CEPHALOCEREUS. 



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Type locality: Certao, Pernambuco, Brazil. 

 Distribution: Semi-arid parts of Pernambuco and Bahia 

 This species is very 



common 



known as chique-chique. The town Chique Chique on the Sao Francisco River takes its 

 name from this plant. Several collections of this plant were made by Dr. Rose in Bahia 

 in 1915 (Nos. 19945, 19846, and 19289). 



Fig. 40. — Cephalocereus gounellei 



The 



Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk 

 etationsbilder 6: pi. 15, as Pilocereus setosus. 



as Cereus sclosus; Veg- 



of this genus. 



J 



Plate IV, figure 2, shows the top of a plant collected by Dr. Rose near 

 eiro, Bahia, in 1915. Figure 40 is a nearby view of a good-sized plant 



H 



zehntneri 



Low, much branched, and spreading ; branches 3 to 4 cm. m diameter, about 

 9-ribbed, more or less tubercled ; areoles i to 2 cm. apart, long-hairy when young; 

 spines often 30 or more, only slightly spreading, all acicular and bright yellow the 

 centrals similar to the radials or a little longer, the longer ones 3 to 4 cm long; 

 flowering areoles producing with the flowers long tufts of white wool ; flowers slender, 

 tubular, 6 to 7 cm. long, white to hght cream-colored; inner perianth-segments 

 oblong, obtuse; style slender, glabrous, cone-shaped at base; ovary naked. 



Fu;. 41. — I'Mowrr 

 of C. /.ehnlncri. 

 X0.6. 



Collected by Leo Zehntner, from the Serra de Tiririca, Bahia, Brazil, November 191 7. 



similar in habit to the one from J 



above, 

 chique 



common 

 A-ith Dr. 



