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6 to 7 cm. thick, the base flat, the top bhmtly pointed, strongly tubercled when young, the tubercles 

 low-conic, about 4 mm. high, about 1.5 cm. from tip to tip, bearing a deciduous triangular-lanceo- 

 late scale 6 to 8 mm. long, becoming confluent, the fruit finally smooth or nearly so, yellow. 



Type locality: British Islands of America. 



Distribution: Jamaica. 



The following names were referred to Cereus repandus as synonyms by Schumann : 



Cereus tinci Todaro (Ind. Sem. Hort. Panorm. 39. 1857 ; C. cossyrensis Tineo in Todaro, 

 Ind. Sem. Hort. Panorm. 39. 1857), said to have come from Brazil, and Cereus erectus 

 Pfciffcr (Enum. Cact. 95. 1837), stated definitely to have come from Mexico. 



Illustrations: Trew, PI, Select, pi. 14, as Cereus etc.; Loudon, Kncycl. PI. 411. f. 

 6862; Edwards's Bot. Reg. 4: pi. 336, as Cactus repandus; De CandoUe, Mem. Mus. Hist. 

 Nat. Paris 17: pi. 13, as Cereus repandus; Pfeiffer and Otto, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. i: pi. 

 23, as Cereus undatus. 



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Fig. 222. — Flower of Ilarrisia gracilis. 



last illustration above cited. 



Fig. 22 1. — Harrisia gracilis. 



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Plate XX, figure i , shows a fruiting branch of a 

 plant in the the New York Botanical Garden. 

 Figure 221 is from a photograph taken in Jamaica, con- 

 tributed by William Harris; figure 222 is copied from the 



7. Harrisia simpsonii Small, sp. no v. 



Plants up to 6 meters high, erect, reclining, or spreading, simple or more or less branched; ribs 

 8 to io;areoles i to 2 cm. apart; spines 7 to 14. gray when mature, i to 2.5 cm. long; buds white- 

 hairy; flowers 12 to 17 cm. long; scales of the ovary lanceolate-subulate, subtending few white hairs 

 10 mm. long or less; scales of the flower-tube lanceolate, distant; outer perianth-segments linear; 

 mner perianth-segments spatulate, acute or acuminate, erose-denticulate ; fruit depressed-globose, 

 orange-red, 4 to 6 cm. in diameter. 



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