LEMAIREOCEREUS. 



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this species open at about 7 o'clock in the evening in J 



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Fig. 126. — Lemaireocereus hystrix. 



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the ovary as is done in CereuSy except that the style comes off with the perianth. Numerous 



from 



flower-tube. 



The plant is called Spanish dildos in Jamaica. On hillsides at the United States Naval 

 Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this cactus occurs in great abundance, forming large 

 colonies, individual plants differing much in the length of their spines, which in some are all 

 less than i cm. long. 



Illustrations: Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 10: f. 20, 

 as Cereus hystrix; Gard. Chron. II. 10 : 185. f .37 ; Hol- 

 lers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 18:342, as Cereus swartzii. 



Figure 126 is from a photograph taken by Mar- 

 shall A. Howe near Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 

 1909; figure 127 shows a flower collected by WiUiam 

 Harris in Jamaica and figure 128 a fruit from 



same source. 



Here 



Med 



fimbriatus Lamarck. This plate 



seems to be based largely on Burmann's 

 plate of Plumier 195, f. 2. This latter 

 plate was made the type of Haworth's 



Cereus 



andisp 



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Hort 



(Phil. Mag. 7: 113 

 'ispinus Lemaire, Rev 



1862). 



Lemaireocereus griseus (Haworth) Britten and 

 Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12 : 425. 1909. 



Cereus griseus Haworth, Syn. PI. Succ. 182. 

 1812. 



Fig. 127. 

 Fig. 128. 



Flower of Lemaireocereus hysfrix 

 Fruit of same. 



X0.7. 



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6. 1822. 



Cereus eburneus polygonus Keiffer. Enutn. Cact. 91. 

 Cereus resupinatus Salm-Dyck, Allg. Gartenz. 8: 10 

 Cereus gladiger* Lemaire, Hort. Univ. 6: 60. 1845. 



85. 1837. 



1840. 



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*At place cited, by error spelled gladiiger, which some have cited as gladilger. thus making another error. 



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