916 OPUNTIACEAE 
hairs protruding from beneath: flowers faintly scented: longer inner sepals nar 
rowly linear, acuminate: petals = ds t of them exceeded by the longer sd 
oblaneeolate, erose near the apex, adly acuminate eae: ay slender- 
tipped: stamens ee ped i E 2 7.5 em. in ares s yellow, the 
scar at the apex abou in dia eeds 3 m o Sho e hammocks 
and shell-mounds, Tanpa Bayr e Tia, p the Ten "Phossand Tslands. 
2. H. Simpsonii Small. Plants 4 m. tall or nie scattered or in colonies, ter- 
restrial or often epiphytic, the stems sometimes vine-like, simple or individ- 
ually branched, 9- or 10-ridged: spines mostly 7 9 in each areola, slender, the 
longer ones of each cluster 1-2.5 em. long: young buds clothed with white 
hairs: hypanthium longer than the flower-limb, long-fu , P tly 
and coarsely ri , the swollen base clothed with broadly lanceolate, closel 
set or imbricate scales, with white hairs protruding from beneat scales 
of t ubular part he anthium rather nu us and close-set, very 
turgid, lanceolate, each with white hairs protruding fro ath: flowers 
inodor longer inner ain linear, 4.5— m g, minate: petals Msc. 
narrowly spatulate or rrowly cuneate-spatulate, erose near apex, each 
e 
abruptly narrowed into a short tip: stamens nearly erect: berry depressed- 
globose, about 6 em. in diameter, dull- pu usually with partly 1 scales, 
the scar at the apex des As X. n diamete Ae seeds ful long. 
[H. Brook (FI. S.) ]-—Hammo die an angrove sw E dc srrestrial 
or epiphytic, Cape a to ed ud ibo: and Madeira Bay region 
Fla. and Florida Keys 
. fragrans Small. Plants 5 m. tall or less, growing singly, sometimes 
approximate, but not in colonies, the stems erect, reclining, or clambering, 
prominently 10-12-ridged, the ridges more or less dM between the 
areolae, the grooves rather deep and sharp: areolae about 2 cm. apart, each 
with a "dense tuft of very short hairs on the upper side: eda puc 9-13 
in each areola, mostly grayish e yellowish at the tip, one of each areola 
eig aus the e others, mostly 2—4 em. long: young buds Mcd we whi te-hairy: 
buds about to a fully - em. iene om —20 em. long): hypanthium light- 
gre a longer than the flower-limb, a r-funnelform, scarcely ridged, the 
swollen base Sud pus b Or bene ud Hs separated scales, with long 
white hairs protruding from beneath them and very lax: scales of the tubular 
pa art of the hypanthium few and purs E slenderly posset not 
urgid, with a tuft of long white hair sepals very narrowly 
Poids slende rly acuminate: petals white or r pinkish, S det. e-tipped: 
ovary “cavity o oid: berry obovoid, about 6 em PUE e red, with tufts 
dis ng hairs persistent with the scale- Dus Bede arly 3.5 , lon ng.—Ham- 
oeks on high sand-dunes, kitehenmiddens, and eas Paes on Mosquito 
In et to Saint Lucie Sound, Fla. 
10. CEBPHALOCERBEUS Pfeiff. Succulent shrubs or trees with fluted 
stems and branches, the ridges supporting areolae, each of which supports a 
tuft of in| the spines of each areola arising from all parts of the tuft of 
wool and varying greatly in length. The bark at length ons Leaves ob- 
solete. ee diurnal, inconsp nie arising from the center of an areola. 
Hypanthium eampanulate, naked or scaly above. Sepals e o. e white 
or pale, broad. Berry more or less depressed sai Seeds numerous. ae ee 
40 species, tropical Ameriean.—Wint.-spr.— TREE-CACTI.— The two following 
species have a definite geologic on a Deeringit inhabits the Key 
Largo limestone, C. keyensis the Key West oólite. Where these two limestones 
meet on Big Pine Key the ranges of the two species come together. 
