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and form a special prov.p fron then. Most stränge is, what he 

 writes about the M. nicroneri s . It was to have a entirely central' 

 flower, which emerged not fron the axillae but fron the areoles 

 of the namillae. According to your Illustration Tb* I Po. 2 the 

 flower seems truly to be central* Is the seedjf of this interes - 

 ting plant not to "be had at all anv raore ?. Very surprisimr is, 

 what he writes to ne about the cerei t : 

 ( the following is in French in the original. E.D. ) 



An Observation, which is nost striking and which you nust have 

 nade like I, is, thafc , contrary to the opinion held. to this day t , 

 the majority of the large torches' have absolutely no lateral flo- 

 wer s but alnost entirely terminal ( apical) ones like the Ecbino - 

 cactus (end of French text, B.D. )• In an other part of his letter 

 he says, that the overwhelning najority of the Cerei had nid. - 

 positioned flowers ! That I definitely X did not ofeserve, rather 

 no Cereus nor Pllocereus_ is known to rae, which flower^ in the manner 

 of the Echir o cact us ; I can relate this renark of Weber o^ly to Py 

 Hopperwstedtijf. C. Tet e|q , C . ( iTono s tle g C . Hol 1 i anus & C. ftiotiVla,. , . 

 which all are new and. which I have not Seen, Of the colunnar Cerei 

 (e.g. angularis ) I know only few, which exlst in Mexico. The nost 

 connon is C. narginatus . which, like all the others, always flowers 

 fron older, sometimes very old f areoles. Then C. Dunortieri , which 

 Weber seems not to have known well; this one grows tree-like, i . e. 

 it forns a large crown. Further, C f pruinosus . which I however did 

 not see nyself, I found however it* s large, spiny fruit on the mar- 

 ket of Mexico and grew it fron the seed here in Berlin; it is the 

 same, which Dr. Weber calls C, edulis . it grows with us extremely 

 slowly, nust however reach a mighty size in its native land, and, 

 nost likely, is also tree-like. Fin^lly C. geometri^ans . which too 

 is tree-like with a very strong crown; 





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