The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . PI. Succ. 183. 1812. Not Cactus repandus Linnaeus, 1753. Cereus subrepandus Haworth, Suppl. PI. Suec. 78. 1819. Cereus undatus Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 94. 1837. Not Haworth, 1830. Harrisia undata Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 564. 1908. Eriocereus subrepandus Riccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. Palermo 8: 243. 1909. Plant much branched, often 7 meters high, dark green, its branches rather slender, somewhatdivergent, 9 to 11-ribbed, the ribs rounded, the depressions between them rather shallow; areoles 2 cm. apart; sp
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . PI. Succ. 183. 1812. Not Cactus repandus Linnaeus, 1753. Cereus subrepandus Haworth, Suppl. PI. Suec. 78. 1819. Cereus undatus Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 94. 1837. Not Haworth, 1830. Harrisia undata Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 564. 1908. Eriocereus subrepandus Riccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. Palermo 8: 243. 1909. Plant much branched, often 7 meters high, dark green, its branches rather slender, somewhatdivergent, 9 to 11-ribbed, the ribs rounded, the depressions between them rather shallow; areoles 2 cm. apart; spines 10 to 16, whitish with black tips, the longer 2 to cm. long; bud oblong-ovoid, short-pointed, its scales subtending a few straight white hairs 8 to 12 mm. long; corolla 2 , the scales of its tube greenish brown, narrowly lanceolate, abruptly bent upward near the base,acuminate, about 2 cm. long, subtending a few hairs, the outer perianth-segments pale brown, theinner white, denticulate (or sometimes entire?); fruit depressed-globose, yellow, about 5 cm. long,. 152 THE CACTACEAE. 6 to 7 cm. thick, the base flat, the top bluntly pointed, strongly tubercled when young, the tubercleslow-conic, about 4 mm. high, about cm. from tip to tip, bearing a deciduous triangular-lanceo-late scale 6 to 8 mm. long, becoming confluent, the fruit finally smooth or nearly so, yellow. Type locality: British Islands of America. Distribution: Jamaica. The following names were referred to Cereus repandus as synonyms by Schumann: Cereus tinei Todaro (Ind. Sem. Hort. Panorm. 39. 1857; C. cossyrensis Tineo in Todaro,Ind. Sem. Hort. Panorm. 39. 1857), said to have come from Brazil, and Cereus erectusPfeiffer (Enum. Cact. 95. 1837), stated definitely to have come from Mexico. Illustrations: Trew, PI. Select, pi. 14, as Cereus etc.; Loudon, Encycl. PL 411. ; Edwardss Bot. Reg. 4: pi. 336, as Cactus repandus; De Candolle, Mem. Mus. Paris 17: pi. 13, as Cereus repandus; Pfe
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