The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . atsschr. Kakteenk. 19: 150. bluish, climbing, elongate, epiphytic; ribs 3 or 4, with horny margins only slightlyundulate; areoles small; spines 3 to 6, short; flowers large, 25 cm. long and nearly as broad whenfully expanded; outer perianth-segments narrow, purplish; middle perianth-segments golden; innerperianth-segments broad, white except at the golden tips. Type locality: Near Tuxpan, : Lowdands of western Mexico. We have grown this plant but have not seen the flowers, our descript


The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . atsschr. Kakteenk. 19: 150. bluish, climbing, elongate, epiphytic; ribs 3 or 4, with horny margins only slightlyundulate; areoles small; spines 3 to 6, short; flowers large, 25 cm. long and nearly as broad whenfully expanded; outer perianth-segments narrow, purplish; middle perianth-segments golden; innerperianth-segments broad, white except at the golden tips. Type locality: Near Tuxpan, : Lowdands of western Mexico. We have grown this plant but have not seen the flowers, our description of them beingfounded on that of Mr. Weingart. Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 22: 26, 27, both as Cerens purpusii. 3. Hylocereus ocamponis (.Salm-Dyck) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Xat. Herb. 12: 429. 1909. Cereus ocamponis Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 220. strongly 3-angled, at first bright green, soon glaucous, dull bluish green in age; ribs ratherdeeply undulate, their margins with a horny, brown border; areoles 2 to 4 cm. apart, borne near the. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II


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