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apart; radial spines 6 or 7, 5 to lo cm. long, grayish; central spine i ; flowers small, yellowish green; 

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Type locality: Cerro Colorado, near Tehuacan, Mexico. 



Distribution: Puebla and Oaxaca, Mexico. 



The plant is known as chichipe, or, according to Dr. C. A. Purpus, chichibe. The 

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Illustrations: Bull. Soc. AccHm. France 52: f. 7, as Cereus chichipe; Monatsschr. Kak- 

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