

66 



MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



\ 



given in the Botanical Magazine, pi. 7222, 



somewhat from that of Engelmann, 

 arently been prepared from a dried s 

 gigantic plant has often been figured 

 s in later years frequently been intro< 



It 



flowered only once in Europe, in the Royal Botanic Gardens 



Kew, in J 



In 



native land the fruits are 



food 



dried fig 



VII. STENOCEREUS A. Berg, 



Flowers small (4-8 cm.), tubular, reddish or usually brownish; 

 ovary globose with deltoid scales, naked or with a lew setulose hairs 

 and little wool; tube with elongate naked appressed scales; sepaloid 

 and petaloid perianth leaves small, ovate-lanceolate; filaments little 

 shorter, numerous, inserted in the middle of the tube, forming there a 

 distinct ring; styles not exserted, with about 6-8 short stigmata. Fruit 

 globose, (3-4 cm.) j brownish, with reddish pulp. —Plate 3. 



Chiefly Mexican species of columnar or frutescent 

 growth. Type: C 'ereus stellatus Pfeiff. 



Web 



Mexico. 



(Stenocereus) 



Mexico. 



Central 



C. {Stenocereus ?) marginatus DC. 1. c. 90. — Mexico. 



C. {Stenocereus) sonorensis Runge. 1. c. Nachtr. 27 (sub C. stellatus 



Pfeiff.!) — Sonora. 

 C. {Stenocereus) stellatus Pfeiff. 1. c. 79. 



The flowers of this subgenus are small and of 

 The inner petals only are somewhat brighter, 

 species ( O. stellatus, sonorensis, Chiotilla) the flowers come 

 from the highest areoles of the stems ; in C. Dumortieri 

 and C. marginatus they are lateral. In the latter they 

 are said to come sometimes in pairs from one areole. 



In some 



G 



flowers every year at 



Cereus sonorensis Runge is a distinct species 



Mortola. 

 although 



Schumann 



C. Alamosensis Coult 

 :cording to Mr. Wein 



g 



of Nauendorf . 



