. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. HARRISIA. 149 1. Harrisia eriophora (Pfeiffer) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 562. 1908. * (?) Cereus cubensis Zuccarini in Seitz, Allg. Gartenz. 2: 244. 1834. Cereus eriophonis Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 94. 1837. Plant dm. high or less, the young joints bright green, the main stem 4 cm. in diameter or more, the branches nearly as thick, erect or ascending, 8 or g-ribbed, the ribs prominent, the depres- sions between them rather deep; areoles 2 to 4 cm. apart; spines 6 to 9, the longer ones to 4 cm. long, light brown with nearly black tips;
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. HARRISIA. 149 1. Harrisia eriophora (Pfeiffer) Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 562. 1908. * (?) Cereus cubensis Zuccarini in Seitz, Allg. Gartenz. 2: 244. 1834. Cereus eriophonis Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 94. 1837. Plant dm. high or less, the young joints bright green, the main stem 4 cm. in diameter or more, the branches nearly as thick, erect or ascending, 8 or g-ribbed, the ribs prominent, the depres- sions between them rather deep; areoles 2 to 4 cm. apart; spines 6 to 9, the longer ones to 4 cm. long, light brown with nearly black tips; buds ovoid, sharp-pointed, their scales subtending tufts of bright white-woolly hairs i to cm. long; flowers 12 to 18 cm. long; scales of the tube lanceolate, acuminate, appressed, i to cm. long, subtending long white hairs; outer perianth-segments pale pink outside, the outermost greenish; inner segments pure white, tipped with a hair-like cusp 5 mm. long; filaments white; anthers oblong, yellow; pistil cream-colored; fruit subglobose, yellow, about 6 cm. in diameter, edible. Type locality: Cuba. Distribution: Central and western Cuba and Isle of Pines. The names Cereus eriophorus lactcviridis and C. repandus laetevirens (Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 335. 1834), both unpublished, may belong here. The flower-buds, copiously covered with bright white wool, are conspicuous. Plants grown in the Habana Botanical Garden, formerly referred to Cereus undatus (Bull. Torr. Club 35:564), apparently belong to this species. Illustration: Pfeiffer and Otto, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. i: pi. 22, as Cereus eriophorus. Plate xvni, figure i, shows the flower of a plant from Mariel, Cuba, painted at the New York Botanical Garden, July 12, 1912; figure 2 shows a fruiting branch of a plant sent by C. F. Baker in 1907. Figure 215 is from a photograph taken by C. S. Gager at Mariel, Cuba, in FIG. 216.—Harrisia fragrans. 2. Harrisia fragrans Small, sp. nov. Plants 5 meters tall or less, the ste
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