IS 2 



TIIIv CACTACKAE. 



6 to 7 cm. thick, the base ilat, the lup bluntly pointed, strongly tuberclcd when young, the tubercles 

 low-conic, about 4 nun. high, about 1.5 cm. from tip to tip, bearing a deciduous triangular-lanceo- 

 late scale (i to S mm. long, becoming confluent, the fruit finally smooth or nearly so, yellow. 



7"r/v lo<\ility: British Islands of America. 



Distribution: Jamaica. 



The following names were referred to Ccrcits re pan Jus as synonyms by Schumann: 



( \-icns tinci Todaro (Ind. Sem. Hort. Panorm. 39. 1857 ; C. cossyrensis Tineo in Todaro, 

 Ind. Sem. Hort. Panorm. 39. 1857), said to have come from Brazil, and Ccrcus ercctits 

 Pfeiffer (Enum. Cact. 95. 1837), stated definitely to have come from Mexico. 



Illustrations: Trew, PL Select, pi. 14, as Ccrcus etc.; Loudon, Encycl. PI. 411. f. 

 6862; Edwards's Bot. Reg. 4: pi. 336, as Cactus rcpandus; De Candolle, Mem. Mus. Hist. 

 Nat. Paris 17: pi. 13, as ('crcus rcfuiinliis; Pfeiffer and Otto, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. i: pi. 

 23, as Ccrcus undatus. 



FIG. 221. Hurrisia Kruciliv 



Plate xx, figure i , shows a fruiting branch of a 

 plant in the the New York Botanical Garden. 

 Figure 221 is from a photograph taken in Jamaica, con- FlG - ^-i ? ier of iiumsia graciiis. 

 tributed by William Harris; figure 222 is copied from the last illustration above cited. 



7. Harrisia simpsonii Small, sp. nov. 



Plants up to 6 meters high, erect, reclining, or spreading, simple or more or less branched; ribs 

 8 to io;areoles i to 2 cm. apart; spines 7 to 14, gray when mature, i to 2.5 cm. long; buds white- 

 hairy; flowers 12 to 17 cm. long; scales of the ovary lanceolate-subulate, subtending few white hairs 

 10 mm. long or less; scales of the flower-tube lanceolate, distant; outer perianth-segments linear; 

 inner perianth-segments spatulate, acute or acuminate, erose-denticulate; fruit depressed-globose, 

 orange-red, 4 to 6 cm. in diameter. 



