Temple City, Calif. 
HYLOCEREUS. Climbing, tropical, shade loving 
cacti having large white nocturnal flowers often in- 
tensely fragrant. Because of the speed of growth it is 
difficult to keep shipping size plants available, and 
since they root quickly and easily we offer the follow- 
ing as unrooted cuttings, or we will root them to order 
for ten cents each additional. 
H. cubensis .50, H. extensis .50, H. guatemalensis .50, 
H. ocamponis .50, H. polyrhizus .50, H. trigonus .20, 
H. triangularis .20, H. undatus (the “Honolulu Queen 
Cactus”) .20, H. costaricensis .25 
LEMAIREOCEREUS. Tall growing tree-like cacti 
from Mexico which become quite large in their native 
habitat, but seedling plants make fine attractive speci- 
mens suitable to indoor culture or outdoor in southern 
climates where frosts are light. 
L. beneckii. Called “Silver Tip’ or “Silver Cane’ 
because of its handsome grayish green skin with a 
frosted white waxy covering. Has short black spines, 
undulated ribs, is a fast grower and we recommend it 
for every collection. Sturdy plants .50, exhibition 
specimens $1.00 
L. hollianus. Seedlings .25 
L. laetus, Rare Peruvian .50 
L. marginatus. The “Pipe Organ’ cactus, attractive 
with its sturdy green columns and closely set short 
spines forming a distinct margin along the edges of 
the broad flattened ribs .25, larger .50 
L. pruinosus. Fast growing four or five angles later 
becoming grayish or pruinose in color. Seedlings .20, 
large specimens $1.50 
L. thurberi. Brown spined .35 
L. webert. Mexican giant .45 
LEUCHTENBERGIA  principis. Called “Agave 
Cactus’ because its long slender tubercles tipped with 
straw like spine formations cause it to resemble an 
Agave or Century Plant rather than a cactus. Flowers 
very large and yellow. Nice seedling plants .75 
LOBIVIA. A genus of rather small growing plants 
single headed or forming clusters of many heads 
prized for the colorful day blooming flowers ranging 
from yellow through orange and reds, often with two 
tone color arrangements. Need loose well drained 
soil, water well when growing, but keep dormant and 
rather dry during the winter months for best flowers. 
Because seed is difficult to obtain most of these are 
offered as grafted specimens. They like full sun and 
prefer out door locations. 
L. allegriana. Bright green body, scarlet flower .35 
L. atrovirens. A neat short spined species offsetting 
freely .25 
L. aurea. Easily grown, flower large golden yellow. 
Small .25, larger .50 
L. backebergii. Light pea green body, nearly spine- 
less; flower bright carmine .35 
L. binghamiana. Small clustering, free flowering with 
bright red flowers .25 
L. caespitosa. Long yellow spines, flower yellow and 
red .35 
L. chrysantha. Chocolate gray body; golden flowers 
shading to a coffee color on the outer petals. Grafted 
50 
L. chrysochete. Elegant .25 
L. drijveriana vat. aurantiaca, Grafted .50 
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L. famatimensis. The most beautiful with its chocolate 
brown body overlaid with rows of lighter colored 
spines lying flat against the ribs making it easy to 
handle. The flowers are a dark blood red. I have seen 
them two inches in diameter on a one inch plant 
Grafted .50, larger with offsets $1.00, rooted plants .50 
L. famatimensis var. setosa. Has short white bristly 
spines and a yellow flower. Rooted or grafted .50, 
large specimens $1.00 
L. hertrichiana. Fast growing freely offsetting, with 
bright green body. Produces flowers more profusely 
than any other Lobivia that we have grown. Large red 
flower .60, smaller .30 
L, jajoiana. Distinctive with whitish radial spines and 
black central; flowers red with black throat. Seedlings 
.20, larger .50 
L. hossei, Rare slow growing species. Grafts $1.00 
L. lateritia, Rooted plant .40 
L. longispina. Seedling .20 
L. mistiensis. A distinctive species from near the Peru- 
vian volcano Misti. Plant body a peculiar shade of 
blue-gray-green slightly glaucous. Flowers in shades 
of red tinged with violet .40 
L. neo-haageana. Grows in-clusters of grayish green 
heads tinged with red with short harmless spines. 
Flowers salmon. Grafted .35, larger specimens .50 
L. pseudocachensis. A small clustering species with 
short harmless spines; flower bright deep red. Grafted 
.40 
L. raphidacantha. Bears the longest spines of all, a 
beautiful reddish color when newly grown. Grafted 
large specimens .75 
L. rebutioides. Attractive chocolate brown body; 
flower citron yellow. Rooted specimens .75 
L. rubescens. Vigorous grower, the. young spines red- 
dish; flower large yellow .50, larger flowering speci- 
mens on own roots $1.50 
L. wegheiana. Bright yellow spined; flower lilac; from 
the highest Andes of Central Bolivia. Rare. Grafted .75 
LOPHOCEREUS schottiz. A columnar type four to 
five angled bordered on ribs with dark spines. Small 
ones .25, specimens $1.00 
LOPHOPHORA williamsii. Known to the Indians as 
‘Peyote’ or “Sacred Mushroom’”’ later named ‘‘Mescal 
Button,’ “Dry Whiskey’ or “Dope Cactus.” This one 
has in the past had more scientific and literary publicity 
than any other, because it contains an alkali which 
when eaten is said to produce colorful visions. It is, 
however, an attractive pot plant with large flattened 
gray green ribs dotted with tufts of silky hairs and 
frequently bears small pink flowers. A “must have’ for 
every collector. Small ones .35, large specimens .75 
MACHAEROCEREUS eruca. The “Creeping Devil 
Cactus’ so named because it grows prostrate upon the 
ground after growing large enough to lean over and 
is armed with stiff needle sharp spines. Known only 
from the vicinity of Magadalena Bay, Lower Califor- 
nia .75 
MALACOCARPUS vorwerckianus. We are fortunate 
in being able to offer this rarity from Colombia in 
perfect flowering specimen plants at .75 
April 7, 1941. 
Thank you very much for the shipment of plants 
which I received in perfect condition. I am very much 
pleased over the size of these beautiful plants. 
RICHARD THURM, Woodside, N. Y. 
