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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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n in Bahia, Brazil, either growing as a low bush inthe open or clambering through bushes (No. 19730). Illustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 18: 67, as Cereus adscendens. Figure 226 is from a photograph taken by Paul G. Russell at Barrinha, Bahia, in 1915. 15. Harrisia platygona (Otto). Cereus platygonus Otto in Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 199. 1850.Eriocereus platygonus Riccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. Palermo 8: 242. 1909. At first erect, but soon spreading; branches slender, 2 cm. in diameter or more, nearly terete,the 6 to 8 ribs flat or hardly elevated, separated only by shallow, narrow depressions, pale green orsomewhat bronzed; spines 12 to 15, setaceous, very short, the longest only 12 mm. long; flowers12 cm. broad; flower-tube 10 cm. long, bearing scales; ovary tuberculate, bearing scales, thesewoolly in their axils; stigma-lobes 14, linear. Type locality: Not cited. Distribution: Not known, probably South America. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II 4 M. E. Eaton del. < . - , <
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1. Flowering branch of Harrisia iortuosa. 2. Fruiting branch of Harrisia tortuosa. (Natural size.) HARRISIA. 157 This species has only once been reported as flowering, and then by Riccobono; ourdescription of the flowers is based on his. We have studied a small plant in the collectionof the New York Botanical Garden. Illustration: Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 19, as Cereus platygonus. 16. Harrisia bonplandii (Parmentier). Circus bonplandii Parmentier in Pfeiffer, Knum. Cact. 108. 1837.Cereus baiansaei Schumann in Martins, Fl. Bras. 42: 210. 1890.Eriocercus bonplandii Riccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. Palermo 8: 238. 1909. Stems slender and weak, at first erect, up. to 3 meters high or more, sometimes procumbent,arching or clambering, 3 to 8 em. in diameter, strongly 4-angled; areoles 2 cm. apart; spines 6 to 8,acicular, the longest 4 cm. long, when young red, in age gray; flowers 15 to 22 cm. long, white, closingsoon after sunrise; filaments numerous, borne almost to the base of the tube

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