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Named in honor of N. F. Pieresk of Aix, in Province, 
a lover of Botany. 
Pereskia aculeata. West- Indict Gooseberry. 
Leaves elliptic, prickles axillary, generally two 
together short recurved, flowers sub-raceinose, 
fruit globular bearing a few leafy sepals. 
Grossularise fructu majore arbor spinosa, fructu folioso. 
Sloane, II. 86. — Cactus sarmentosus spinis geminis recur- 
vis. Browne 237. 
II All. On Fences. 
F 1. After the rains. 
Long trailing branches supported on neighbouring ob- 
jects. Prickles axillary, in pairs, one sixtlfof an ineh in 
length, recurved on each side of the petiole. Leaves 
thickish, veinless. Flowers rather large, white, towards 
the end of the branches, peduncled. Sepals oblong, at- 
tached to the ovary, Petals arranged so as to form a 
sort of rotate corolla. Fruit size of a large goose-berry, 
yellow, with a tuft of 3 linear leaflets, reflexed at the apex, 
at its crown or summit, and with single leaflets, placed 
lower down in three tiers, three in each, in a quincuncial 
arrangement. The fruit resembles in taste as well as 
appearance the Gooseberry of Europe, but is more in- 
tensely acid. 
2. Pereskia portulactefolia. Purslane-leaved 
Gooseberry. 
Leaves obovato-cuneate, prickles beneath the 
leaf solitary, afterwards on the stem fasciculed, 
flowers solitary, petals emarginate, fruit globose 
retuse naked. 
Opuntia arbor spinossissima, foliis portulacoe cordatis. 
Plum. Spec. 6. t. 197. f. 1. — Cactus portulacasfolius, Linn. 
Spec. 671. — Liman, Hort. Jam. II. 236. — Pereskia portu- 
lacse folia, Haw. Syn. 199. — DC. Prod. III. 475. 
II A B. Cultivated. 
F L. After the rains. 
First a shrub with trailing branches; afterwards as- 
suming the port of a tree with the stem armed with fas- 
cicules of long sharp thorn-like prickles. Leaves wedge- 
shaped at the base, emarginate, thick, alternate or 
