The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . tubeshort, about 2 cm. long; perianth-segments all similar, reddish purple, linear, about 7 cm. long;stamens short, exserted; style white, thick, much exserted; stigma-lobes white, when closed form-ing an ovoid acuminate cluster; scales on ovary and flower-tube orbicular or the upper ones narrowlyovate, green, with purple margins. Type locality: Vallee de Tuis, Costa Rica. Distribution: Costa Rica, Central America. This species is common in Costa Rica, and in recent years has been widely distributedby several Costa
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . tubeshort, about 2 cm. long; perianth-segments all similar, reddish purple, linear, about 7 cm. long;stamens short, exserted; style white, thick, much exserted; stigma-lobes white, when closed form-ing an ovoid acuminate cluster; scales on ovary and flower-tube orbicular or the upper ones narrowlyovate, green, with purple margins. Type locality: Vallee de Tuis, Costa Rica. Distribution: Costa Rica, Central America. This species is common in Costa Rica, and in recent years has been widely distributedby several Costa Rican collectors; it grows well under glass, and flowers frequently. It isthe only Hylocereus in cultivation with red flowers except H. extensus. Plate xxvn, figure 3, is from a plant obtained by Mr. William R. Maxon in San Jose,Costa Rica, in 1906, which flowered at the New York Botanical Garden. Figure 267 isfrom a photograph of a specimen which flowered in Washington from specimens receivedfrom the New York Botanical Garden in 1910 (No. 22197). 8RITT0N AND ROSE, VOL. II. M. E. Eaton del. Flower near end of branch of Hylocereus undatus. X II\ K)l 12. Hylocereus extensus (Salm-Dyck). Ceretts extensus Salm-Dyck in Dc Candolle, Prodr, 3: 469. and probably often climbing, bearing the usual aerial roots of the genus; joints green,rather slender, cm. in diameter, 3-sided, the obtuse angles not at all winged; areoles remote,small, woolly and often setose; spines 2 or 3, rarely 4, very short and stout, dark brown, 1 to 2 ; ilowers large and handsome; tube green, eylindric; seales of the ovary ovate; scales of the tuberather short, becoming elongated above and passing into the narrow outer perianth segments,greenish yellow, tipped and margined with red; inner perianth-segments oblong to obovatc, acute,rose-red; style thick, longer than the stamens; stigma-lobes linear, entire; fruit not known. Type locality: Not cited. Distribution: Trinidad
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