17 
ii.iI 4.il • 
long, tapering to tip, almost enclosing areoles; bracts grading 
into sepals sligiitly lighter colored at base of outer roYi, becoming brown 
to dark bro?/n at tips; sepals about 11.5 cm. long, 6 imii. wide and less, 
long acuminate, inner ones lighter colored; petals pure white, about 2 crn 
* « 
7 
shorter than sepals, spatulate , apiculate; ovary almost &4^^ c oi lar , 8 cm. 
in diameter; tube proper 2,3 cm 
Ions, 5 mm. in diameter; stamens numerous 
filaments pale green, except white at upper part; anthers light pale yellov/ 
style same color as filaments; stigma lobes 20, umbraculiforiri, lemon yellov; 
Collected by Dr, Ed, Palmer April 30, 1910 at Panuco, S.W. of Tampico, 
Mexico. See 07.276 (photo 
585, 
582), a Selenicereus from Barranca de Zacu 
ap an , Ve r a Cruz, 
Mexico. 
