The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 48.—Cephalocereus bahamensis. Fig. 49.—Cephalocereus bahamensis. 16. Cephalocereus deeringii Small, Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 18: 201. 1917. Plant slender, often becoming 10 meters tall, the stem erect, simple or with few erect, short orelongated fastigiate branches which are ascending or erect and appressed to the main stem, thebranches deep green, but sometimes rather light, usually 10-ribbed, sometimes 9-ribbed; areolescopiously short-hairy, the hairs rather persistent; spines acicular, 25 to 31 together, the
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 48.—Cephalocereus bahamensis. Fig. 49.—Cephalocereus bahamensis. 16. Cephalocereus deeringii Small, Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 18: 201. 1917. Plant slender, often becoming 10 meters tall, the stem erect, simple or with few erect, short orelongated fastigiate branches which are ascending or erect and appressed to the main stem, thebranches deep green, but sometimes rather light, usually 10-ribbed, sometimes 9-ribbed; areolescopiously short-hairy, the hairs rather persistent; spines acicular, 25 to 31 together, the longer ones1 cm. long or more; flowers opening in the afternoon, about 6 cm. long, elongate-campanulate,light green without; outer perianth-segments obovate, obtuse, rounded, or emarginate; innerperianth-segments 9 to 11 mm. long, clawless, oval, rounded at the apex, erose, scarcely narrowedat the base; anthers less than 2 mm. long; fruit much depressed, to 4 cm. in diameter, dark red;seeds about 2 mm. long, shining. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II. its ^-^-^v-f^ A clump of plants of Cefihalocereus deeringii on Lower Matacumbe Key, Florida. CEPHALOCEREUS. 39
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