) Berger, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 30: 4. 1920. Rhipsalis pilocarpa Lofgren, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 13: 52. 1903. Stems dark green to purple, at first erect, sometimes 4 dm. long and unbranched, terminated by 2 to 4 branches in a whorl, the ultimate branches often only i cm. long, in time the whole plant becoming pendent; joints clustered, when withering somewhat angled, tipped by yellow bristles; areoles filled with long setose hairs or bristles subtended by ovate scarious bracts; flowers at ends of terminal branches, very fragrant, opening slowly, up to 2 cm. broad; flower-tube 2 mm. long, reddish on the inside; outer perianth-segments 5 or 6, triangular, rose-colored; inner perianth- segments 10 to 15, spreading or sometimes recurved, lanceolate, acuminate, 10 mm. long, white or cream-colored with pinkish tips; stamens numerous, red at bases; ovary with several areoles, bearing as many as 10 bristles, subtended by small scarious scales and surrounded by purple spots; style exserted in the bud; stigma-lobes 4 to 8, white, spreading apart the second day after the appearance of the style and before the sta
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