. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 34 TI1K CACTACKAl'. linear, cream-colored, erect; stamens numerous, included; ovary naked or nearly so, oblong, olive-green; fruit crowned by Uie persisting style, salmon-colored, about 6 cm. long, when fully mature splitting from top to bottom, exposing the white juicy pulp. Type li'itility: La Guayra, Vcue/.ncla. I>ixt>il>itliini: Northern Vene/.ucla and Colombia. Collected by Dr. and Mrs. J. N. Rose in 1915, on the mountains between La Guayra and Caracas (No. 21828) and again near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela (No. 21859). This species
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. 34 TI1K CACTACKAl'. linear, cream-colored, erect; stamens numerous, included; ovary naked or nearly so, oblong, olive-green; fruit crowned by Uie persisting style, salmon-colored, about 6 cm. long, when fully mature splitting from top to bottom, exposing the white juicy pulp. Type li'itility: La Guayra, Vcue/.ncla. I>ixt>il>itliini: Northern Vene/.ucla and Colombia. Collected by Dr. and Mrs. J. N. Rose in 1915, on the mountains between La Guayra and Caracas (No. 21828) and again near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela (No. 21859). This species was also collected by William R. Maxon in April 1906, at Puerto Colombia, Colombia, and in June of the same year at the same place by H. Pittier, and by John G. Sinclair in 1914, at Santa Marta, Colombia. Mr. Maxon's plant was confused with Ccphalo- ccrcus coltuiibiainis. based on material collected by Mr. Pittier from the State of Cauca. Illustration: Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zcit. 25: 473. f. 5, No. 5, as Pilocereus russdianus. Figure 38 is from a photograph taken by Mrs. J. N. Rose above Caracas, Venezuela, in 1916; figure 39 is from a photograph of the top of a plant collected by J. G. Sinclair at Santa Marta; figure 36 shows the flower of the Caracas plant and figure 37 its 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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