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THE CACTACEAE. 



Hortus Mortolensis 



1912). 



grandifi 



barbadensis is also given by 



Berger. 



grandijiorus are almost 



which differ essentially only in vegetative characters and armament. 



'illustrations: Andrews, Bot. Rep. 8: pi. 508; De Candolle, PI. Succ. i : pi. 52; Des- 

 courtilz, Fl. Med. Antill. i : pi. 65; Loddiges, Bot. Cab. 17: pl- 1625; Loudon, Encycl. Pi. 

 f. 6873, as Cactus grandijiorus; Cact. Journ. i : 125; Curtis's Bot. Mag. 62: pl. 3381 ; Diet. 

 Card. Nicholson i : f . 407; Gartenflora 53:68, 401; Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 34; 

 Miller, Icones pl. 90; Rumpler, Sukkulenten f. 69; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 10: 60; Cycl. 



all as Cereus grandijiorus ; Trew, Pl. Bhret 

 Journ. 1 : 79, as Cereus grandijiorus majc 



York 



from Cuba by C. F. Baker in 1907, with germinated 



figure I, shows a flowering branch, figure 2 shows the tip of a branch, and figure 3 its fruit. 



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2. 



urbanianus (Giirke and Weinga 



vS. Nat. Herb. 16 



242 



1913- 



Cereus urhanianus Giirke and Wcingart, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 4: 158. 1904. 

 Selenicereus maxonii Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 430. 1909. 

 Cereus roseantis Vaupel, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23: 27. 1913. 

 Cereus paradisiacus Vaupel, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23: 37. 1913- 



Stems light green, but often becoming deep purple throughout, often 3 cm. in diameter; ribs 

 4 or 5, rarely 3 or 6, rather prominent but less so on the older branches; areoles small, white; spines 

 I cm. long or less, brownish; reflexed 

 bristles or hairs from the lower part of 

 the areoles several, white, longer than 

 the spines; flowers 20 to 30 cm. long; 

 uppermost scales and outer perianth- 

 segments narrow, brown to orange, paler 

 within ; inner perianth-segments spat- 

 ulate to oblanceolate, the upper part 

 more or less serrated, the very broad 

 apex sometimes apiculate or entire and 

 acuminate, pure white; stamens and 

 style yellowish green, longer than the 

 inner perianth-segments; flower-tube 17 

 cm. long, reddish brown, its areoles and 

 those of the ovary bearing long, white 

 hairs. 



lola. 



Type locality: Haiti. 

 Distribution: Cuba and Hispan- 



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appar 



Small, escaped from cult 

 Halendale, Florida, are, 

 referable to this species. 



Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kak- 

 teenk. 16: 137, as Cereus urhanianus; 

 Bltihcnde Kakteen 3:pl. 153, 154, as 

 Cereus paradisiacus. 



Plate XXXIV shows a flowering 

 branch of a plant collected by N. L. 

 Britton and J. F. Cowell at El Cobre, 

 Cuba, in 1912. 



Figs. 273 and 274.— Branch and fruit of Selenicereus coniflorus 



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