. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. LEMAIREOCEREUS. 95 This species is common on all the hills about La Guayra, is less common in the moun- tains toward Caracas, and is also to be found along the coast at Puerto Cabello. About towns it is much used as a hedge plant. Figure 138 is from a photograph taken by Mrs. J. N. Rose near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, in FIG. 137.—Lemaireocereus treleasei. 14. Lemaireocereus weberi (Coulter) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 426. 1909. Cereus weberi Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 410. 1896. Cereus candelabrum Weber in Sc
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. LEMAIREOCEREUS. 95 This species is common on all the hills about La Guayra, is less common in the moun- tains toward Caracas, and is also to be found along the coast at Puerto Cabello. About towns it is much used as a hedge plant. Figure 138 is from a photograph taken by Mrs. J. N. Rose near Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, in FIG. 137.—Lemaireocereus treleasei. 14. Lemaireocereus weberi (Coulter) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 426. 1909. Cereus weberi Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 410. 1896. Cereus candelabrum Weber in Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 106. 1897- Plant very large, 10 meters high or more, with a trunk short but thick and often with hundreds of nearly erect branches arising from near the base, dark bluish green, slightly glaucous; ribs usually 10, rounded; areoles large; radial spines usually 6 to 12, spreading, more or less acicular, i to 2 cm. long; central spine usually up to 10 cm. long, solitary, flattened, often more or less deflexed, except those of the upper areoles, at first brown to blackish, much longer than the laterals; areoles white- felted; flowers 8 to 10 cm. long; scales on flower-tube narrow, thin, bearing long brown hairs in their axils; inner perianth-segments oblong, 2 cm. long; ovary globular, covered by the dense brown felt of its areoles; fruit oblong, edible, 6 to 7 cm. long, very spiny, the spine-clusters deciduous in ripening. Type locality: A few miles south of Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico. Distribution: Puebla and Oaxaca, 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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