NKORAIMONDIA. 



I8l 



Guatemala 



from a plant sent by the late Federico Eichlam, in 1909 



Washingt 



1910. 



geometnzans m its larger, greener branches and different armament. 



Figure 256 shows a flower and two fruits of the* type plant. 



Myrtillo 



a 



h 



Fig, 2=^6. 



Myrtillocactus eichlamii. Flower and fruits. Natural size. 



38. NEORAIMONDIA ecn. nov. 



ribbed 



ribs separated by broad intervals, very spiny; areoles brown-felted, enormously developed, thick 

 the flowering ones sometimes elongated and branched, forming cephalium-like masses, these spineless 

 but with ridges of short brown felt; flowers 2 on the areoles or solitary, funnelform, the tube stout 

 longer than the limb; perianth-segments oblong; scales of the ovary and flower-tube with short 

 brown wool in their axils; fruit ellipsoid to globular, covered with globular areoles with short brown 

 wool and short spines; seed dull black with pitted surface and a depressed hilum. 



Peru. It is named in honor of Antonio Raimondi 



(i 825-1 890), the great geographer and naturalist of Peru. 



monotvpic eenus of western 



Berger says of the plant, which he referred to the subgenus 



Mo 



1905) ' 



W ..■•■*.-. -/.^^ 



Fig. 257. — Neoraimondia niacrostibas. 



Fig. 258. — Flower and 

 enlarged areole of N. 

 macrostibas. X0.7. 



'*But I am quite aware that in this form the subgenus Eulychnia is more artificial than natural. 

 For instance, C. macrostibas A. Berger differs greatly from the rest, especially by its enlarged and 

 prolonged flowering areoles. But the material^ at hand is so scanty that I must refrain from any 

 further statement.' 



described 



Pilocereus, and as such it is another heterogeneous form of this conglomerate genus." 



