. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. RHIPSALIS. 223 Type locality: Not cited, but Forster and Weber state that it came from Brazil. Distribution: Brazil and northern Madagascar, but range not known. Weber thought that Rhipsalis tetragona was the same as R. prismatica Riimpler, but because he was not certain he described it as new. Illustration: Gartenwelt 16: 634, as Rhipsalis suareziana; Monatsschf. Kakteenk. 18: 74, as R. tetragona. Plate XXXII, figure 3, shows a plant from Berlin which flowered in the New York Botanical Garden on November 23, 1915
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. RHIPSALIS. 223 Type locality: Not cited, but Forster and Weber state that it came from Brazil. Distribution: Brazil and northern Madagascar, but range not known. Weber thought that Rhipsalis tetragona was the same as R. prismatica Riimpler, but because he was not certain he described it as new. Illustration: Gartenwelt 16: 634, as Rhipsalis suareziana; Monatsschf. Kakteenk. 18: 74, as R. tetragona. Plate XXXII, figure 3, shows a plant from Berlin which flowered in the New York Botanical Garden on November 23, Fig. 221.—Rhipsalis ccreuscula. 4. Rhipsalis simmleri Beauverd, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 7: 136. 1907. Stems pendent, cylindric, 2 to 3 mm. in diameter, very much branched, the branches dichoto- mous or 3 or 4-verticillate, upper short and somewhat angled, quite unlike lower ones; flowers solitary, subterminal; petals white with pink tips, oblong, 6 to 8 mm. long; filaments 5 to 8 mm. long, white, filiform; style exserted, 9 mm. long; stigma-lobes ovate, reflexed, white; ovary obconic, 3 to mm. in diameter; fruit white. Type locality: Costa Rica. Distribution: Costa Rica. This species is named for Paul Simmler, chief gardener of the Boissier Collections at Geneva, Switzerland. The plant was introduced in a collection of orchids from Costa Rica and flowered in cultivation. Dr. Rose saw it when in Geneva in 1912 and obtained a small fragment, but he did not see it in flower. Illustration: Bull, Herb. Boiss. II. 7: 137. 5. Rhipsalis clavata Weber, Rev. Hort. 64: 429. 1892. Rhipsalis clavata deUcalula Lofgren, Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 2: 45. 1918. Erect when young but soon hanging, often a meter long or more, much branched; joints all similar, narrowly clavate, sometimes 4-angled when young, short, i to 3 cm. long, deep Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and ap
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