PERESKIA. 



II 



sometimes grown as a climber 



pyramid. It is especially distinguished by the rich coloration of the leaves, which are 



mottled or blotched above with crimson 



uniform nurolish crimson 



We have seen this form 



green, but of a 



Garden, where it is grown only as a bush. 



m 



Hort 



Queensland 



23: pi. 1928; Curtis's Bot. Mag 

 Amer. pi. 26, in part; Safford, 



Schumann. Gesamtb. 



Kakteen f. 109, all as P. aculcata. 



Fig. 2. — Pereskia autumnalis. 



Descourtilz. Fl. Med. 



Flum 



# 



this volume is a 

 from M. Simon 



same 



from 



Paul G. Russell at La Plata, Argentina, in September 1915, shows the plant used as a hedge. 



Series 2. GRANDIFOLIAE. 



In this series we include 18 species, all tropical American, both continental and insular. 

 Schumann, regarding the series as a subgenus, applied to it the name Alio plocar pus. 



autumnalis 



1909. 



Pereskiopsis autumnalis Eichlam, Monatsschr. Kaktccnk. 19: 22. 1909. 



trunk 



iree, o 10 9 meters nign, wun a large, luuiiu, iiiu^^ii uia.ii^iiK.^ ti^^, cn^ uiunx.. la.^ncinj v^iy latuniLc 

 and 40 cm. or more in diameter, often covered with a formidable array of spines; young branches 



