HARRISIA. 



153 



Found on Hammocks, Keys of Florida, and southern mainland coast. Type from 

 between Cape Sable and Flamingo, collected by John K. Small, November 29, 1916. 



The species is dedicated to Charles Torrey Simpson, naturalist, long resident in Florida. 



Flowers of a plant from Pumpkin Key, grown at the cactus garden of Mr. Charles 



Deering, Miami, Florida, and at the New York Botanical Garden, have the flower-tube 



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 photograph 

 taken by Mr. C. L. Pollard on Key 

 Largo, Florida. 



FIG. 223. Harrisia simpsonii. 



FIG. 224. Harrisia taylori. 



8. Harrisia fernowl Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 562. 1908. 



Cereus pellncidus Grisebach, Cat. PI. Cub. 116. 1866. Not C. pellucidiis Otto, 1837. 



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

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

 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, spatulate, 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 New York Botanical Garden, July 9, 1912. 



817. Harrisia taylori Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 565. 1908. 

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



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; 



