The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . greenish; inner segments pure white, tipped with a hair-like cusp 5 ; filaments white; anthers oblong, yellow; pistil cream-colored; fruit subglobose, yellow, about6 cm. in diameter, edible. Type locality: Cuba. Distribution: Central and western Cuba and Isle of Pines. The names Cereus eriophorus laeteviridis and C. repandus laetevirens (Salm-Dyek, 335. 1834), both unpublished, may belong here. The flower-buds, copiously covered with bright white wool, are conspicuous. Plants grown in the Habana B
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . greenish; inner segments pure white, tipped with a hair-like cusp 5 ; filaments white; anthers oblong, yellow; pistil cream-colored; fruit subglobose, yellow, about6 cm. in diameter, edible. Type locality: Cuba. Distribution: Central and western Cuba and Isle of Pines. The names Cereus eriophorus laeteviridis and C. repandus laetevirens (Salm-Dyek, 335. 1834), both unpublished, may belong here.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. Illustratian: Pfeiffer and Otto, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. 1: pi. 22, as Cereus eriophorus. Plate xviii, figure 1, shows the flower of a plant from Mariel, Cuba, painted at theNew York Botanical Garden, July 12, 1912; figure 2 shows a fruiting branch of a plant sentby 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 stems erect, reclining or clambering prominently, 10 to 12-ridged,the ridges more or less depressed between the areoles, the grooves rather deep and sharp; areolesabout 2 cm. apart; spines acicular, 9 to 13 in each areole, mostly grayish and yellowish at the tip,one of ^ach areole longer than the others, mostly 2 to 4 cm. long; young buds copiously white-hairy;flowers 12 to 20 cm. long, odorous; ovary bearing subulate or lanceolate-subulate scales subtendinglong white hairs; scales of the flower-tube few and remote, subulate, slenderly acuminate, not turgid, 15° THE CACTACEAE. with a tuft of long white hairs in each axil; outer perianth-segments very narrowly linear, slenderlyacuminate; inner perianth-segments white or pinkish, spatulate, caudate-tipped; fruit obovoid orglobose, about 6 cm. in diameter, du
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