PERI^SKIA. 



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21 



De Candolle's plate 'cited below, and may 

 we are aware, has not been again collected. 



This species, so far as 



^flora Mociiio 



synonym 



Illustrations: Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. f. 135; 



7 ; Rumpler, Sukkulenten f. i27;Suppl. Diet. Gard 



Figure 17 is a copy of the second illustration above cited. 



Mem. Mus. Hist 



Paris 17: 



Fig. 16. 



Pereskia grandifolia. Exposed branches are 

 shown above the other foliage. 



Fig. 17. — Pereskia zinniaeflora 



^ 16. Pereskia horrida (HBK.) De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 475. 1828. 



Cactus horridus Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6: 70. 1823. 



Tree, 4 to 6 meters high, with terete slender branches; spines often soHtary, sometimes 2 or 

 3» slender, dark in color, unequal, the longest 2 to 3 cm. long; leaves soUtary, alternate, 

 narrowly oblong, 3 cm. long, subsessile, entire, glabrous; flowers 3 to 5 together in upper axils, 

 about ID mm. long; calyx described as 5-toothed and persistent; petals 5 or 6, red, lanceolate, 

 spreading; fruit fleshy, many-seeded. 



Typ 



a 



this locality is in Peru.) 



flumen Maranon prov. Jaen de Bracamoros." (Schumann says 



Dist 



Northwestern South America. 



from 



made by Dr. Rose upon the type material in the herbarium of the Museum 

 History at Paris, in which there are specimens from both Bonpland and Kuntl 

 these sheets lack flowers and fruit, and only Kunth's bears leaves. So far as we are aware 



Both of 



