The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 29.—Cephalocereus fluminen for another plant. Although this species is very common on all the rocky knolls and out-crops about the harbor of Rio de Janeiro, it has rarely been collected and no living orherbarium material was in the Washington and New York collections until Dr. Rose col-lected it in Brazil in 1915. ?Schumann (Martius, Fl. Bras. 42: 216. 1890) erroneously refers this binomial to Vellozo. 3Q THE CACTACEAK. Illustrations: Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 5: pi. 20, as Cactus melocactus; Martius, Fl. : pi
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 29.—Cephalocereus fluminen for another plant. Although this species is very common on all the rocky knolls and out-crops about the harbor of Rio de Janeiro, it has rarely been collected and no living orherbarium material was in the Washington and New York collections until Dr. Rose col-lected it in Brazil in 1915. ?Schumann (Martius, Fl. Bras. 42: 216. 1890) erroneously refers this binomial to Vellozo. 3Q THE CACTACEAK. Illustrations: Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 5: pi. 20, as Cactus melocactus; Martius, Fl. : pi. 43; Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 36a: f. 65, b, as Cephalocereus melocactus; Mo-natsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 25, as Pilocereus melocactus. Figure 29 is from a photograph taken at Rio de Janeiro by Paul G. Russell in 1915;figure 26 shows the fruit as drawn by A. Lofgren. Cereus ferox Haworth (Phil. Mag. 7: 109. 1830) may be of this relationship. It isdescribed as upright, stout, oblong, terete, 9 inches high, 2 inches in diameter, dark green;ribs about 18, densely covered
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