The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . euspolylophus which is probably this is now only about 30 cm. high andmay be briefly described as follows: Ribs14, strongly notched below the areoles;areoles white-felted; spines 3 to 6, at firstbrown, becoming white, acicular, about 1cm. long. The flower of this species is not typicalfor the genus. We have never seen it inbloom, but it did flower in the MissouriBotanical Garden, August 24, 1905, andour description is based on photographs,specimens, and notes made by Mr. C. at that time. The p
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . euspolylophus which is probably this is now only about 30 cm. high andmay be briefly described as follows: Ribs14, strongly notched below the areoles;areoles white-felted; spines 3 to 6, at firstbrown, becoming white, acicular, about 1cm. long. The flower of this species is not typicalfor the genus. We have never seen it inbloom, but it did flower in the MissouriBotanical Garden, August 24, 1905, andour description is based on photographs,specimens, and notes made by Mr. C. at that time. The plant isknown in trade also as Cereus nickelsiiand is a shy bloomer in name occurs in the Monatsschriftfur Kakteenkunde for 1910 (20:27). Cereus angulosus Stieber (Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 175. 1897) belongs here. Illustration: Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PL Industr. 262: pi. 9, as Pilocereus polylophus. Figure 34 is from a photograph of the plant in flower at the Missouri Botanical Gardenin 1905, copied from Bulletin No. 262 of the Bureau of Plant Fig. 34.—Cephalocereus polylophus. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II
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