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Illustrations: 



S. Nat. Herb 



12: pi. 61, as Cereus jamacaru; Lemaire, Ic. 



IS perrottetianus; Maza and Roig, Fl. Cuba pi. 23, as Cereiis lepidotus. 



""^ Text-figure i is from a photograph of the plant taken by Marshall A. Howe at San- 



turce, Porto Rico ; text-figure 2 shows a flower and text-figure 3 a longitudinal section of 



the same drawn by Miss H. A. Wood at Hope Gardens, Jamaica; text-figure 4 shows a 



cted by Dr. Rose near Caracas, V< 



hildmannianus Schumann in Marti us 



1890. 



Plant tall, up to 5 meters high, often much branched; ribs 5 or 6, high, thin, rounded, green 

 or often with large yellow patches along the sides; areoles distant, large, at first without spines, 

 afterward a few developing ; flower elongated, funnelform, 20 to 23 cm. long; inner perianth-segments 

 white, broad and obtuse; ovary naked, 2.5 to 3 cm. long. 



Type locality: State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

 Distribution: Eastern Brazil. 





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Fio. 5. — Cereus hildmannianus. 



Fig. 6. — Cereus hildmannianus. 



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seems to be a common yard and 



forms 



from 



moister 



Illustrations: Martius, Fl. Bras. 4^: pi. 41, f- i ; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 



lext-hgure 5 is from a photograph taken by PaulG. Russell near Rio de J 



)i5; text-figure 6 is from a photograph taken by Dr. J. N.Mills at Rio de Ji 



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:anus 



1837. 



sharp 



f iX;r ° ord1r:„'i£ ^ 'il^tr 'IL I- f!'™S'L-?P--0- 3 -. Wgh, separated by deep 



Type locality: Porto Alegre, Brazil. 

 Distribution: Southern Brazil and Paraguay. 



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