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Type locality: Tunari Mountains,* Bolivia, at 1,400 meters altitud 



Distribution: Bolivia, known only from the type locality. 



This species is said to flower in May. 



The description has been drawn from a cotype in the herbarium 



mical Garden, and from Professor Schumann's original account o 





the New York 



Gesamtbeschreibung der Kakteen, p. 76: 

 botanical exploration of Bohvia in 1892. 



Kuntze obtamed the specimens 



The species was named 



plant. 



Schumann in Dr. Kuntze's Revisio Genera Plantarum 

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Plant very 

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Fig. lo.-^Pereskia guamacho, Xo.8. 



Weber, Diet. Hort. Bois 938. 1898. 



usually a small shrub i to 3 meters high, but often a tree 10 meters high 



arcoles rather prominent, especially in age often standing out like small knobs on the branches, filled 

 with brown felt, at first usually with only i to 4 spines along with a few short accessory ones, but in 

 age often with 20 spines or more; spines somewhat divaricate, rigid, brown, the longer ones often 

 4 cm. long; leaves on young branches solitary, but on old wood growing in fascicles, acute, lanceolate 

 to ovate or obovate w4th cuneate bases, usually about 3 cm. long, but sometimes 5 to 9 cm. long by 



hairy 



solitary, but so thickly set along the branches as 



ovary 



naked, said to be orange-colored and edible; seeds black, flattened, 4 mm, broad. 



Typ 



mainland and on Margarit 



common 



mountains 



supposed to have medicinal 



It is also widely grown in and about yards, for the leaves are 



forms 



*Tunari Mountains, just northwest of Cochabamba. Bolivia, about at the site of Sacaba 



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