HARRISIA. 



153 



Hammocks, Keys of Florida, and southern mainland 

 5able and Flamingo, collected by John K. Small, Novci 



Type from 



Torrey Simpson 



Miami 



from Pumpkin Key, grown at the cactus crarden of Mr 



little, if any, longer than the limb ; the 

 stems of this plant and its fruit are not 

 different from those of the type, but 

 are smaller, about 2 meters high. 



Figure 223 is from a photograpli 



taken by Mr. 

 Largo, Florida. 



on Key 



Fig. 223. — H 



simpsonn 



Fig. 224. — H 



taylori. 



Harrisia femowi 



1908. 



Cereiis pellucidus Grisebach, Cat. PL Cub. 116. 1866. Not C. pellucidus Otto, 1837. 



Plant 2.5 to 3 meters high; branches slender, about 2.^ cm. thick, light green, 9-ribbed, the ribs 

 not prominent, the depressions between them shallow; areoles about 2 cm. apart; spines 8 to 11, 

 light brown with blackish tips, the longer ones 6 cm. long; bud subglobose-ovoid, its scales sub- 

 tending and rather densely covered with tawny, curled woolly hairs i cm. long; flower nearly 2 dm. 

 long, its ovary and tube bearing oblong-lanceolate, acute scales i to 2 cm. long, subtending tufts of 

 long brown hairs; outer perianth-segments linear, acuminate, the inner white, spatulatc, entire, 



short-acuminate. 



Type locality: Between Rio Grande and Rio Ubero, Oriente, Cuba. 



Distribution: Dry parts of Oriente Province, Cuba. 



Plate XXIV, figure i, shows a flowering branch of the type plant from a painting made at 



the 



July 



Harrisia 



1908, 



Cereus taylori Vaupcl, Monatsschr. Kaktcenk. 23: 37. 1913 



i^ereus layiort vaupei, ivionaisscnr. rvuKiucuR.. ^^.^i- iy»j- 



Plant light green, branched above, 1.5 to 2 meters high, the branches divaricate-ascending, 

 rather stout, 4 to 5 cm. thick, 9-ribbed, the ribs rounded, the depressions between them rather deep; 



