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THE CACTACEAE. 



apart; radial spines 6 or 7, 5 to 10 cm. long, grayish; central spine 1 ; flowers small, yellowish green; 

 fruit spiny, globose, 2 to 2.5 cm. in diameter, red both within and without; seeds small, black, with a 

 basal hilum. 



Type locality: Cerro Colorado, near Tehuacan, Mexico. 



Distribution: Puebla and Oaxaca, Mexico. 



The plant is known as chichipe, or, according to Dr. C. A. Purpus, chichibe. The 

 fruit, which is sold in the Mexican markets, like many other Mexican cactus fruits, has a 

 different name from the plant ; it is called chichi tuna. 



Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Acclim. France 52: f. 7, as Cereus chichipe; Monatsschr. Kak- 

 teenk. 19: 53, as Cereus mixtecensis. 



Lemaireocereus longispinus. 



Fig. 132. — Iv. eichlamii. 



8. Lemaireocereus chende (Gosselin). 



Cereus chende Gosselin, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 11: 506. 1905. 

 Cereus del moralii J. A. Purpus, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 19: 89. 1909. 



Plant 5 to 7 meters high, with a short indefinite trunk, very much branched above, forming 

 a large top; branches rather slender, ascending or erect; ribs 7 to 9, rather sharp; areoles on old 

 branches 1.5 cm. apart, on young branches perhaps closer together; radial spines usually 5, the 

 centrals when present a little longer than the radials, brown to bright yellow, in age grayish, acicular ■ 

 flowers small, about 3 to 4 cm. long including the ovary; fruit said to be deep red, very spiny. 



