CEPIIALOCliRI^US. 



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long, numerous, light brown; flowering areoles confined to one side of the branch and near its top; 

 sometimes only on 3 ribs, producing abundant, long, white wool; flowers 5 to 6 cm. long; tube sliort 

 and thick, greenish below, red above; perianth-segments numerous, light pink, spreading, obtuse; 

 stamens scarcely exserted, dull yellowish white; style included; fruit red, subglobose, 3.5 cm. in' 

 diameter; seeds minute, shining, black. 



J. N. Rose in company with W. Now( 

 I West Indies, on Barbados. Seotcmbcr 



AtA 



is found only on the exposed hills near the ocean on the eastern side of the island. 



species 



Plate VI, figure 3, shows the top of 



Garden in flower in 19 16. 



specimen 



from 



same 



from 



Watts 



St. Andrew, February 9, 1919, communicated 



Fig. 64. — Cephalocereus nobilis. 



Fig. 65. — Cephalocereus harhadensis. 



26. Cephalocereus millspaughii Britton, Contr. U. vS. Nat. Herb. 12: 417- i9t>9- 



Cereiis millspaugliii Yimpc], Monatsschr. Kaktcciik. 23: 23. lyU- 



vStem branched, 2 to 6 meters high, 20 cm. thick at the base, the branches nearly erect, 8 to 

 .m. thick, pale grayish green, pruinose, 8 to 13-ribbed; ribs acutish, about as wide as high or a 

 e wider; areoles i to 2 ?m. apart; spines about 20, acicular, widely radiating, i to 2 cm. long, or 



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