The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Type locality: Near Ponce, Porto Rico. Distribution: Type locality and vicinity, and on the islands Mona and Desecheo. Plate xvii, figure 3, shows a fruiting branch of the plant from the type locality, paintedat the New York Botanical Garden in 1914. Figure 217 is from a photograph taken atthe type locality by Delia W. Marble in 1913. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II. 1. Top of flowering branch of Harrisia fragrans. 2. Top of fruiting joint of Harrisia fragrans. 3. Fruiting branch of Harrisia martinii. (All natural size )
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The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . Type locality: Near Ponce, Porto Rico. Distribution: Type locality and vicinity, and on the islands Mona and Desecheo. Plate xvii, figure 3, shows a fruiting branch of the plant from the type locality, paintedat the New York Botanical Garden in 1914. Figure 217 is from a photograph taken atthe type locality by Delia W. Marble in 1913. BRITTON AND ROSE, VOL. II. 1. Top of flowering branch of Harrisia fragrans. 2. Top of fruiting joint of Harrisia fragrans. 3. Fruiting branch of Harrisia martinii. (All natural size ) HARRISIA. 151 4. Harrisia nashii Britton, Bull. Torr. Club 35: 564. 1908. tCereus divergens Pfeiffer, Bnum. Cact. 95. 1837.Cereus nashii Vaupcl, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23: 27. 1913. Slender, erect, 2 to 3 meters high; branches widely divergent, light green, 3 to 4 cm. thick, 9 to 11-ribbed, the ribs rounded; areoles 2 to 2.5 cm. apart; spines only 3 to 6, gray, the longer ones15 mm. long; bud narrowly obovoid, obtuse, very short-pointed, its scales subtending many curledwhite hairs 6 mm. long or less; flower 1.6 to 2 dm. long; scales of the flower-tube linear, acuminate, 1.5 cm. long, subtending a few hairs; fruit ellipsoid, 6 to 8 cm. long, 4 to 5 cm. thick, very stronglytubercled, at least when immature, the conic tubercles 6 to 8 mm. high. Type locality: Between Gonaives and Plaisance, Haiti. Distribution: Arid parts of Hispaniola