. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 78 THE CACTACEAE. Azua, Santo Domingo, and a little later received living specimens from Father M. Fuertes, of Barahona, Santo Domingo. Dr. Rose's material showed for the first time the peculiar root system of this species. With it also were old flowers and fruit,heretofore unknown. The species is rare about Azua, only two stations being found in the lower foothills north of the town (No. 3941). Dr. Paul Bartsch collected specimens in Haiti in 1917 (No. 221). Illustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 14: 155, as Cercus weingartianus. Figure 112 shows
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 78 THE CACTACEAE. Azua, Santo Domingo, and a little later received living specimens from Father M. Fuertes, of Barahona, Santo Domingo. Dr. Rose's material showed for the first time the peculiar root system of this species. With it also were old flowers and fruit,heretofore unknown. The species is rare about Azua, only two stations being found in the lower foothills north of the town (No. 3941). Dr. Paul Bartsch collected specimens in Haiti in 1917 (No. 221). Illustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 14: 155, as Cercus weingartianus. Figure 112 shows part of a branch of a plant collected by Dr. Rose at Azua, Santo Domingo, in 1913. 2. Leptocereus leonii Britton and Rose, Torreya 12: 15. 1912. Cereus leonii Vaupel, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 22: 66. 1912. Plant up to 5 meters high, repeatedly branching, the rounded trunk 3 cm. in diameter at the base, the cortex scaly-roughened; ultimate branches about cm. in diameter, slender, elongated, 6 to 8-ribbed; old areoles i to cm. apart in vertical rows, bearing acicular spines; ribs crenate, with the areoles borne at the depressions; spines 6 to 12 at an areole, long, yellowish when young, gray when old, 2 to 9 cm. long; flower cm. long, campanulate; inner perianth-segments pink, about 15, withering-persistent; tube of flower bearing scattered areoles each with i to 4 short spines or some of them spineless; fruit globose-ovoid, 2 cm. in diameter, with a few scattered spine-bearing areoles; seeds black. Type locality: Sierra de Anafe, near Guayabal, FIG. 113.—Leptocereus 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 Washington
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