The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . e the branches are planted close together in rows. According to Captain Eens, poor people of Curacaouse the fleshy branches as a vegetable. Mr. Harold states that in the region of Coro, Venezuela, thenatives use the wood in making the roofs and walls oftheir houses. The heart wood is split into two piecesand then tied to the rafters so as to form the supportfor the mortar and tiles. The wood is rich in potash,and the ash from it is shipped in large quantities to theUnited States for use as a fertilizer. Illu
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . e the branches are planted close together in rows. According to Captain Eens, poor people of Curacaouse the fleshy branches as a vegetable. Mr. Harold states that in the region of Coro, Venezuela, thenatives use the wood in making the roofs and walls oftheir houses. The heart wood is split into two piecesand then tied to the rafters so as to form the supportfor the mortar and tiles. The wood is rich in potash,and the ash from it is shipped in large quantities to theUnited States for use as a fertilizer. Illustration: Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: pi. 67. Plate xiii, figure 2, shows the top of a plant collected on Curacao. Figure 129 is froma photograph taken by Mrs. J. N. Rose on the same island in 1916. 4. Lemaireocereus pruinosus (Otto). Echinocactus pruinosus Otto in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 54. pruinosus Monville in Steudel, Nom. ed. 2. 1: pruinosus Otto in Forster, Handb. Cact. 398. laevigatas Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 204. Fig. 129.—Lemaireocereus griseus. Plant usually tall, with a more or less definite tfunk; ribs 5 or 6, very high, separated by broadintervals; spines few, the radial ones 5 to 7, brownish; central spine solitary, 3 cm. long; floweringareoles large, brown-felted; flowers about 9 cm. long; upper scales and outer perianth-segments rcm. long or less, rounded at apex; inner perianth-segments longer and thinner than the outer ones,ovary with numerous browri-felted areoles; fruit ovoid, spiny, 6 to 7 cm. long. Type locality: : South-central Mexico. lemaireocereus. 89 This plant is certainly native in south-central Mexico, anddistinguishable from the related cultivated /.. griseus by fewerribs, larger flowers, and ovoid fruit. Cereus roridus (Pfeiffer, Kmnn. Cact. 54. 1837) was givenas a synonym of Echinocactus pruinosus. Cereus edulis Weber (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 10:55. 1900)is another name f
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