. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . uz. Another speciesgrowing at Salinas Bay,on the west coast of CostaRica, Pereskia hjclinidifora^ attains the size of a small tree, and hasyellowish-red flowers with petals fringed along the margin as in thegenus Lychnis. Other arboreous species occur in tropical of them, with long slender spines and the habit of an Osage orange, was observedby the writer in 189Ggrowing in hedges atPunta Arenas, CostaRica, where it wascalled puipute, or ma-teare. It has since beendescribed by Weber asPereskia nicoyana. As-soci
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . uz. Another speciesgrowing at Salinas Bay,on the west coast of CostaRica, Pereskia hjclinidifora^ attains the size of a small tree, and hasyellowish-red flowers with petals fringed along the margin as in thegenus Lychnis. Other arboreous species occur in tropical of them, with long slender spines and the habit of an Osage orange, was observedby the writer in 189Ggrowing in hedges atPunta Arenas, CostaRica, where it wascalled puipute, or ma-teare. It has since beendescribed by Weber asPereskia nicoyana. As-sociated with it was acolumnar organo {Ce-reus aragoni Weber)with edible fruit locallyknown as tunas deorgano. Pereskia au-tumnalis (plate 10, ), called manzanote inGuatemala, was col-lected by O. F. Cook, ofthe United States Department of Agriculture, in 1902, at El Rancho,near Zacapa, Guatemala. Excellent photographs of this speciesby Guy N. Collins have recently been published by Rose, in Contri-butions from the National Herbarium, volume 12, pages 399, plates 52,. Fig. 11.—Pereskia lycbnidiflora. 546 ANNUAL REPORT SjMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION^ 1908. 53, 54, 1909. According to Professor Pittier the fruit is eaten bycattle during the dry season. The lens-shaped seeds have a glossytesta, which serves to distinguish this genus from the somewhat simi-lar Pereskio]3sis, in which the seeds are covered with matted hairs. II. SUBFAMILY OPUNTIOIDE^. This subfamily is distinguished by the leaf-like cotyledons of itsseeds; its fleshy leaves, either broad and lasting, as in Pereskiopsis (, fig. 2), or small, terete, and caducous, as in Opuntia and Nopalea;and by the barbed bristles, or glochidia, borne on the areoles, usuallysmall and very numerous and mixed with soft wool. These glochidiaare extremely sharp and barbed. They are loosely attached at theirinsertion, so that they are loosened by the slightest touch and adheremost annoyingly to the skin or clothing. In this subfamily th
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