The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . as Cereus swartzii. Figure 126 is from a photograph taken by Mar-shall A. Howe near Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in1909; figure 127 shows a flower collected by WilliamHarris in Jamaica and figure 128 a fruit from thesame source. Here is probably to be referred Descourtilzsplate 419 (Fl. Med. Antill., vol. 6), which he sup-posed to be Cactus fimbriatus Lamarck. This plateseems to be based largely on Burmannsplate of Plumier 195, f. 2. This latterplate was made the type of HaworthsCereus grandispinus (Phil. Mag. 7:
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . as Cereus swartzii. Figure 126 is from a photograph taken by Mar-shall A. Howe near Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in1909; figure 127 shows a flower collected by WilliamHarris in Jamaica and figure 128 a fruit from thesame source. Here is probably to be referred Descourtilzsplate 419 (Fl. Med. Antill., vol. 6), which he sup-posed to be Cactus fimbriatus Lamarck. This plateseems to be based largely on Burmannsplate of Plumier 195, f. 2. This latterplate was made the type of HaworthsCereus grandispinus (Phil. Mag. 7: ; Pilocereus grandispinus Lemaire, 1862:427. 1862). 3. Lemaireocereusgriseus(Haworth)Britton andRose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 425. 1909. Cereus griseus Haworth, Syn. PI. Succ. 182. 1812. Cereus eburneus Salm-Dyck, Observ. Bot. 3: 6. crenulatus griseus Salm-Dyck in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 85Cereus eburneus polygonus Pfeiffer, Enum. Caet. 91. resupinalus Salm-Dyek, Allg. Gartenz. 8: 10. gladiger* Lemaire, Hort. Univ. 6: 60. Fig. 12 Flower of Lemaireocereus hystrixFruit of same. I837- *At place cited, by error spelled gladiiger, which some have cited as gladilger, thus making another error. THE CACTACEAE. Plant 8 meters high or less, sometimes branching at the base, sometimes with a definite trunkup to dm. in diameter, smooth when old; branches 8 to 10-ribbed, more or less glaucous; spinesacicular, gray, the longer ones 4 cm. long; flower-bud obtuse or rounded at apex, covered withoverlapping scales, these obtuse and brown; flowers pinkish, 7 cm. long; inner perianth-segmentswhite; style exserted before the flower opens; fruit subglobose, about 5 cm. in diameter, spiny,edible, the pulp red. Type locality: South America, but no definite locality cited. Distribution: Northern coast of Venezuela and adjacent islands; Curasao; Aruba;Bonaire; Margarita; Patos Island, Trinidad; and now cultivated in many parts of tropicalAmerica
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