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Identifier: cactaceaedescri02brit (find matches)
Title: The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 Rose, J. N. (Joseph Nelson), 1862-1928
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Publisher: Washington : Carnegie Institution of Washington
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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fruit. Illustration: Karsten and Schenck, Vegetationsbilder 2: pi. 5, as Cereus megalanthus. Figure 292 is a reproduction of the illustration above cited. 5. DEAMIA gen. nov. An elongated cactus, clambering over or pendent from rocks or climbing and growing on barkof living trees, the joints usually broadly 3-winged, but sometimes 5 to 8-ribbed or winged, clingingby aerial roots; spines of the areoles numerous, acicular, or in juvenile forms bristly; flowers diurnal,very large, the tube slender, elongated; throat funnelform; inner perianth-segments yellowish white;stamens numerous, slender, attached all over the throat; style rather slender; scales on ovary andtube very small, bearing 3 to 5 long brown bristles in their axils; stigma-lobes linear, entire; fruitnot known. A monotypic genus of Mexico, Central America, and Colombia, dedicated to CharlesC. Deam, a diligent botanical collector, who sent the plant to us from Guatemala. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II PLATE XXXVII M. E. Eaton dol
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Flower of Mediocactm cocrimeus. X 0.7. !>!•:.\MI A. 2 13 1. Deamia testudo (Karwinsky). Cereus testudo Karwinsky in Zuccarini, Abh. Bayer, Akad. Wiss. Munchcn 2: 682. 1837. Cereus pterogonus Lemaiie, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 59. 1839. Cereus penlapterus Otto in Sahn-Dyek, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 221. 1850. Cereus miravullensis Weber, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 8: 459. 1902. Selenicereus miravallensis Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12:431. 1909. Stems and joints various, 3 to 10 cm. broad, or perhaps even more; ribs thin, wing-like, 1 to3 em. high; areoles 1 to 2 em. apart or on juvenile growth milch closer together; spines spreading,10 or more, 1 to 2 em. long, brownish; flowers 28 cm. long, with a long slender tube 10 cm. long ex-panding into a broad throat nearly as long as the tube; inner perianth-segments linear-oblong,acuminate, 8 to 10 cm. long; stamens numerous; style slender, long, 24 to 25 cm. long; stigma-lobeslinear, numerous; scales on ovary 1 mm. long or less;

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