The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . ig. 184.—Acanthocere f Charles Deering at Buena Vista. Florida, May 1918. Cereus undulatus Pfeiffer (Enum. Cact. 107. 1837), based on a specimen in the DresdenGarden, is usually referred to Cereus acutangulus, but was not described by Pfeiffer at theplace here cited. A specimen in the Berlin Garden also was called Cereus undulatus by D. Dietrich ( 3: 104. 1843) and described, but should be referred elsewhere. It is of quite differentrelationship, being very slender, dull green, 10-ribbed. The flowers are larg
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . ig. 184.—Acanthocere f Charles Deering at Buena Vista. Florida, May 1918. Cereus undulatus Pfeiffer (Enum. Cact. 107. 1837), based on a specimen in the DresdenGarden, is usually referred to Cereus acutangulus, but was not described by Pfeiffer at theplace here cited. A specimen in the Berlin Garden also was called Cereus undulatus by D. Dietrich ( 3: 104. 1843) and described, but should be referred elsewhere. It is of quite differentrelationship, being very slender, dull green, 10-ribbed. The flowers are large, cm. indiameter, white. Its native habitat is unknown. Illustrations: Cact. Journ. 1: 125; Cact. Mex. Bound, pi. 60, f. 5, 6, all these as Cereusvariabilis; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 13: 158; Rev. Hort. Beige 40: after p. 184; TribuneHort. 4: pi- i4°> as Cereus baxaniensis. Plate xvi, figure 1, shows a flower and part of a joint of a plant sent from the BerlinBotanic Garden to the New York Botanical Garden. Figure 182 is from a photograph BRITTON AND ROSE. VOL. II /. M. E. Eaton del 1. Top of flowering branch of Acanthocereus pentagonus. 2. ? Top of flowering branch of Acanthocereus subinermis. 3. Top of a fruiting branch of Acanthocereus subinermis. (All natural size.) ACANTHOCEREUS. 125 taken by Marshall A. Howe on Boot Key, Florida, in 1909; figure [83 shows the fruit andwithering perianth of a specimen collected by Dr. Rose at Laredo, Texas, in 1906; figure1S4 is from a photograph by J. K. Small of a plant in the cactus plantation of CharlesDeering, Buena Vista, Miami, Florida, May 1918, originally brought from Sands Key in1917. 4. Acanthocereus subinermis sp. now Plants 1 meter high or higher; joints stout, 5 to 7 cm. broad, strongly 3 or 4-angled, brightgreen, somewhat shining, usually short; areoles 3 to 4 cm. apart; spines cither wanting or short, whenpresent 6 to 10 at an areole, acicular, usually less than cm. long; flowers various in size, 15 to 22cm. lo
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