96 



THE CACTACEAE. 



This plant is called cardon and candebobe. 



Ccreus bclieuli and C. pugionifer are two garden names referred here by Schumann 

 (Gesamtb. Kakteen 107. 1897). 



Illustrations: Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10: pi. 21; MacDougal-, Bot. N. Amer. Des. 

 pi. 21 ; Nat. Geogr. Mag. 21 : 705 ; Journ. Intern. Gard. Club 3 : 16; U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PI. 

 Ind. Bull. 262: pl. II, all as Cereus weheri; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 37; Schumann, 

 Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 24; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 29: 352. f. 7; 353. f. 8, as Cereus 

 candelabrum; Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. I2:pl. 71. 



Figure 139 is from a photograph taken by Dr. Rose at Tomellin, Mexico, in 1905; 

 figure 140 shows clusters of spines and figure 141 a fruit collected by H. H. Rusby at 

 Cuicatlan, Oaxaca, in 19 10. 



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Fig. 139. — Lemaireocereus weberi. 





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queretaroensis (W 



Cereus queretaroensis V^thev in Maihsson. Monatsschr Kakteenk 1-27 tSqt 

 Pachycereus queretaroensis Britton and Rose. Contr. V. I Nat Herb la : J^ 1909. 



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or less; fruit spiny, edible. 



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Type locality: Queretaro, Mexico 

 Distribution: Central Mexico. 



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thurberi 



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Queretaro, Mexico 



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