238 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
CEREUS BERLANDIERI (Berlandier’s). A dwarf watery- 
fleshed species with creeping stems about 6 inches long, 
and less than an inch thick; ridged, and with hill-like eminences which 
bear the spines. From the stem grow more upright shoots which support 
enormous purple flowers (4 inches across) with rosy stamens. 
C. cocciNEus (scarlet). Stems creeping, long-jointed, triangular. 
Spines white and yellow, rising from yellow cushions. Flowers large 
and many, scarlet. Brazil (1828). 
C. CTENOIDES (comb-like). Stem 4 or 5 inches high, and almost as 
broad ; egg-shaped, with spiral ribs which are closely set with rosettes 
of long white spines. Flowers bright yellow, 3 or 4 inches across, pro- 
duced near the summit of plant. Native of Texas. 
C. FLAGELLIFORMIS (whip-shaped). Rat’s-tail Cactus, Stems pro- 
strate, with ten or twelve low ridges chiefly produced by the longitudinal 
lines of rosettes of long whitish bristles. Flowers violet-pink or red. 
Plate 117, 
C. FULGIDUS (shining). Stems tall, three- to four-angled, spiny at 
the joints. Flowers lustrous, orange-scarlet, inner petals deeper red; 6 
to 7 inches across. Introduced from Tropical America (1870). 
C. GRANDIFLORUS (large-flowered). Stems tall, climbing, angled, 
bristles from downy rosettes. Flowers about 8 inches long, and nearly 
a foot across, vanilla-scented, opening in the evening, and fading early 
in the morning; sepals brown without, yellow within, petals pure white. 
C. Macponarpia (Macdonald’s). Stems cylindrical, creeping; 
branched, about 4-inch in diameter. Flowers more than a foot across, 
opening at night; sepals humerous, red and bright orange, petals pure 
white. Native of Honduras. : 
C. PROCUMBENS (bending down). Stems prostrate, with erect shoots, 
3 or 4 inches high ; quadrangular, with tufts of spines along the angles 
Flowers bright rosy purple, wide-spreading, 3 inches across. <A native 
of Mexico, 
C. QUADRANGULARIS (quadrangular). Stems creeping, four-angled 
and spiny. Flowers white, fragrant, opening only at night. 
C. SPEcIosissimus (most showy). Stems erect, 3 to 6 feet, angled 
~ angles toothed and furnished with prickles. Flowers larg® 
Spreading, bright scarlet ; stamens white. Native of Mexico (1816). : 
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Principal Species. 
