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Title: The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 Rose, J. N. (Joseph Nelson), 1862-1928
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Publisher: Washington : Carnegie Institution of Washington
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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hes short and thick, 2 to 4 cm. in diameter 1. A. rhodanlha Branches long and slender, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter 2. A. penicillata 1. Arrojadoa rhodantha (Gurke). Cereus rhodanthus Giirke, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 18: 69. 1908.Low, i to 2 meters long, at first erect, afterwards branching and clambering; joints short,cylindric, 2 to 4 cm. in diameter; ribs 10 to 13, low; areoles small, approximate, usually less than 1cm. apart; spines at first brown, in age white, the central ones similar to the radials except a littlelonger, when young accompanied by some long cobwebby hairs; bristles at the tops of the jointslong, brown; flowers solitary at the upper areoles, forming in clusters of 12 to 14 at the tops ofbranches, pink, rigid, 3 to 4 cm. long; ovary and lower part of tube naked; uppermost scales andperianth-segments similar, obtuse; stamens numerous, included; fruit red, oblong to obovate, about2 cm. long. Type locality: Caatinga de Sao Raimundo, Piauhy, Brazil. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II
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M. E. Eaton del 1. Flowering branches of Rathbunia alamosensis. 2. Flowering branches of Rathbunia alamosensis. 3. Top of flowering branch of Borzicactus acanthurus. 4. Top of stem of Arrojadoa rhodantha. (All natural size.) ORKOeiCKIvlS. Distribution: Arid parts of Bahia andPiauhy, Brazil. Plate xxv, figure 4, shows the floweringtop of a plant obtained by Dr. Rose nearJoazeiro, Brazil, in 1915, which flowered soonafterward in the New York Botanical Garden;plate xxvii, figure 1, shows a fruiting branchof a plant collected by Dr. Rose near Salgada,Bahia, in 1915. 2. Arrojadoa penicillata (Giirke). Cereus penicillatus Giirke, Monatsschr. Kak-teenk. 18: 70. 1908. Plant slender, 1 to 2 meters high, muchbranched, often bushy, the branches 1 to 1.5 cm.in diameter; ribs usually 10, low; areoles small,close together; spines several; radial spines short,spreading; central spines longer, often 2 to 3 cm.long; pseudocephalium at the top of the joint2 to 3 cm. in diameter, made up of long brownbr

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