The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 62.—Fruit of Cephaloee-reus arrabidae. X0.7.. Fig. 63.—Cephalocereus arrabidae. Plate vi, figure i, shows a flowering joint of a plant brought by Dr. Rose to the NewYork Botanical Garden from Iguaba Grande, Brazil, in 1915. Figure 62 shows the fruitcollected by Dr. Rose at Bahia in the same year; figure 63 is from a photograph takenby Paul G. Russell on Juparyba Island, Bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the same year. 23. Cephalocereus urbanianus (Schumann) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 420. 19

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The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Fig. 62.—Fruit of Cephaloee-reus arrabidae. X0.7.. Fig. 63.—Cephalocereus arrabidae. Plate vi, figure i, shows a flowering joint of a plant brought by Dr. Rose to the NewYork Botanical Garden from Iguaba Grande, Brazil, in 1915. Figure 62 shows the fruitcollected by Dr. Rose at Bahia in the same year; figure 63 is from a photograph takenby Paul G. Russell on Juparyba Island, Bay of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the same year. 23. Cephalocereus urbanianus (Schumann) Britton and Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 420. 1909. Pilocereus urbanianus Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 193. 1897. Cereus urbanianus Berger, Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 16: 63. 1905. Not Giirke and Weingart. 1904. Simple and columnar or branching at base, sometimes 4 meters high, 3 cm. in diameter; branches4 to 5 cm. in diameter, woolly at apex; ribs 8 to 12, obtuse; spines 1 o to 13, spreading, stiff but flexuous;central spines distinct from the radials; flowers on one side of the stem, the flowering areoles bearinglong brown wool and bristle-like spines often 4 to 6 cm. long; fl