The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . 12 THE CAC11ACEAE. Distribution: Southeastern South America; widely planted in tropical America. Cereus peruvianas tortuosus (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1844. 30. 1845) andC. peruvianas tortus (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 46. 1850) are names only. Cereus peruvianas monstrosus is a common garden form first described as a varietyby De Candolle (Prodr. 3:464. 1828). It is similar to the typical form except that theribs are often broken into irregular tubercles or are unevenly sulcate. This has also been. Fig.
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . 12 THE CAC11ACEAE. Distribution: Southeastern South America; widely planted in tropical America. Cereus peruvianas tortuosus (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1844. 30. 1845) andC. peruvianas tortus (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 46. 1850) are names only. Cereus peruvianas monstrosus is a common garden form first described as a varietyby De Candolle (Prodr. 3:464. 1828). It is similar to the typical form except that theribs are often broken into irregular tubercles or are unevenly sulcate. This has also been. Fig. 12.—A cultivated specim taken up as Cereus monstrosus (Steudel, Nom. ed. 2. 1:334. 1840), as Cereus monstrosusminor (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 1: 163. 1891) and as C. monstruosus Schumann (Engler andPrantl, Pflanzenfam. 36a: 178. 1894). It seems to be the same as Cactus abnormis Willde-now (Enum. PI. Suppl. 31. 1813).* Cereus peruvianus monstruosus nanus is a somewhatsimilar form mentioned by Schumann (Gesamtb. Kakteen 115. 1897) perhaps intended *Taken up later as Cereus abnormis by Sweet (Hort. Brit. 171cristatus (Graebener, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 11: 29. 1901). 1826). Another abnormal form is C. peruvianus
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