The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . 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». M E Eaton del. Top of flowering plant of Carnegiea gigantea.(Natural size ) BORZICACTXTS. 163 6. Borzicactus humboldtii (IIBK.). Cactus humboldtii Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. ct ,Sp. 6: 6
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . 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». M E Eaton del. Top of flowering plant of Carnegiea gigantea.(Natural size ) BORZICACTXTS. 163 6. Borzicactus humboldtii (IIBK.). Cactus humboldtii Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. ct ,Sp. 6: 66. 1823. Cereus humboldtii De Candolle, Prodr. 3:467. 1828. Cleistocactus humboldtii Weber in Gosselin, Bull. Mens. Soc. Nice 44: 33. 1904. Procumbent, cylindric; ribs 10 to 12, low, somewhat tuberculate; spines setose, rigid; flowersred, about 7 cm. long; flower-tube elongated; the scales bearing long greenish gray hairs; perianth-segments lanceolate, acute, red; filaments slender, glabrous; style much longer than the perianth. Type locality: Between Sondorillo and San Felipe, Peru. Distribution: Northern Peru and probably southern Ecuador. The type locality when this species was collected by Humboldt was located in Ecuador,but it is now in northern Peru. Dr. Rose while collecting in Ecuador in 1918 did not reach Peru, but he found insouthern Ecuador near Loja and again in the Catamayo V
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