. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. FIG. 115.—Leptocereus maxonii. Collected by Wm. R. Maxon at Berraco, 8 miles east of Daiquiri, Cuba, April 13, 1907 (No. 4023), and by Britton and Cowell at the same locality, March 1912 (No. 12657, type). This species differs from L. assurgcns in habit, in having more ribs, and in the flowers and young shoots being covered with yellow spines and bristles instead of dark brown ones. Figure 115 is from a photograph of a branch of the plant collected by Mr. Maxon as above cited. 6. Leptocereus arboreus Britton and Rose, Torreya 12: 15. 1912. Cere
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. FIG. 115.—Leptocereus maxonii. Collected by Wm. R. Maxon at Berraco, 8 miles east of Daiquiri, Cuba, April 13, 1907 (No. 4023), and by Britton and Cowell at the same locality, March 1912 (No. 12657, type). This species differs from L. assurgcns in habit, in having more ribs, and in the flowers and young shoots being covered with yellow spines and bristles instead of dark brown ones. Figure 115 is from a photograph of a branch of the plant collected by Mr. Maxon as above cited. 6. Leptocereus arboreus Britton and Rose, Torreya 12: 15. 1912. Cereus arboreus Vaupel, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 22: 65. 1912. Plants up to 6 meters high, erect, much branched; joints 3 to 10 dm. long, 5 to 6 cm. in diameter, narrowed at base; ribs 4, narrow, thin, to 2 cm. deep, somewhat depressed between the areoles; areoles to 4 cm. apart or less; spines 10 or fewer, acicular, yellowish, becoming gray, radiating, the longer up to 5 cm. long; flower short, campanulate, 2 to 3 cm. long; inner perianth-segments short, spreading, greenish white to cream-colored; ovarv and flower-tube very spiny; fruit ellipsoid, 8 to 10 cm. long, 5 to 6 cm. in diameter, its areoles bearing tufts of nu- merous light-yellow spines. Type locality: Punta Sabanilla, Santa Clara, Cuba. Distribution: Near southern coast of the Province of Santa Clara, Cuba. Plate xni, figure i, shows the plant collected by Britton, Cowell, and Earle at Cas- tillo dc Jagua, Cuba, in 1911, which flowered in the New York Botanical Garden in 1913. Figure 116 shows a fruit of the type FIG. 116.—Fruit of Leptocereus arboreus. FIG. 117.—Fruit of Leptocereus sylyestris. 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 W
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