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Flum. 5: pi. 27, as Cactus rosa. Amer. Garden 11: 462; 





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309; Diet. Hort. Bois f. 678; Edwards's Bot. Mag. 17: pi. 1473; Engler and Prantl, 



3^^: f. 71; Gard. Chron. Ill 20: f. 75; Karsten, Deutsch. Fl. 887. f. 9; 



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on St. Christopher in 1901. Figure 16 is 

 near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 



15. Pereskia zinniaeflora De CandoUe, Prod 



Shrub; leaves oval to oblong, 2 to 4 cm. long, acuminate, cuneate at base; spines on young 

 branches I or 2 at an areole, on old branches 4 or 5, all short, less than i cm. long; flowers broad, 

 5 cm. wide, rose-red; petals entire, obtuse or retuse; style and stamens very short; ovary truncate, 

 bearing small, stalked leaves. j > j 



Type locality: In Mexico. 

 Distribution: Mexico. 



Nicholson associates this species with Pereskia bleo, that is, P. graudijolia, but the 

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