. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. CEPHALOCEREUS. 39. FIG. 50.—Flower of C. deeringii. s>. — Fruit of same. Xo,7. Type locality: Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida. Distribution: Rocky hammocks, Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida. The plant was named for Charles Deering, whose deep interest in the botanical explora- tion of Florida and in the preservation of its hammocks from destruction and its rare native plants from extermination, enabled Dr. Small to re- discover, study, and satisfactorily determine the rela- tionship of this plant. Plants similar to those from Upper and
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. CEPHALOCEREUS. 39. FIG. 50.—Flower of C. deeringii. s>. — Fruit of same. Xo,7. Type locality: Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida. Distribution: Rocky hammocks, Lower Matecumbe Key, Florida. The plant was named for Charles Deering, whose deep interest in the botanical explora- tion of Florida and in the preservation of its hammocks from destruction and its rare native plants from extermination, enabled Dr. Small to re- discover, study, and satisfactorily determine the rela- tionship of this plant. Plants similar to those from Upper and Lower Matecumbe Key have been collected on Umbrella Key, which is a few miles north of Lower Matecumbe, and these plants represent, without much doubt, the same species. Illustration: Journ. N. Y. Bot. Card. 18: pi. 206. Plate iv, figure 4, shows a fruit from the type plant; plate v is from a photograph of the type colony of plants on Lower Matecumbe Key, taken by Dr. Small in May 1917- Figure 50 shows the flower and figure 51 the fruit with withering persistent corolla. 17. Cephalocereus robinii (Lemaire). Pilocereiis robinii Lemaire, Illustr. Hort. n: Misc. 74. 1864. Cephalocereus bakeri Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 415. 1909. Cereus bakeri Vaupel, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23: 23. 1913. Plant 3 to 8 meters high, branching near and above the base; branches ascending, 7 to 10 cm. thick, dull green, bright glau- cous green when young; ribs i o to 13, acutish; areoles i to cm. apart, bearing short wool; spines 15 to 20, acicular, i to cm. long, yellow when young, becom- ing gray, the centrals hardly different from the radials; flower- ing areoles close together; flowers brownish green, 5 cm. long, 3 cm. broad at widest part of throat, constricted at top of tube proper, alliaceous in odor; tube green and slightly glaucous; ovary and lower. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readab
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