The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . yellow, minute. Salm-Dyck was uncertain whether it was a garden variety or adistinct species. Coats anizogonus Salm-Dyek (Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 52. 1850) was given as asynonym of Corns triangularis. Miller, who first published (ereus compressus distinguished it from C. triangularis,but based it upon Plukenets illustration (Opera Bot. 1: pi. 29, f. 3), which Linnaeus referredto Cactus triangularis, and which we believe represents the Jamaican plant. Martynin a later edition of Millers Gardeners Dictionary refers M
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . yellow, minute. Salm-Dyck was uncertain whether it was a garden variety or adistinct species. Coats anizogonus Salm-Dyek (Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 52. 1850) was given as asynonym of Corns triangularis. Miller, who first published (ereus compressus distinguished it from C. triangularis,but based it upon Plukenets illustration (Opera Bot. 1: pi. 29, f. 3), which Linnaeus referredto Cactus triangularis, and which we believe represents the Jamaican plant. Martynin a later edition of Millers Gardeners Dictionary refers Millers C ereus compressus toCactus pentagonus (?), which seems hardly correct. The Index Kewensis refers Cereuscompressus to Mexico. Cephalocereus compressus (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. Index, vol. 1 to20. 36. 1912) belongs here. Illustrations: Plukenet, Opera Bot. 1: pi. 29, f. 3, as Cereus erectus cristatus; Bradley,Hist. Succ. PI. ed. 2. pi. 3, as Cereus americanus triangularis etc. Figure 269 shows a joint of a plant collected by Dr. Britton near Mandeville, Jamaica,in Fig. 269.—Joint of Hylocereus triangularis. 16. Hylocereus antiguensis sp. nov. Stems high-clambering, forming great masses in the crotches of high trees or covering thetops of low trees; joints 2 to 4 cm. thick, 3-angled, rarely 4-angled; margins of ribs not horny, hardlyundulate; areoles to cm. apart; principal spines 2 to 4, about 6 mm. long or less, accessoryones or bristles 2 to 5; flowers 14 cm. long; outer perianth-segments linear; inner perianth-segmentsyellow, at least drying so, broader than the outer segments; flower-tube bearing linear acute scales. This species is nearest H. trigonus, but the margins of the ribs are very different. Thedescription is based on specimens collected by Dr. Rose in Antigua (No. 3297), of whichwe have both living and herbarium specimens. It flowered in the New York BotanicalGarden in 1916. Figure 270 is from a photograph taken by Paul G. Russell on Ant
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