The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . figure 207 the fruit of the plant photographed. 15. Trichocereus huascha (Weber). Cereus huascha Weber, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 151. 1893. Cereus huascha flaviflorus Weber, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 151. 1893. More or less cespitose, forming clumps 8 to 20 dm. broad; stems 8 to 16 dm. high, cylindric,4 to 5 cm. in diameter; ribs 12 to 18, low, rounded; areoles approximate, often only 5 to 7 ; spines numerous, acicular, unequal, the longest often 5 to 6 cm. long, yellowish to brown;flowers very variable in c
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . figure 207 the fruit of the plant photographed. 15. Trichocereus huascha (Weber). Cereus huascha Weber, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 151. 1893. Cereus huascha flaviflorus Weber, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 151. 1893. More or less cespitose, forming clumps 8 to 20 dm. broad; stems 8 to 16 dm. high, cylindric,4 to 5 cm. in diameter; ribs 12 to 18, low, rounded; areoles approximate, often only 5 to 7 ; spines numerous, acicular, unequal, the longest often 5 to 6 cm. long, yellowish to brown;flowers very variable in color and size, red to yellow, 7 to 10 cm. long, broadly funnelform; scaleson the ovary bearing long brown hairs. Type locality: Yacutala, Catamarca, Argentina. Distribution: Northern Argentina. Cereus huascha flaviformis Weber (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3 : 136. 1893) is only a name. Figure 208 shows a flower and figure 209 a fruit collected by Dr. Shafer near Andal-gala, Argentina, in 1916; figure 210 is from a photograph of the plant from which the flowersand fruit were Fig. 210.—Trichocereus huascha. 16. Trichocereus candicans (Gillies). Cereus candicans Gillies in Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 335. candicans tenuispinus Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 91. gladiatus Lemaire, Cact. Aliq. Nov. 28. candicans robustior Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 43. candicans Riimpler in Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 832. gladiatus Riimpler in Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 833. candicans Weber, Diet. Hort. Bois 471. 1896, as candicans courantii Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 70. candicans gladiatus Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 70. 1897. Cespitose, forming large clumps often 1 to 3 meters in diameter; joints erect or spreading, 6dm. long or less, 14 cm. in diameter or less, rounded at apex; ribs 9 to n, low, rounded or obtuse;areoles large, white-felted when young, 2 to 3 cm. apart; spines subu
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