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included, the inner row appressed against the style; style creamy white, 6 cm. long, exserted 

 beyond the perianth-segments; fruit 4 cm. in diameter, flattened above, dark wine-colored; seeds 

 smooth, black, shining. 



Type locality: Near Hab 

 Distribution: Coastal re^ 

 This species was recorde 



Matanzas and Hab 



Cephaloce 



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from a photograph of the plant obtained by Brother Leon at the type locahty. 



18. Cephalocereus keyensis Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 416. 1909. 



Cerens keyensis Vaupcl, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23: 23. 1913. 



Plant 5 to 6 meters high, little branched, the branches almost erect, 5 to 6 cm. in diameter, the 

 trunk up to 12 cm. thick; ribs 9 or 10, narrow, separated by deep grooves, bluish green, very glaucous; 



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narrowly campanulate, 6 cm. long, with a strong odor of garlic when opening in the late afternoon 

 or evening, odorless the next morning; outer perianth-segments oblong-spatulate, bluntly pointed, the 

 inner acutish; style scarcely exserted; fruit depressed-globose, reddish, 3.5 cm. thick, about 2 cm. high. 



l^iG- 55.— Cephalocereus keyensis 



Fig. 56. — Flower of C. keyensis. 

 Fig. 57. — Fruit of same. X0.7. 



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Fig. 58. — Flower of Cepha 

 locereus monoclunos. 



Type locality: Hammock, Key West, Florida. 



Distribution: Key West, Big Pine Key, and Boca Chica Key. 



The plant is now very nearly exterminated on Key West, owing to the necessity foi 

 military purposes during the war with Germany of clearing the hammock in which it grew 

 Dr. Small succeeded in establishing it in flourishing: masses in the cactus warden of Mr 



Miami 



Illustration: Journ. N, Y. B 



Figure 55 is from a photograph of the type plant taken by Marshall A. Howe; fig 

 56 shows its flower and figure 57 its fruit. 



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