06.78 
Selenicsreus 
Flowering May 17, 1912; stems light olive green, 4 and 5-ribbed, usually 
the latter, 2 cm. thick and less; ribs low, rounded, bearing areoles at 
intervals of 2 cm. and less; areoles circular, 3 mm. and less in diameter 
bearing small covering ot dirty a^id spines, one central, 
2.7 mm., stout and sharp; '"flower 26 cm. long; calyx tube 14 cm. long, 1.5 
tinged with green, 
to 4 cm. in diameter, light brown madder according to Winsor and Newton’s 
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Plater Colors Chart, slightly lighter near top of tube; part around ovary 
covered with bracts in 16 rows, spiral to the right, and part above bear- 
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inp- bracts in 6 spiral rows turning to the right, going completely around 
tube in entire length; bracts having areoles bearing white ?/ool, vmite 
weak bristles, 6 mm. long and less, and white hairs 2 cm. long and less, 
which bxs grow out from upper central part of slight longitudiiial en- 
largement of the tube; bracts slightly darker than tube, 2 iimi. wid§ , 5 to 
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