The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . M. E. Eaton del 1. Fruit of Hylocereus trigonus. 2. Flower of Selenicereus boeckmannii 3. Fruit of Selenicereus boeckmannii. (All natural size.) SELENICEREUS. 205 Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 9:23; Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 16: pi. n, f. 4, 5;Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen Nachtr. f. 7; Bliihende Kaktecn 3: pi. 161, 162; Wildeman,Icon. Select. 3:pi. 103, all as Cereus hamatus; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 14: 340; DeLaet, Cat. Gen. f. 30, as Cereus rostratus; Rev. Hort. Beige 40: after 184, as Cereus kostratus;*Bull.


The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . M. E. Eaton del 1. Fruit of Hylocereus trigonus. 2. Flower of Selenicereus boeckmannii 3. Fruit of Selenicereus boeckmannii. (All natural size.) SELENICEREUS. 205 Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 9:23; Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 16: pi. n, f. 4, 5;Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen Nachtr. f. 7; Bliihende Kaktecn 3: pi. 161, 162; Wildeman,Icon. Select. 3:pi. 103, all as Cereus hamatus; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 14: 340; DeLaet, Cat. Gen. f. 30, as Cereus rostratus; Rev. Hort. Beige 40: after 184, as Cereus kostratus;*Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Arts and Sci. 5: 236, 237 (2 figures). Figure 282 is from a photograph of a flower, taken at the New York Botanical Gardenon the evening of October 10, 1910; figure 283 shows a part of a Fig. 284.—Selenicereus vagans. 12. Selenicereus vagans (K. Brandegee). Cereus vagans K. Brandegee, Zoe 5: 191. 1904. Cereus longicaudatus Weber in Gosselin, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 10: 384. 1904. Stems creeping over rocks, often forming large clumps, more or less rooting, 1 to cm. indiameter; ribs about 10, low; areoles 1 to cm. apart; spines acicular, numerous, less than 1 , brownish yellow; flower 15 cm. long; tube, including throat, about 9 cm. long, slightly curved,brownish, with small scattered scales bearing clusters of 5 to 8 acicular spines in their axils; throatnarrow, 5 cm. long; outer perianth-segments linear, brownish to greenish white, 6 cm. long; inner *Doubtless error for rostratus. 206 the; cactaceae. perianth-segments white, oblaneeolate, 6 cm. long, with short acuminate tips, the margins undulateor toothed, especially above; stamens numerous, weak; filaments white or white with greenishbases; style greenish or greenish with cream-colored upper pa


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