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THE CACTACEAE. 



2 cm., this one is yellowish brown, darker above; the remaining spines are yellowish when young, 

 then become white, almost translucent, finally they turn gray and are knocked off.' (Translation 

 of Schumann's description.) 



Typ 



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EcHiNOPSis CATAMARCENSis Weber, Diet. Hort. Bois 471 



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stems simple, ellipsoid to shortly columnar, up to i meter high, grayish green; tibs 13 to 17, 

 high, somewhat undulate; radial spines 10, pale brown, subulate, somewhat curved; central spines 

 4, arranged in a single perpendicular row, somewhat curved; flowers supposed to be yellow. 



Type locality: Catamarca, Argentina. 



Distribution: Argentina. 



Weber gvj^sCereus catamarcensis (Diet. Hort. Bois 471) as a'synonym of this species. 



(3 s) 





25. JASMINOCEREUS gen. nov. 



Stems upright and tall with a definite cylindric trunk and a much branched top ; ribs numerous, 

 low; areoles circular, bearing felt and spines; flowers slender, salverform or perhaps funnelform, 

 the slender tube narrowly cylindric, the Umb broad, spreading; inner perianth-segments narrow, 

 yellow or brownish; stamens and style exserted; ovary bearing small spreading scales with small 

 tufts of wool in their axils ; fruit oblong, smooth, except the small scarious scales, these naked in their 

 axils; seeds minute, black. 



A monotypic genus of the Galapagos Islands. The name signifies jasmine-like cereus, 

 with reference to the flowers. 



Fig. 



212. 



Jasminocercus galapagensis. 



Jasminocereus galapagensis (W 



Cereus galapagensis Weber, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 5: 312. 1899 

 Cereus sclerocarpus Schumann in Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 38: 179. 



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