Tas. 7147. 
PERESRIA ACULEATA. 
Native of Tropical America. 
Nat. Ord. Cactéa,—Tribe OPINILIER. 
Genus Prresxia, Will; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 851.) 
PERESKIA aculeata ; arbuscula ramosa, sape subscandens, ramulis robustis, 
pulvinis dense tomentosis glabrisve, spinis rectis et elongatis v. parvis et 
uncinatis, foliis planis ellipticis elliptico-lanceolatisve rapius obovatis 
ovatisve et basi cordatis, cymis multifloris, calycis tubo spinosis, petalis 
rumerosis oblongo-obovatis obtusis subacutisve rarius retusis, stigmatibus 
fusiformibus, bacca globosa sepala foliacea gerente oligosperma. 
P. aculeata Haworth Syn. Pl. & 198; Lind?. in Bot. Reg. t. 1928; DC. 
’ Yn. Lt, Suce, p. 3 L1nd. Vie » £0eg : 
Prod. vol, iti. p. 1?4; Pfeif. Enum, Oact.p.175; Pfeiff. & Otto. Abbild. 
n. Beschr. Ouet. p. 1; Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 356. 
P. longispina, Haworth Z. ec. 198, - ‘4 ? 
“irescia aculeata, Zuccarini in Abhandl. Bayr. Akad. Wiss. vol. : ii. p. 696; 
Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 303; Deseourl. #1. Antill. vol. iv. p. 294; Forst. 
: Handb, Cact. Ra. 2, p. 299, 
oor. Sacharosa, Grised. in Goett, Abhandl. vol. xxiv. p, 141. a 
Cactus Pereskia, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 671; Ait. Hort. Kew, Bd. 2, vol. iii. p. 180. 
C. Peirescia, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol. ii. p. 498 (excl. syn. Bleo). 
C. Sarmentosus, &c., Brown Hist. Jam. p. 237. pen ese 
Pereskia aculeata flore albo, é&c., Plum. Nov. Gen. p. 85, t. 26; rte P 
_ Dict. (1789); Dillen, Hort. Eltham. p. 305, t. 217, £294; Linn. Hort. 
Clif. p. 183, 
Portulacca Americana, &c., Pluk. Alm. p. 135, t. 215, f. 6. re 
Malus Americana, spinosa &c., Commel. Hort. Med. vol. i. p. 135, t. 30. ree 
G : : ; ii. p.86; Ray Hist. Pl.-vol. iii. ; 
rossularia fructu, &c., Sloane Jam. Hist. vol. ii. p. 86; Ray 
Dendr, p. 27, No, 5. 
Nat. names, Grosseille des Barbades of the French; Saatigg "aya z 
bush of the English ; Blad apple of the Dutch; Sacharosa in 
. : : ical 
Though one of the very earliest introduced of tropica 
Shrubs, “having been cultivated in the Roy as Econ yreanet 
ampton Court in 1696, and ever since in 2d een sick 
| lishments, Pereskia aculeata is, from its es sagt “ett 
-8reen foliage, and shyness of flowering, a V 4 Salar elt 
plant amongst horticulturists. At Kew it lish nt, but 
vated ever since the foundation of that establis a when 
there is no record of its haying flowered os — wise aid so 
@ plant trained up a rafter of the agers see 
(in the month of October), and that is here ngured. 
Novemprr Ist, 1890, 
