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CACTUS* (Epiphyllum) Ackermanm. 



Ackermann's Mexican Cactus 



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ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNJA. 



Nat. ord. Cacteje. 



CACT US. 



fol 



ermann 



Corollce tubus longissimus, me- 



diocris, v. brevissimus, sparsim et remote squamulosus, inermis 

 crenis ramulorum ortus, inter perpusillas et innocuas spmulas ; 

 linibus (coroliae fugacis) alt^ multifidus, vel quasi polypetaloideus, 

 rosaceus, aut subinde plus minus elegantissim^ ringens. buN 



r..„.!_ __ A • T-j.„ •„ ^»^„^ci »^nnilt>e enif iiir. ncandentes ; in 



frutices Americce calidioris ramosi, graciles, sed vvc. scandentes; in 

 scopulos rupesve, vel super arborum truncos; ramulis alatim com- 

 ^ pressissimis, tenuibus sed carnosulis, lobato-crenatis, viridibus, 

 l(Bvibus, axi centrali gracili ligneo. 



speciosi, albi rosei coccineive, rarius suaveolentes. 

 Mag. Aug. 1829. 



Flores solitarii, scepius magni 



— Haworth in Phil. 



C. (Epiphyllum) Ackermanni ; corolla maximS obsoletissimfe ringente ante 

 flnrp«.int;o«; acc„r«-.r,tP ftnlre acuto: qu^m tubus fer6 quadruple 



florescentiam assiirgente, apice acuto; qu&^m 



longiore. Haworth I. c. , 



Facies C. phyllanthoidis, at ramorum lobi pauciores, obtus< 

 iculiformes; et in eorum axillis spinulce ordinance forte mag 

 res solitarii, sed numerosi, et affinium more directione feri 



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lUDocMw germine plusquam unciali, soraiae vinai, ^>. V7"'.7--"i"-^ , 

 ^ decursione squamularum vaucarum sen remotanm et calycinarum. reiaid 

 imhricata, acuminata, nitentia, inferiora longd minora, canahculatim cart- 

 nata, apice recurvula ; summa quasi biserialia, semi-cxpansa, lanceolata, 

 coccinea; horum ccBlum versus oblonga et lanceolata C(Btera terram spec- 

 *„„..-. .1, . .. /-..„:*.,i:„ „/ ,•« n/n»ihng. corolld hreviora, 



tantia oblonga et angustiora. 



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declinata 



sligmatibus circiter septem. — Haworth 1. c. 



Theophrastus has a x-W.j, >vhich is the modern C'yna^a Ca^";<T,";: 

 ardoon or Chardon, the petioles of which are used as a ^ehcate vegetable 

 It had no othfir rP^mhUnrP. to the modem Cactus than in being pnck y. 



Card 



Kpiphyllum, which signifies " upon a leaf," is a name given long since undc^ 

 the idea th^t the stems of theE plants were leaves, and that consequently 

 ♦he flowers grew upon 1 



caves. 



