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7 $*7."^ emoryi Engelmann, Amer. Journ. Sci. II. 14: 338. 1852. 

 Echtnocereus emoryi Riinipler in Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 804. 



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Branches 2 to 6 dm. long, 3 to 6 cm. In diameter, entirely covered with the dense spiny 

 ment; ribs 20 to 25 very low, only a few millimeters high, somewhat tuberculate; spines 10 

 yellow to yellowish brown, acicular, i to 4 cm. long; flowers about 2 cm. long and about as oroaa 

 when expanded; outer perianth-segments obovate. obtuse; inner perianth-segments oblong, about 



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 broad 



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Type locality: " 

 California and Lower 



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Distribution: Near the coast of southwestern 

 California and northwestern Lower CaHfornia and 



adjacent islands. 



Engelmann, Cact. Mex 



60, f, I to 4, as Ccrcus emoryi. 



Figure 158 is from a photograph taken by E. 

 O. Wooton on San Clemente Island, California, in 

 1912; figure 159 shows a dried flower collected by 



Le Roy Abrams at Tia J 



LEOCEREUS 



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Fig. 159. — Flower of B. emoryi. Xo.8. 



IndisSncT- L?eoles"1il7otTr;rt?t ''•"''' '""J^T^^^ .^^"^-like in habit; ribs numerous, but low and 

 inaistinct, areoles approximate, bearing acicular spines and felt, but no wool or hairs- flowers 

 axillary, solitary, small, narrowly campanulate, with a short limb; ova"y and Twer tube ve'rvscalv 



In its narrow flower in the hairs in axils of the scales on the ovary and tube this ^enus 



suggests Oreocereus, but is verv different in ^nhi't Tu^ fl^ ^vm j auu luuc inis genus 



thnt of Vvr/nr^K.«c ;. -f ^ timerent m habit. The flower of Leocereus is different from 



tL ienTs r^^^^^ '^"'' perianth-segments, hairy and bristly areoles. 



f'^i '" ^u^rV^'l fr""' ^- ^^'^^'^ ^^'^^' Director, Jardim Botanico, Rio de 



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The first of the 3 species here described is taken as the type. 



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I. Z. hahiensis 



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Flowers 4 cm. long; spines yellowish brown 



Mowers 6 to 7 cm. long; spines dark chestnut-brown " ' ' " 



Axils of scales on ovary densely lanate; fruit villous , , - 



Axils of scales on ovary sparsely lanate; fruit nearly naked ''• f "|^^«««':"^ 



3. L. glaztovn 



1. Leocereus bahiensis sp. nov. 



cm inTametL'*rr'',',''V„'°"''l™'' "'f ' '<""^«'"» clambering, up 

 sp"„ " „1 rr ' , ■ w", !, ' !■ ^"i 5^<;°'- ^"?^ together, circulf ;. b^ 



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to 2 meters long, i to 1.5 

 bearing white felt and spines; 



spines numerous, the central ones m^ch Wr than X r. h' Tu' ^^^""/ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^"^ 'P^"^' = 



material at Barrinha Bahia Brazil i!,^^^ , ^' '^P*^^ ' ^^^" ^'- ^°^^ obtained more 

 Garden; in October^f, Dr ' 7e W ,; ^"1 'X'"S Pl''"'^ «'ere sent to the New York Botanical 

 ^-^^^^^B!!:!?iZ.£L!£!?!?l!l^^^ district of Bahia. 



*By typographical error Bergerocereus. ' 



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