The Cactaceae - descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family (1919) (14596535740b)

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Title: The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 Rose, J. N. (Joseph Nelson), 1862-1928
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Publisher: Washington : Carnegie Institution of Washington
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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152 THE CACTACEAE. 6 to 7 cm. thick, the base flat, the top bluntly pointed, strongly tubercled when young, the tubercleslow-conic, about 4 mm. high, about 1.5 cm. from tip to tip, bearing a deciduous triangular-lanceo-late scale 6 to 8 mm. long, becoming confluent, the fruit finally smooth or nearly so, yellow. Type locality: British Islands of America. Distribution: Jamaica. The following names were referred to Cereus repandus as synonyms by Schumann: Cereus tinei Todaro (Ind. Sem. Hort. Panorm. 39. 1857; C. cossyrensis Tineo in Todaro,Ind. Sem. Hort. Panorm. 39. 1857), said to have come from Brazil, and Cereus erectusPfeiffer (Enum. Cact. 95. 1837), stated definitely to have come from Mexico. Illustrations: Trew, PI. Select, pi. 14, as Cereus etc.; Loudon, Encycl. PL 411. f.6862; Edwardss Bot. Reg. 4: pi. 336, as Cactus repandus; De Candolle, Mem. Mus. Hist.Nat. Paris 17: pi. 13, as Cereus repandus; Pfeiffer and Otto, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. 1: pi.23, as Cereus undatus.
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Plate xx, figure 1, shows a fruiting branch of aplant in the the New York Botanical Garden.Figure 221 is from a photograph taken in Jamaica, con- FlG- 222.—Flower of Hamsia gracilis, tributed by William Harris; figure 222 is copied from the last illustration above cited.7. Harrisia simpsonii Small, sp. nov. Plants up to 6 meters high, erect, reclining, or spreading, simple or more or less branched; ribs8 to io;areoles 1 to 2 cm. apart; spines 7 to 14, gray when mature, 1 to 2.5 cm. long; buds white-hairy; flowers 12 to 17 cm. long; scales of the ovary lanceolate-subulate, subtending few white hairs10 mm. long or less; scales of the flower-tube lanceolate, distant; outer perianth-segments linear;inner perianth-segments spatulate, acute or acuminate, erose-denticulate; fruit depressed-globose,orange-red, 4 to 6 cm. in diameter. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL II

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