The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . nts described as white, oblong to oblanceolate. Type locality: Rocky sandy bottoms, Mollendo, : On hills, southwestern Peru, and northwestern type of this species was first collected by Weberbauer in 1902 on the hills aboutMollendo, and here Dr. Rose collected living and herbarium specimens in 1914. Old flowersand fruits were obtained, but no flowers have appeared on the living specimens in theNew York Botanical Garden. Three collections made by Dr. Rose in southern Peru are referred here
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . nts described as white, oblong to oblanceolate. Type locality: Rocky sandy bottoms, Mollendo, : On hills, southwestern Peru, and northwestern type of this species was first collected by Weberbauer in 1902 on the hills aboutMollendo, and here Dr. Rose collected living and herbarium specimens in 1914. Old flowersand fruits were obtained, but no flowers have appeared on the living specimens in theNew York Botanical Garden. Three collections made by Dr. Rose in southern Peru are referred here is from near Arequipa, altitude about 7,000 feet, the second is from near Posco, altitudeabout 2,000 feet, and the third is from hills above Mollendo, altitude about 200 feet, asmentioned above. This is an unusually wide range for a species in this region. The plants themselves show consider-able variation, suggesting thatmore than one species is fresh flowers have been ob-tained it seems best to recognizeonly the one species. iiLh • wf^ Air. Fig. 232.—Borzicactus decumbe Fig. 233.—Flower of Borzi-cactus decumbens. Figure 232 is from a photograph taken by Dr. Rose near Arequipa, Peru, showing thisplant in the foreground at the base of a ledge; figure 233 shows a flower collected by JuanSohrens near Tacna, Chile. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II. ? I »vW t»
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