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CLUISTOCACTUS. 



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Through the kindness of Dr. J 



Domingucz, 



mitted to bri 



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specimens 



Among 



flowers were preserved. 



much larger than those of C smaragdifl 

 These may be described as follows: 

 i-segments apiculate; inner pcrianth-sc 



Unfortunately, only 



6 to 



7 cm. long, 



stamens 



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Department of Santa Catalina, altitude 3,400 to 4,300 meters, 

 probably an undescribed species, but it deserves further study. 



The name Cereus coluhrinus smaragdiflorus Weber (Diet. He 

 formal publication, is impHed, but the name was not actually t 

 Kakteenk. 15: 122. 1905). 



It is 



I R94), without 



Monatsschr 



15: 123, both as 



agdifl 



Figure 248 is from a photograph of an Argentine specimen communicated 

 Spegazzini as typical. 



3. Cleistocactus anguinus (Giirke). 



Cereus anguinus Gurke, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 17: 166. 1907- 



Branches decumbent; ribs 10 or 11, low; radial spines 18 to 22 grayish but brownish at base 

 and apex, slender; central spines i or 2, stouter than the radials, yellowish; flowers somewhat one- 

 sided, tubular, 7 cm. long, orange-yellow, 7-5 cm. long; stamens cxserted. 



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Type locality: Paraguay. 



Distribution: Paraguay. ' , , .r ^r 1 ^ ^ • 1 /^ 1 



We have studied a small plant in the collection of the New York Botanical Garden 



received from the Berlin Botanical Garden in 1914; vegetatively 

 cactus haumannii. We also refer here a plant collected by J. A. 



Shafer at Paraguavi, 



March 



DESCRIPTION 



Mens 



904 



Cereus laniceps Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 93- 1897- 



flowers from a sin/e rib, 3-5 -^ }^:-^t:^';:k 1^'^mS:^ UwIfcXtcd 



300 



Soc. Nice 44 



904 



Cereus parvisetus Otto in Pfeiffer. Enum. Cact. 79- 1837. 



with plants of that genus. 



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