CEREUS. 



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This species has long been in cultivation in the New York Botanical Garden under the 

 name of Ccrcus alacriportanus, where it has frequently flowered. It differs somewhat from 

 the description of C. paraguayensis by Schumann in the color of the spines and closeness 

 of the areoles. 



Ccrcus bonaricnsis is referred here by Forster (Handb. Cact. 388. 1846) as a syn- 

 onym. Sweet also used the name (Hort. Brit. ed. 3. 283. 1839) but does not associate it 

 with this species. 



Illustrations: Chodat, Veg. Paraguay i : f . 90, as C. paraguaycnsis; Karsten, Deutsche 

 Fl. f. 501, No. 7. 



Plate n, figure i, shows the plant in the New York Botanical Garden above referred 

 to, which flowered in April 1915. 



FIG. 7. Cereus validus. 



4. Cereus validus Haworth, Phil. Mag. 10: 420. 1831. 



FIG. 8. Cereus tetragonus. 



Ct'reus forbesii Otto in Forster, Handb. Cact. 398. 1846.* 

 Cereus hankeanus Weber in Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 88. 1897. 

 Piptanthocereus forbesii Riccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. Palermo 8: 228. 1909. 

 Piptanthocerens hankeanus Riccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. Palermo 8: 229. I99- 

 Piptanthocereus labouretianus Riccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. Palermo 8: 231. 1909. 

 Piptanthocereus validus Riccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. Palermo 8: 234. 1909. 



Shrubby, 2 meters high or more, somewhat branched, the branches 5 to 8 cm. thick, glaucous 

 when young; ribs 4 to 8, compressed, obtuse; radial spines 5, short, stout, i to 2 cm. long, mostly 



*The date of publication of this name is usually given as 1845; this reference, however, is only to the use of the 

 name, without a description, in a publication of that date. 



