. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 2O THE CACTACEAE. Type locality: In Brazil. Distribution: Brazil, widely planted and subspontaneous throughout the West Indies. The plant is extensively used for hedges in tropical America. It is planted by pushing cuttings into the ground, its spiny stems soon forming a capital barrier. Illustrations: Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 5: pi. 27, as Cactus rosa. Amer. Garden n: 462; Bliihende Kakteen 3: 137; Curtis's Bot. Mag. 63: pi. 3478; Cycl. Amer. Hort. Bailey i: f. 309; Diet. Hort. Bois f. 678; Edwards's Bot. Mag. 17: pi. 1473; Engler and Prantl, Pflanz
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 2O THE CACTACEAE. Type locality: In Brazil. Distribution: Brazil, widely planted and subspontaneous throughout the West Indies. The plant is extensively used for hedges in tropical America. It is planted by pushing cuttings into the ground, its spiny stems soon forming a capital barrier. Illustrations: Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 5: pi. 27, as Cactus rosa. Amer. Garden n: 462; Bliihende Kakteen 3: 137; Curtis's Bot. Mag. 63: pi. 3478; Cycl. Amer. Hort. Bailey i: f. 309; Diet. Hort. Bois f. 678; Edwards's Bot. Mag. 17: pi. 1473; Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 36;1: f. 71; Card. Chron. III. 20: f. 75; Karsten, Deutsch. Fl. 887. f. 9; Martius, Fl. Bras. 4": pi. 63; Pfeiffer and Otto, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. i: pi. 30; Reichen- bach, Fl. Exot. pi. 328, all as Pcrcskia blco. *~. FIG. 15.—Pereskia bahiensis. Photograph by Paul G. Russell. Plate in, figure i, represents a flowering branch of a plant obtained by N. L. Britton on St. Christopher in 1901. Figure 16 is from a photograph of the plant used as a hedge near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 15. Pereskia zinniaeflora De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 475. 1828. Shrub; leaves oval to oblong, 2 to 4 cm. long, acuminate, cuneate at base; spines on young branches i or 2 at an areole, on old branches 4 or 5, all short, less than i cm. long; flowers broad, 5 cm. wide, rose-red; petals entire, obtuse or retuse; style and stamens very short; ovary truncate, bearing small, stalked leaves. Type locality: In Mexico. Distribution: Mexico. Nicholson associates this species with Pcrcskia blco, that is, P. grLimlijoliit, but the relationship is not close. The measurements of the flower given above are taken from. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Carnegie Institution of Washington. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Was
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