CEPHALOCERCUS. 



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Type localii 

 Distribution 



from 



Garden with the name Ccrcus alhi- 



spiniis Salm-Dyck, is strikingly similar to Ccphalocci 



In developing, the perianth carries flecks of wool with it from the dense white cusliioa 

 at the areole ; the perianth-tube bears several distant scales passing into the numerous outer, 



gments; mner perianth-segments 



mm 



stamens 



herbarium specimens 



Dr. Rose collected Hving 



Figure 42 is from 

 from Machado Portell 

 and figure 45 its fruit. 



Jahrb, Engl 



Fig. 44. 

 Fig. 45. 



Flower of Cephaloceretis leiicostele. X0.7. 

 Fruit of same. Xo.7- 



reus smithianus sp. no v. 



Fig. 46. 

 Fio. 47. 



Flower of C. smilhlamis. X0.7. 

 r'niit of snme. X0.7, 



Stems weak and slender, 4 to 7 cm. in diameter, simple or much branched, erect or more or 



between the areolcs: arcolcs 



rather large, felted; radial spines short, white, acicular, i cm. long or less; central spines several, 



first 



8 cm 

 scales 



iimer perianth-segments 



scales- fruit ovoid, 3 to 4 cm. in diameter, red, splitting on one side when mature; arcoles on the 

 fruit each represented by a horizontal fine 8 mm. long, subtended by a minute brown scale ; pulp 

 white; seeds black. 



Mrs. J 



type) 



Smith 



W. G. Freeman and Professor T. E. Hazen on Patos Island, Trinidad, a few miles 



March 



form 



named for Major Cornelius C. Smith 



and assisted Dr. Rose during some of his excursions in northern Venezuela in 191 6. 



Figure 43 is from a photograph of a plant brought by Dr. Rose to the Nev 

 Botanical Garden from Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, in 1916; figure 46 shows the 

 and figure 47 the fruit, collected by Dr. Rose between Caracas and La Guayra. 



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