280 THE CACTACEAE. 
_ Herb. 16: pl. 126, B, as Lophocereus australis; Mollers Deutsche Gart. 
Tat, a: eet 5, No. 8; Cyel Amer. Hort. Bailey 3: f. 1803; Oe Pa Gesam'. 
Kakteen f. 7, 8; Nachtr. f. 8; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. II: 10; 18: IOI, as : ocereus “6 O “ 
West Amer. Sci. 13: 16, as Cereus sargentianus; Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 16: pl. 4, 5:6 7, 8, 
as Cereus schottii; Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 16: pl. 125, B, as Lophocereus schottit; Thomas, 
Zimmerkultur Kakteen 17, as Pilocereus sargentianus. 
} } dd to illustrations: Reiche, 
On page 180, vol. m1, under Myrtillocactus geometrizans, a d ; 
Elem. Bot. 228. f. 164; Engler and Drude, Veg. Erde 13: f. 31; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 
25: 482. f.13; West Amer. Sci. 13: 15; Zeitschrift Sukkulenk. 1: 31, as Cereus geometrizans. 
On page 180, vol. I, under M yrtillocactus cochal, add to illustrations: Thomas, Zim- 
merkultur Kakteen 13, aS Cereus cochal. 
On page 183, vol. 11, insert the following: 
{2 2) 39. NEOABBOTTIA Britton and Rose, Smiths. Misc. Coll. 729: 2. 1921. 
\ i tus with a smooth, upright, terete trunk and a much branched top, the branches 
stronely winged or ribbed, normally from distal end of preceding branch, but sometimes from below 
tip and usually in the same plane; ribs thin and high, very spiny; flowers nocturnal, small, tubular, 
with a narrow limb, borne several together at distal end of a terminal branch from. a small, felte 
cephalium; perianth persisting on the ovary; perianth-tube and ovary bearing small scales with 
short wool and an occasional bristle in their axils; perianth-segments very small; throat of flower a 
little broadened at top, bearing many stamens; style slender; fruit oblong, turgid, nearly naked, 
deeply umbilicate; seed minute, black, muricate. 
Fics. 256, 257.—Flower and fruit of Neoabbottia paniculata. Natural size. 
Type species: Cactus paniculatus Lamarck. 
A monotypic genus of Hispaniola, dedicated to Dr. W. L. Abbott, a patron of natural 
history. 
1. Neoabbottia paniculata (Lamarck) Britton and Rose, Smiths. Misc. Coll. 72°: 3. 1921. 
Cactus paniculatus Lamarck, Encycl. 1: 540. 1783. 
Cereus paniculatus De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 466. 1828. 
Plant 6 to 10 meters high or higher; trunk woody, 30 cm. in diameter, the wood close-grained, 
yellowish white; bark of trunk 1.5 cm. thick, brown, not spiny in age, smooth; branches 4 to 6 cm. 
broad, strongly 4-ribbed, occasionally 6-ribbed or winged; ribs thin, 1.5 to 2.5 cm. high, their margins 
somewhat crenate, areoles borne at base of sinuses, 1.5 to 2 cm. apart; spines 12 to 20, acicular, brownish 
to gray, 2 cm. long or less; cephalium 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter, becoming elongated and angled; 
flowers straight, 5 cm. long, with a limb about 3 cm. broad, tube 6 to 7 mm. long, about 18 mm. 
in diameter, with walls 5 to 6 mm. thick; inner perianth-segments greenish white, short-oblong, 
about 1 cm. long, obtuse; throat 18 mm. long, covered with numerous filaments, these with a knee 
