The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 292.—Mediocactus megalanthus. Fig. 293.—Deamia testudo. Illustrations: Bliihende Kakteen 3: pi. 150; Curtiss Bot. Mag. 89: pi. 5360, both asCereus pterogonus. Figure 293 is from a photograph taken by E. A. Goldman near Carrizal, Vera Cruz,Mexico, in 1901; figure 294 shows branches from a plant sent from Costa Rica in 1911. 214 THE Fig. 294.—Branches of Deamia testudo. 6. WEBEROCEREUS Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 431. 1909. Epiphytic cacti, with slender, climbing or hanging s
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 292.—Mediocactus megalanthus. Fig. 293.—Deamia testudo. Illustrations: Bliihende Kakteen 3: pi. 150; Curtiss Bot. Mag. 89: pi. 5360, both asCereus pterogonus. Figure 293 is from a photograph taken by E. A. Goldman near Carrizal, Vera Cruz,Mexico, in 1901; figure 294 shows branches from a plant sent from Costa Rica in 1911. 214 THE Fig. 294.—Branches of Deamia testudo. 6. WEBEROCEREUS Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 431. 1909. Epiphytic cacti, with slender, climbing or hanging stems and branches, these terete, angled orrarely flattened, emitting aerial roots, the areoles bearing a tuft of felt and sometimes several weakacicular bristles or spines; flowers pink, rose-colored or white, nocturnal, short-funnelform or funnel-form-campanulate; ovary tuberculate, its areoles bearing weak filiform bristles or stiff hairs, thelower part of the flower-tube with a few similar areoles, the upper part with a few foliaceous scales;outer perianth-segments reflexed-spreading, blunt, linear-oblong, the inner ones narrower; ovaryhairy or bristly; areoles of the fruit hairy. Type species: Cereus tunilla Weber. Three species are here recognized, two from Costa Rica and one from Panama. Theyare all rather insignificant plants, growing in trees as does Rhipsalis; the seedlings andjuvenile growths are similar t
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