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Several other species are found in Madagascar, some of them only recent discoveries. The occurrence of similar or even identical plants in tropical America and Madagascar has its analogy in the Animal Kingdom as represented in the two countries. Cultivation. All the species appear to grow well and flower freely under cultivation, the slowest grower being, perhaps, R. sarmentacea.
Some of the kinds thrive best when grafted on to a thin-stemmed Cereus. Treated in this way, R. sarmentacea makes 6 in. of growth in a season; whereas, on its own roots it would take about five years to grow as much. The following is a selection of the species cultivated in gardens. The genus Lepismium is now included in Rhipsalis.
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