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THE CACTACEAE. 



Illustrations: 



Gaz. N. S. W. 25 : pl. opp. p. 138; Roig, Cact. Fl. Cub 



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1897. 



4, shows a flowering joint of a plant obtained from Mr. S. F 

 from a photograph taken by Dr. Juan T. Roig in the Havana 



Mr. J. F. Cowell at Panamai 



in 1905 



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karwinskiana 



1898, 



karwinskiana Salm 



1850. 



A tree, 2 meters high or more, with a definite jointed terete spiny trunk; joints oblong, 1.5 to 3 



green 



to 7 from an areole, porrect, i to 2 cm. long, pale yellow to nearly white; glochids yellow, numerous, 

 caducous; flowers red, 11 to 12 cm. long; ovary deeply umbilicate, 3 cm. long. 



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Type locality: In Mexico. 

 Distrihtition: Mexico.. 





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Figs. 47, 48. — Tacinga funalis. X0.6. 



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This species was sent from Mexico by Karwinsky, who supposed it was an Op 



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Edmund Kerber near Colima, Mexico, and flowered for the first time 



Salm-Dyck in 1850 it had not flowered. It was re-collected by 



from M. Simon 



from a plant now in the New York 



Paris, France! 



ginal 



stated that the young spines are 2 to 4 and rose-colored, but afterwards 1 8 .to 20, gray and 



deflexed. 0. no pa 



Karwinsky (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort 



68. 1850) was 



synonym 



Figure ,43 represents a joint with young fruit, from a plant sent bv M. Simon 



Paris, France, in looi. 



inaperta Schott in Griffiths, Monatsschr 



1913 



I^escribed as 5 to 7 meters high, but in cultivation much smaller, diffusely branched, often 



6 to 17 cm. long, strongly 



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tuberculate, bright green; spines usually 3 to 6 at areoles of young joints, more at old ones,' yellowish 



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