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TH^ CACTAC^AS. 



24. Cephalocereus nobilis (Haworth) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S: Nat. Herb, 12: 418. 1909. 



Ceretis nobilis Haworth, Syn. PI. Succ. 179. 1812. 



Cactus strictus Willdenow, Enum. Suppl. 32. 1813. Not C. stricfus TIaworth, 1803. 



Cactus haworthii Sprengel, Syst. 2: 495. 1825. 



Cactus niger Salm-Dyck in Sprengel. Syst. 2: 495. 1825. 



Cereiis strictus Dc Candolle, Prodr. 3: 465. 1828. 



Cereus haworthii De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 465. 1828. 



Cereus awrewi Salm-Dyck in De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 465. 1828. 



Cereus curtisii Otto in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 81. 1837, 



Cereus lutescens Salm-Dyck in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 84. 1837. 



Cereus violaceus Lem^ire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 57. 1839. 



Cereus nigricans Lem^re, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 57. 1839. 



Pilocereus curtisii Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1844. 24. 1845, 



Pilocereus consolei Lemaire, Rev. Hort. 1862: 427. 1862. 



Pilocereus haworthii Console in Lemaire, Rev. Hort. 1862: 428. 1862. 



Pilocereus nigricans Sencke in Lemaire, Illustr. Hoit. 13: Misc. 20. 1866. 



Pilocereus lutescens Rumpler in Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 675. 1885. 



Pilocereus strictus Rumpler in Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 687. 1885. 



Pilocereus nobilis Schumann in Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 36\ 181. 1894 



Pilocereus strictus consolei Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 190. 1897. 



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Plant much branched and spreading, the ultimate branches slender, erect, green, shining when 

 young, not at all glaucous, 8 to lo-ribbed; areoles about i cm. apart, at first .producing only a little 

 wool and this appressed against the ribs, but wool in flowering areoles very dense but short, white; 

 spines up to 3.5 cm. long, acicular, at first yellow, soon brown; flower-buds obtuse or nearly truncate- 

 flovyers 4 to 6, cm. long; upper scales and outer perianth-segments broad, rounded at apex; inner 

 perianth-segments purple; style exserted; fruit depressed-globose. 



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 lowmg Hooker, who onginally pubUshed it as from Grenada, while Pfeififer and Otto (Abbild. 

 Beschr. Cact. i : pi. 1 1) give New Granada also as its original habitat. 



Cereus aureus pallidior Salm-Dyck (Hort. Dyck. 63. 1834), given by name o-^" - 

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t. 3:4. 1822) and C. niger graa/ior Salm-Dyck (Hort. Dyck. 63. 

 lere. Cereus trichacanthus (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 

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Plant light green, tall, 3 to 6 meters high, with ascending or spreading columnar branches ■ ribs 

 usually 8 or 9. h.gh, separated by acute interva l^^^redJ^a^^pa^^sng"ci^^^^^^^^^^ \ "m. 



(Rev. Hort. II. 4: 289. 1845), a new species ba«ed on nlamf ^.^f ( l,^^^-' Neumann described Pilocereus niger 

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article is signed by Neumann and, therefore, he should be 3f the author S ?h^ n '''' ^^%T "f ?" ^"^""' ^-"^ '}'^ 

 makes it a synonym of Cereus ni.er, which it is not, nor sSri^brrSd^J^iTpInt Js' t i^^rsl^rnn. ^^" 



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