. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. io8 THIC FIG. 159.—Flower of B. emoryi. Tin- xfii'is is monotypic; it is named in honor of Alwin Berger, author of an excellent discussion of tin- genus ( \'rcns, who was long in charge of the garden of Sir Thomas Hanbury at La Mortnla, Italy. 1. Bergerocactus emoryi (Engelmann) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12:435,* 474. 1909. Cerrim fmoryi KiiKclmann, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 14:338. 1852. !•'.( hinnccrriis emiiryi Riimpler in Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 804. 1885. Branches 2 to 6 dm. long, 3 to 6 cm. in diameter,
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. io8 THIC FIG. 159.—Flower of B. emoryi. Tin- xfii'is is monotypic; it is named in honor of Alwin Berger, author of an excellent discussion of tin- genus ( \'rcns, who was long in charge of the garden of Sir Thomas Hanbury at La Mortnla, Italy. 1. Bergerocactus emoryi (Engelmann) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12:435,* 474. 1909. Cerrim fmoryi KiiKclmann, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 14:338. 1852. !•'.( hinnccrriis emiiryi Riimpler in Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 804. 1885. Branches 2 to 6 dm. long, 3 to 6 cm. in diameter, entirely covered with the dense spiny arma- ment; ribs 20 to 25, very low, only a few millimeters high, somewhat tuberculate; spines 10 to 30, yellow to yellowish brown, acicular, i to 4 cm. long; flowers about 2 cm. long and about as broad when expanded; outer perianth-segments obovate, obtuse; inner perianth-segments oblong, about i cm. long. Type locality: "About the boundary line" of California and Lower California. Distribution: Near the coast of southwestern California and northwestern Lower California and adjacent islands. Illustration: Engelmann, Cact. Mex. Bound, pi. 60, f. i to 4, as Cereus emoryi. Figure 158 is from a photograph taken by E. 0. Wooton on San Clemente Island, California, in 1912; figure 159 shows a dried flower collected by Le Roy Abrams at Tia Juana, San Diego County, California, in 1903. 15. LEOCEREUS gen. nov. Stems long and slender, nearly terete, somewhat vine-like in habit; ribs numerous, but low and indistinct; areoles approximate, bearing acicular spines and felt, but no wool or hairs; flowers axillary, solitary, small, narrowly campanulate, with a short limb; ovary and flower-tube very scaly, the scales bearing numerous silky hairs and bristly spines in their axils; fruit small, globular; seeds black, shining, pitted. In its narrow flower, in the hairs in axils of the scales on the ovary and tube, this genus suggests Oreoccrcus,
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