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H floccosa Cels, ex Foerst Handb R fioecO'Sa H funalis Cels, ex Foerst Handb R, funalis H mesembrianthemoides Nov Desc 29, is H pentaptera is R Lem is 408, R is (1857), 458, is 457, is i Cact Alia mesambrianthemoides Lem ex Foerst Handb 453, Lem 111 Hort x Misc 84 R pentaptera H prismatica (1863), is R tetragona? H caglionis Leim Cact Aliq Nov Desc PHYLLOCACTUS ACUMINATUS KS State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil HARIOTA* SALICORNIOIDES DC PHYLLOCACTUS ANGULIGER Lem Rhipsalis salicornioides Haworth, PHYLLOCACTUS BIPORMIS Lab Brazil Honduras, Central America Variety BAMBUSOTDES Weber HARIOTA VLLLIGERA KS PHYLLOCACTUS CRENATUS Walp Honduras, Central America KS' Fl Br 266: S Paulo, Brazil H elavata Web U S, is R clavata PHYLLOCACTUS HOOKERI S PHYLLOCACTUS KAMPMANNI Hort Genus KHIPSALIS Gaertn Kampmann's Case-knife cactus is a RHIPSALIS CASSYTHA Gaertn 39, of than the King cactus, RHIPSALIS SALICORNIOIDES Haw and the flowers are only about inches less robust plant in diameter, the petals broader in proportion, of a bright, but lighter, crimson Filaments white, antlers canary yellow This is a general favorite in San Diego gardens ,also, producing its lovely flowers in the greatest profusion PHYLLOCACTUS LATIPRONS Schlumbergera/ epiphylloddes Phyllo cactus Russellianus S'tromatocactus Kotschubeyi Anhalonium sulcatum S Tephrocactus andicolus Lem, Lem., is Karw, is is Opuntia andicola, Tephrocactus aoraeanthus Lem, is Opun- tia andicola Pf Tephrocactus diadematus Lem, is Opuntia diademata pla.tyacanthus Lem, is Tephrocactus Opuntia platyacantha Zygocactus Altenstemii KS, is EpiphylI'um truncatum fide KS crenated and commonly to 10 feet high The flowers are to inches long, Genus PFEIPFERA Salm about inches in diameter, the petals PFEIFFERA CEREIFORMIS Salm of a delicate, clear, creamy white, the A synonym of Rhipsalis cereiformis The Queen cactus Walp quite the giant among the Phyllocacti, the stout flattened stems to inches broad, deeply is Cacti.— Orcutt 55 Genus MAIHUENIA lated; Phil Rebutia minuseula KS, is rhaphe usually not prominent, not margined; embryo forming less than one circle around the more copious albumen; cotyledons inconstant, contrary, oblique, or parallel to the sides of the seed."— B therefore M POEPPIGII Wetoer M BRACHYDELPHYS KS M PHILIPPII Weber PTEROCACTUS KUNTZEI 56 KS Echinocactus minusculus seed OPUNTIA ACANTHOCARPA & E B "Arborescens; ramis alternis adscen- Genus PERESKIA PERESKIA ACULEATA Plum dentibus; articulis cylindricis; tuberculis Mill The Barbadoes gooseberry or Blad-ap- elongatis; aculeis 8-25 stellato-divaricaresemble those of the or- tis; bacca subglobosa tuberculata aculeange; much used for grafting purposes ata; eeminibus multangularis Mountains West Indies PERESKIA BLEO P DC of Cactus Pass, between Santa Fe and PERESKIA LYCHNIDIFLORA, P DC the western Colorado Stems 5-6 high; PERESKIA PANAMENSIS Web branches, few, alternate, and separating PERESKIA TAMPICANA Web from the stem at an acute angle Joints Genus NOPALEA Salm, / ple; the leaves - Erect, branching plants, with flattened elongated joints; flowers red or crimson, petals erect and slightly approaching each other at the apex, stamens longer than the corolla NOPALEA AUBERI as in [O arborescens] 4-6 about an inch in or long, S diameter; tubercles 9-19 lines long; intener spines \-\%' or ones 4-10 lines long Spines of , exterifruit Salm-Dyck growth; arborescent on the depressed tubercles 3-6 lin long Cuba; rapid in form, and bearing numerous rose-colored flow- Seeds large, unlike those of any other ers with exsert stamens; the branches armed E syn 308 with stout spines; readily grown from cut- Opuntia seen by me." — tings NOPALEA COCCINELLIPERA The cochineal cactus, a native ico NOPALEA DEJECTA Salm-Dyck, Cuba Salm Hort Dyck ed 2, Salm ?0 californica E Emory's rep 157 f n # of Mex- OPUNTIA ALCAHEIS Web OPUNTIA ANDICOLA Pfeiffer OPUNTIA AORACANTHA Lem 233 64, OPUNTIA ARBORESCENS Engelm NOPALEA KARWINSKIANA S NOPALEA MONILIFORMIS KS Genus OPUNTIA Tournefort "Tube of the flower very short, cupshaped: petals spreading or rarely erect: ovary with bristle-bearing areolae in the axils cf small terete deciduous sepals: beiry succulent or bometimes dry, marked with biistly or spiny areolae, truncate with a wide umbilicus: seeds large, white, compressed, w.th the embryo colled round the albumen; cot ledo.is la ge, foliaceous Articulated, much branched plants, of various shapes, low and prosyoung trate or erect and shrub-like; branches Vvith small terete subulate early deciduous leaves, and in their axils an areola with numerois short easily detached bristles, and, usually, stouter spines, all barbed Flowers on the joints of the previous year, on the same areolae, with the spines, mostly large, open only Fruit often edible, often in sunlight large."—E — "Caule ligneo erecto, ramis horizon - talibus, ramulis cylindricis, tuberculatis' aculeatissimis; areolis oblongis, brevissi- me tomentosis, aculeos 12-30 corneos stramineo-vaginatos teretes undique porrectos gerentibus; ramulis versus apicem floriferis; ovario tuberculato, tuberculis sub-20 apice sepala subulata et areolas tomentosas cum setis paucis albidis gerentibus; sepalis interioribus 10-13 obovatis; petalis obovatis, obtusis atis; va, s e margin- stigmatibus sub-8 patulis; bacca flaovato-globosa, tuberculata, sicca, prolunde umbilicata Mountains of New Mexico to Chihuahua, Parras and Saltil- flowers in May and Je; fruit, at least Santa Fe ripening the 2nd year about camuessa Web, is, robusta decumana Gris, is monacantha (Fendler); in the north 5-10, south 20 flavicans Lem,, is robusta maxima Hort (non Web), is ro- and more feet high, s-io' in diam, last busta branches 2-4' long; spines of the speciOpuntia stenopeta'a E, is glauscescens 20-30 in each Subgenus CYLINDROPUNTIA E,— mens on Waggon-mound "Joints cylindrical, more or less tubercu- bunch; further south only 12-20, gener- Opuntia Opuntia Opuntia Opuntia Opuntia auberi Pf, is Nopalea auberi lo; -Orcutt Cacti 57 fewer on the under ally branchlets; spines the with from 3-10 straw-colored loose sheaths, lines, of side horn-colored, generally about lines Ion;; Flow- ers purple, / in diam; stamens red; about i / long, yellow ' On Waggon-mound the first fruit specimens of a strange Opuntia were found, with an erect, ligneous stem, and cylindrical, horridly spinous horizontal branches The plant wes here only ft high, but grows about Santa Fe to the height of or 10 ft, and continues to be found as far as Chihuahua and ParIn the latter more favorable climate grows to be a tree of 20 or 30, and it perhaps even 40 feet high, as Dr Wislizenus informs me, and offers a most beautiful aspect when covered with its large red flowers It is evidently the plant which Torrey and James doubtful- though incorrectly, refer to Cactus Bleo HBK It is nearly allied to Opuntia furiosa, Willd but well distinguished from it; * * * the tree cactus, or Foconoztle, as called by the Mexicans, accordThe stems of the ing to Dr Gregg ly, dead plant present most singular appearance; the soft parts having rotted away, a net- work of woody fibres remains, forming a hollow tube, with very regular rhombic meshes, which correspond with the tubercles of the living plant." — E Wislizenus' report, 90 OPUNTIA ARBUSCULA E OPUNTIA AUSTRALIS Web OPUNTIA BERNARDINA Engelm OPUNTIA BIGELOVII Engelm "Ramis erectis adscendentibusve; s foi nun.", a traded head, with dense [oints 2-6 / long; tubercles lines long; large! spines are f about long, sftialler ones y lines \ long " ,| — E Am ac pr 3:307 OPUNTIA BRACHYARTHRA & B OPUNTIA m Li SPIN A E OPI nti A CEREFORM IS Web OPUNTIA C'HOLi A Web OPUNTIA CIRIBB E OPUNTIA CLAVARXOIDE'S L-O OPUNTIA LAV ATA OPLN'LIA ORKIJGa'JA S OPUNTIA CUHASSAVICA Mill OPUNTIA CYLIN DRICA DC OPUNTIA DARWINII Hensl OPUNTIA DAVIS.II E & B OPUNTIA DIADPOMATA Lem OPUNTIA ECHINOCARPA E & B OPUNTIA EMORYI Engelm OPUNTIA FLOCCOSA S OPUNTIA FRAGILIS Haw OPUNTIA FULGIDA Engelm OPUNTIA GEISSEI R A Phil OPUNTIA GRAHAMII Engelm OPUNTIA GRATA R A Phil OPUNTIA IMBRICATA P DC OPUNTIA* INVICTA Brandegee OPUNTIA KLEINIAE P DC OPUNTIA LEONINA H-S OPUNTIA LEPTOCAULIS D C OPUNTIA -LURIDA Hort OPUNTIA MAMILLATA Schct OPUNTIA MIQUELII Monv OPUNTIA MOLESTA Brandegee OPUNTIA NiGRISPINA KS OPUNTIA OVATA Pf OPUNTIA PARISHII Orcutt OPUNTIA PARRYI E OPUNTIA PENTLANDII S OPUNTIA PLATYACANTHA S, OPUNTIA PPOTIFEPA Engelmann OPUNTIA FULCHELLA E OPUNTIA PYCNACANTHA B Opuntia ramos'ssima B, is tessellata OPUNTIA ROSEA DC OPUNTIA ROFIFLORA KS OPUNTIA ROTUNDIFOLIA KS OPUNTIA SALMIANA Parm OPUNTIA SCmCKENDANTZII Web OPUNTIA SOHOTTII E OPUNTIA SERPENTINA Engelmann OPUNTIA SPEGAZZINII Web OPUNTIA SPINO'SISSTMA Mill OPUNTIA STAPBL1AE P DC OPUNTIA SUBUuATA Engelm OPUNTIA TARAPACANA R A Phil OPUNTIA TERES Cels OPUNTIA TESAJO Engelm "With very short woody stem, and growing in little clumps dm or less in JO (flower- less) ras high, the branch* ar- ticulis ovato-cylindricis pallide virescen- J : 10 ( ( joints slender and not distinctly tuberculate; flowers simple, bell-shared, sphaericis depressis confertis: aculeis Type, Gabb 26 in hb Mo bot gard Among rocks, especially toward the west 10 robustioribus et totidem gracilioribus coast and in the more central portions', inferioribus; ovario tuberculato; bacca Lower Calif oirnia." Coulter, Cont Na hb tibus congestis; tuberculis subhemi- diameter; 6- yellow — tuberculata subinda 3-448 (sterili!) aculeolata; seminibus parvis "On William's river of the Californian Colorado Stem 3~4 / thick and 10-12 ft OPUNTIA TESSELLATA Engelm OPUNTIA THURBERI E OPUNTIA TUNICATA L-O OPUNTIA VERSCHAFFELTII Cels OPUNTIA VERSICOLOR E OPUNTIA VESTITA S - Cacti.— Orcutt 59 OPUNTIA WHIPPLEI E & B This 60 is probably O Stanlyi, the following description Opuntia tetracantha Tourney "An irregularly known:— 'Opuntia? Oct §Cylindropuntia branching shrub 6-15 dm high; primary branches erect or ascending from a stout woody trunk 5-8 cm in diameter, and bearing numerous short, lateral branches at irregular intervals; ultimate branch- mm is that 22, 1846 dant on the Del Norte and Gila markable plant, apparently more Mamillaria than like an Opuntia fruit is also which of all is Abun- A relike a The represented without areolae or tubercles, exactly like the smooth a Mamillaria; but this may be an oversight of the artist The habit of the plant suggests the belief that it is an Opuntia of the section Cylindracese Joints or branches ascending, cylindrical, tuberculated, 4-6 inches long, 1-1^4' inches in diameter; tubercles very prominent, with about long (1-13^2 inches) straight spines; fruit obovate, umbilicate, scarlet, towards the top of the branches, about lines long and in diameter It is a distinct species, which I am gratified to dedicate to the skilful artist who has drawn all these figures, —Mr J M Stanfruit of in diameter; joints cylindries 12-15 with a reticulated cal, 25-30 cm long, woody skeleton; tubercles at first promilong, but on old stems nent, 16-22 more or less inconspicuous; pulvini sparingly covered with wool and bearing a small crescent-shaped tuft of light brown bristles at the upper margin; spines usually 4, stout, loosely sheathed, strawcolored, strongly deflexed, flattened, 23.5 cm long, occasionally or smaller ones, not increasing in size and number after first season's growth; glands conspicuous, a half dozen or more between the spines and bristles; flowers greenish purple, 1.5-2 cm broad; fruit ovate to subglobose, narrowly but deeply umbili cate, 2-25 cm long, juicy, scarlet, usually nearly smooth, but sometimes some of the pulvini bearing 1-3 strong deflexin ed spines; seeds irregular, 3-5 diameter, commissure broad, with conspicuous spongy appearance." Tourney Garden and Forest 9: 432 (28 N 1896) "An interesting species of Cylindropuniia grows in considerable abundance about miles east of Tucson, but, so far It as known, only in this one locality seems to be nearest related to Opuntia Thurberi E., but differs from that plant, so far as one can judge from the incomplete description and examination of type material in the Engelmann herbaderium, in its longer more strongly flexed spines, smaller and different-col- Subgenus PLATOPUNTIA E.— "Joints compressed rhaphe forming a prominent bony margin around the seed; embryo completing- a little more than one circle around the scanty albumen; cotyledons contrary to the sides of the seed."— E the function of which seems to be to drop to the ground and deve'op into new plants The fruit matures in Dec, but remains attached to the plant until "Plant only 9-12 dm high, with large orbicular glaucous joints; fruit 'as large as a goose egg', juicy, nulny, and with purple pulp; seec's small 'much liks those of mm mm ly." — E in Emory r 158 f ; OPUNTIA ANGUSTATA E & B OPUNTIA ARENARIA Engelm — OPUNTIA AURANTIACA Ui OPUNTA BASILARIS tungelm Variety RAMOS A Parish OPUNTIA BECKERIANA KS OPUNTEA CAMANCHICA E-B CANDELABRAFORMIS OPUNTIA Mart OPUNTIA CHLOROTICA Engelm OPUNTIA CRASSA Haw OPUNTIA CRINIFERA Pf OPUNTIA DECUMBENS S OPUNTIA DULC1S Engelm OPUNTIA ENGELMANNI Slm-Dyck OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA Mill OPUNTIA FILIPENDULA E OPUNTIA FOLIOSA S OPUNTIA FULVISPINA Slm-Dyck It may be known OPUNTIA FUSCOATRA K ored flowers, etc GADAPAGEIA Hensl from all related species by its bright OPUNTIA OPUNTIA GLAUCESCENS S scarlet fruit, strongly deflexed spines OPUNTIA GLAUCOPHYLLA Wendl the OPUNTIA GRANDIS Hort and pecu'iar cork-like margin to OPUNTIA HTSTRICINA E-B seeds This plane and O leptocaulis OPUNTIA HYPTIACANTHA Web are the only Opuntias with which I am OPUNn I A INAMOENA KS familiar that produce small lateral bran- OPUNTIA INEEM1S PEC OPUNTIA LANCEOLATA Haw ches no larger than the fully developed OPUNTIA JvARREYI Weber fruits, O ficus indica' Type unknown A Mex- It has an agreable the following May ican srecies, found by Dr Weber about acid flavor and its bright color makes it Queretiaro, and pronounced by him the delicious of a.l the fruits he had the green most very conspicuous against tasted Known as 'camuessa' — Coulter, stems." — Tourney I.e Cont Na hb 3:423 6i Cacti.— Orcutt OPUNTIA LEUCOTRICHA P DC, Opuntia lindheimeri E, is Bngelmannii OPUNTIA MACROCENTRA Engelm OPUNTIA MACRORHIZA Engelm CPI NT1A MACULtAOANTHA F OPUNTIA MICRODASYS Pfeiff OPUNTIA MICRODISCA Web Oj UNTIA PI T TIA MICjaObCARPA K S > ISSOURiUNSIS P DC OPUNTIA MONACANTHA Haw OPUNTIA NIGIUCANS Haw OPUNTIA OCC1DEN TALIS Engelm i OPUNTIA OLIGACANTHA S OPUNTIA PALMERI Enge m o nts oval, smooth (not tuberculatcd), pale glaucous, 20-25 cm long by 15-20 era bread; puhini 2.5-3 cm apart, with pale brownish or ^ray persistent wool, a few very s'ender fctraw-colored bristles, and lender flattened or compressed straw-, •' f colored spines 2.5-3 cm long (5-7 on upper pulvini with some srna.,er a Id.tional ones l-€ on lower i ulvini), erect or or the upper ones (from upper Si reading, part of pulvinus) mostly deflexed Type, Palmer of 1877 in hb Mo bot gard Near St Gecrge, Utah."— Coulter, Cont Na hb 8-423 OPUNTIA PE^-CCRVI Le Cmte OPUNTIA Ph/iEAuANTHA Engelm OPUNTIA PiLIFERA Web OPlNTIA POi-YANTHA Haw OPUiviTIA PROCUMBENS E-B OPT 'NT I A PUBERUT A Pf OPUNTIA PYRRHACANTHA KS OP H NTT A QUIMILO KS OPUNTIA QUriENSIS WEb OPUNTIA RAFINESQUII Engelm OPUNTIA RHODANTHA KS OPUNTIA ROBUST A Wendl OPUNTIA RUtESCENS S OPUNTIA RUBRIFOLIA Engelm hachapl (>2 Mountains, Speciof California mens examined: California (Trelease Tins species is near basilarls, differs In Its -rounder more fleshy jelnts (terete below), pulvini not depressed (iii o basharis here s a depn Blon Cor the pulvlnus with a furrow on either side n Ihe genera surface), yellowish ri- ties, and esp cially In Its much larger ix!2» but i i I leaves," — Coulter i ontr > a hb OPUNTIA TIMACANTJIA P OPUNTIA TUNA Mill OPUNTIA URSINA Weber 3:434-435 DC Opuntia ursina is a name given by Albert Weber to a 'curious and beautiful plant of the Mohave desert, advertised as the Grizzly Bear cactus The joints are about by inches, densely covered with slender fiexuous ivory white spines, £he longest over inches long, and completely hiding the plant A cutting reminds one of the "Old Man" cactus of Mexico, but this belongs among the prickly pears forming low wide spreading masses of interlacing snow white spines ' * OPUNTIA VULGARIS Mill OPUNTIA XANTHOSTEMMA — KS Subgenus Peireskiopuntia OPUNTIA BRANDFGEEI KS OPUNTIA GOLZIANA KS OPUNTIA PITITACHB Web Subgenus Brasilopuntia OPUNTIA BRASILIENSIS Haw RHIPSALIS LUMBRIOOIDES Lem MADAGASCARIENSIS Web 'Pos'rate, with thick ovate jo nts 12-15 RHIPSALS MESEMBRIANHENOIDETS Haw cm kng by 10 cm broad, not tuberculated; R RHIPSALIS MICRANTHA DC leaves spreading, somewhat recurved, reddish, 8-10 mm leng; pulvini 2-2.5 cm RHIPSALIS MINUTIFLORA KS RHIPSALIS MONACANTHA Gris, apart, with brownish-gr^y persistent wool and numerous yellowish bristle® (especially on ihe upper edge); spires often twisted, 2.5-6 cm long, often a few addi- RHIPSALIS MYOSURUS KS RHIPSALIS NEVES'-ARMONDII KS RHIPSALIS PACHYPTERA Pf Varie y crassiohr S tional smaller oner, all deflexed (almost PARADOXA S appress d lowers and fruit unknown RHIPSALIS PENDULTFLORA NEBr Tyre, Palmer n hb Mo bot gard St RHIPSALIS Groige, Utah."— Coulter, Cont Na hb 3:424 RHIPSALIS PENTAPTERA Pf RHIPSALIS PLATYCARPA Lem OPUNTIA RUFIDA Engelm RHIPSALIS PULVINIGERA Lindb OPUNTIA RUTILA Nutt RHIPSALIS PUNICEO-DISCUS Lindb OPUNTIA SCHEERI Web RHIPSALIS RA.MULOSA Pf OPUNTIA SENILIS Roezl RHIPSALIS REGNELLII Lindb OPUNTIA SETISPINA E RHTPSAT IS RHOMBEA Pf OPUNTIA bPHAEROCARPA E-B Variety CRISP ATA KS OPUNTTA SPINULIFERA S RHIPSALIS ACULEATA Weber OPUNTIA STREPTACANTHA Lem RHIPSALIS AT ATA KS OPUNTIA STRIGILIS E RHTPSALIS ANCFP9 Weber OPUNTTA SULPHUREA Gill RHIPSALIS CAPILLIFORMIS Weber OVTJ-KTTA t-WNTTTPTTNA Engelm RHIPSALIS CAVERNOSA Lindb OPUNTIA TOMENTOPA S RHIPSALIS CLAVATA Weber OPUNTTA " ORTISPINA E-B RHIPSALIS COMORENSIS Weber OPUNTIA TRE LEASH Coulter "Erect, diffusely branching: joints or- RHIPSALIS CONFERTA S bicular ^o obmate, fl shy, with terete RHIPSALIS DISSIMILIS KS base, 15-25 cm long: pulvini not depressed, RHIPSALIS ELLIPTICA Lindb with long (5- cm) dense dirty-yellow bris- RHTPSALIS ELLTPTICA Lindb RHTPSALIS ERYTHROCARPA KS tles: Paves on young shoots mm long, sr reading (m.o^e than twice as long as RHIPSALIS FLOCCOSA S th s.e of asi aris and darker-red): flower RHIPSALIS GIBBERULA Weber and fruit not eeen — Type, growing in Mo RHIPSALIS GONACARPA Weber Rot Gard P98, from collection made by RHTPSALIS GRANDIFLORA Haw Trelease m 1892 At Caliente, in the Te- RHIPSALIS HADROSOMA Lindb ; ; f I + : Cacti— Orcutt RHIPSALIS HOULLETIANA Lem RHIPSALIS LINDBERGIANA KS RHIPSALIS LINEARIS KS RHIPSALIS SAGLIONIS Lem RHIPSALIS SANSIBARICA Weber RHIPSALIS SQUAMULOSA KS HRIPSALIS SUAREZIANA Weber RHIPSALIS TETRAGONA Weber RHIPSALIS TRTGONA Pf RHIPSALIS TUCMANENSIS Weber RHIPSALIS VIRGATA Weber RHIPSALIS WARMINGIANA KS RHIPSALIS VILLIGERA Orcutt Hariota villigera KS PI Br 266; mon 613 RHIPSALIS CEREPORMIS Foerst Pfeiffera cereformis S 61, 234; ab t Pfeiffera HD 40 (1884); ed 2, ianthothele Weber KS mon 610 CEREUS EXEREWS Linke CEREUS HERMENTIANUS Diet 944 Monv Pilocereus hermentianus Lem et Cons 111 Hort JIII t 469.— Lem cact 63.— Foerster handb cact ed 2, 266.— KS mon 186 CEREUS HOPPENSTEDTII Weber cat Pfersdorff, 1864 Foerster handb cact ed 667.— KS Mfk — 4:80: mom 177 CEREUS HOUT EITTII Orcutt CFREUS PBCTEN-ABORIOINUM E CEREUS PEINTAEDROPHILORUS Lab CEREUS LANUGINOSUSMill CEREUS MONITZIANUS Otto CEREUS POLYOPHUS DC CEREUS ROYEfNII Haworth CEREUS STRICTUS DC CEREUS RUSSELLI A.NUS Otto MELO CACTUS CAESIUS Wendl MELOCACTUS COMMUNIS L & O MELOCAOTUS DEPRESSUS Hook MELOC ACTUS GONI-AO^ N'T^US Lem MELO CACTUS LFMAI"REI Mio MELOCAOTUS MEO' ^ACANTHUS L&O MELOC ACTUS MICROCEPHALUS Miq MELOC ACTUS MIOUELII Lehm MELO CACTUS OBTUSIPETALUS Lem MELOC ACTUS PTRAMTjAUS S MELOCAOTUS VIOLA CEUSI Pf MELOCACTUS ALBJSPINUS Salm CEREUS CELSIANUS Orcutt Pilocereus celsianus Lem Rev Hort 1862, CEREUS CHRY® ACANTHUS Pilocereus chrysaeanthus Weber ex KS Scheiflw DAUTWITZII Orcutt Pilocereus dautwitzii Hge Gard Chron 1 -^ BIBLIOGRAPHY following- is a nearly complete of works pertaining to cacti; 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