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about 2 dm. apart; ribs usually 9 or 10, rather low for this genus, about i cm, high; areoles 5 to 15 

 cm. apart, small; spines numerous, gray, acicular, the longest ones 5 cm. long; flowers nocturnal, 

 narrowly funnelform, 7 to 8 cm. long, the limb 2.5 to 3 cm. broad, dark green except tips of inner 

 perianth-segments; ovary bearing a few small ovate scales with a little felt in their axils; fruit dark 

 red (occasionally white), oblong, 3 to 4 cm. long, with white flesh; seeds dull black, tuberculate 



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Type locality: Tropical America, 

 Distribution: Curagao, Aruba, and Bonaire. 



Schurnann (Kngler and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3^^: 181) has confused this species with 

 CepJialocereus lanuginosus and has published it under Pilocereus repandus. < 



Common on Curagao, where it often 

 grows in thickets, sometimes forming the 

 dominant feature of the landscape and there 

 know^n as kadoesji and breebee. 



Figure 18 shows a fruit of a plant on 



Cura<jao; figure 19 is from a photograph of 



the same plant taken by Dr. Britton and Dr. 

 Shafer in 19 13. 



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repandus. Xo.6. 



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margaritensis Johnston 



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fpines aboutio Lk^^^^^^^^ /ni^S^f' n" ''^^^ !P°<=^ "1° -5, somewhat swollen at base; radii 



tLe S^C^i the ra'diik" ' ° ^,"^; ^"rt^^'^f'S^ °' '^^'i'"'^' '^^f^'' ^Pi""" to 3, stouter and 

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r:);/,.Zoca/z7j; El Valle, Margarita Island, Venezuela. 

 Utstnbution: Known only from Margarita Island. 





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EREUS DE.NECKEI Ehrcnberg, Bot. Zeit. 2 : 835. 1844 



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