The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 34.—Cephalocereus polylophus. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II. 1. Flowering stem of Cephalocereus pentczdrophorus. 2. Top of stem of Cephalocereus gounellei. 3. Top of stem of Cephalocereus bahamensis, with flower. 4. Fruit of Cephalocereus deeringii. (All natural size.) \ CEPHALOCEREUS. 33 9. Cephalocereus euphorbioides (Haworth). Cereus euphorbioides Haworth, Suppl. PI. Succ. 75. 1819. ia, ins euphorbioides Sprengel, Syst. 2: 496, 1825. Pilocereus euphorbioides Rumpler in F6rster, Handb. Cact. ed, 1885. Pla
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 34.—Cephalocereus polylophus. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II. 1. Flowering stem of Cephalocereus pentczdrophorus. 2. Top of stem of Cephalocereus gounellei. 3. Top of stem of Cephalocereus bahamensis, with flower. 4. Fruit of Cephalocereus deeringii. (All natural size.) \ CEPHALOCEREUS. 33 9. Cephalocereus euphorbioides (Haworth). Cereus euphorbioides Haworth, Suppl. PI. Succ. 75. 1819. ia, ins euphorbioides Sprengel, Syst. 2: 496, 1825. Pilocereus euphorbioides Rumpler in F6rster, Handb. Cact. ed, 1885. Plant 3 to 5 meters high, columnar, usually simple; ribs 8,acute, somewhat crenate; areoles less than 1 cm. apart, white-felted; spines few, sometimes only 4 or 5, and then only 1 prom-inent, dark brown, porrcct, about 1 cm. long; ovary 2 cm. long,spirally tuberculatc; tubercles bearing triangular scales sparinglywoolly in their axils, with 1 to 4 yellow spines; perianth-tube fun-nelform, campanulate, cm. long; outer perianth-segments 15mm. long, fleshy, reflexed, brown or reddish brown, the innerones 2 cm. long, reflexed, rose-red; f
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