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THE CACTACEAE. 



Plant 8 meters high or less, sometimes branching at the base, sometimes with a definite trunk 

 up to 3.5 dm. in diameter, smooth when old; branches 8 to lo-ribbed, more or less glaucous; spines 

 acicular, gray, the longer ones 4 cm. long; flower-bud obtuse or rounded at apex, covered with 

 overlapping scales, these obtuse and brown; flowers pinkish, 7 cm. long; inner perianth-segments 

 white; style exserted before the flower opens; fruit subglobose, about 5 cm. in diameter, spiny, 

 edible, the pulp red. 



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, Type locality: South America, but no definite locality cited. 



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Distribution: Northern coast of Venezuela and adjacent islands; Curasao; Aruba; 

 Bonaire; Margarita; Patos Island, Trinidad; and now cultivated in many parts of tropical 



America for its delicious fruits. 



polygon 



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synonym 



sometimes 



sometimes referred to Cels and sometimes to Lemaire 



come oririnallv from Colombia 



churncus monstrosus Salm- 



Ccrcus enriqiiezii (M 

 1909) was sent to Eurot 



many others, abnormal forms occur, among 



Senor Murrilo 



It 



be C. ehurneiis monstrosus. 



atsschr. Kakteenk. 19:92. 

 from Jalapa, Mexico, by 

 dered by W. Weingart to 



1828). 



common 



cultivated species of Mexico seenis 

 to belong here. 



' According to Boldingh, this cactus is known in 

 the Dutch West Indies as daatoe, kadoesji, and jaatoe. 

 It is widely grown on Curasao Island as a hedge plant, 

 where the branches are planted close together in rows. 



According to Captain I,ens, poor people of Curagao 

 use the fleshy branches as a vegetable. Mr. Harold G. 

 Foss states that in \he region of Coro, Venezuela, the 

 natives use the wood in making the roofs and walls of 

 their houses. The heart wood is spHt into two pieces 



form 



mortar 



wood 



from 



potash, 



United States for use as a fertilizer. 



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Fig. 129. — Lemaireocercus griseus. 



Plate XIII, figure 2, shows the top of a plant collected on Curasao. Figure 129 is from 

 otograph taken by Mrs. J. N. Rose on the same island in 1016. 



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4. JLemaireocereus pruinosus (Otto). 



Echinocadus prui'twsus Otto in VMfier, Jinum. Cact 54. 18^7 



Cac/M.9 />rMmo5ttv MonvilleinSteudel, Norn. ed. 2. i: 246 1840 - -. 



Cereus pruinosus Otto in Forster, Handb. Cact. 398 1846 



Cereus laevigatns vSalm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 204/ 1850. 



i-nf^r^i^^" •"''"^' tall With a more or less definite trunk; ribs 5 or 6. very high, separated by broad 

 IrllL 1 ' P'"f f^^'/^,^^^^^al 0"^s 5 to 7, brownish; central spine solitary, 3 cm. long; flowering 

 P^ ntl^'n^^'l ^'•^^'"-f^lted; flowers about 9 cm. long; upper scales and outer perianth-segments i 



nv.'rlwi?^ ' '°"" t! apex, inner perianth-segments longer and thiimer than the outer ones- 

 ovary with numerous brown-felted areoles; fruit ovoid, spiny, 6 to 7 cm. loner. 



Type locality: Mexico. 



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Distribution: South-central Mexico. 



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