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 the two appeared to be different' when first studied, but subsequent observations indicate 

 that they may not be distinct; additional evidence is needed to determine this question. 



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Plants 6 meters high or less, erect or reclining, simple or branched; ribs 9 to 11, rounded; areoles 

 1.5 to 3 cm. apart; spines 7 to 9, acicular, mostly i cm. long or less, sometimes longer, gray with 

 brown tips when mature, pink when young; flower-buds densely brown-hairy; flowers slightly 

 odorous, about 15 cm. long; scales of the ovary and flower- tiifee lanceolate, subtending short brown 

 hairs ; outer perianth-segments linear, acuminate, the inner oblanceolate, white, caudate-acuminate, 

 erose-denticulate; fruit globular, yellow, 6 to y.-; cm. in diameter. 



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the longer 4 to 5 cm. long, ascending; flowers about 2 dm. long, the slender greenish tube about as 

 long as the limb ; ovary about i cm. in diameter, tubercled, bearing short subulate leaves, the areoles 

 with short, white hairs; perianth-tube bearing distant, hnear, acuminate scales i to 3 cm. long, the 

 areoles with white hairs i to 1.5 cm. long; outer perianth-segments linear, greenish, acuminate, 

 the inner somewhat broader, white, acute or acuminate; fruit yellow, depressed-globose, tubercled 

 when young, nearly smooth when old, 6 to 7 cm. in diameter 



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 central one^loLirtKnTi^'.'T'^r"' tuberculate, bright green; spines 6 to 10, subulate the 

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