ECHINOPSIS. 63 
Usually simple, columnar, claviform, sometimes 1 meter high, 20 cm. in diameter, glaucous- 
green; ribs 10 to 15, acute, separated by acute intervals; areoles circular, filled with spines and short 
white wool; spines 8 to 15, the longest 2 cm. long, acicular, straight, pale, nearly white, except the 
tips, these brown; central spines 1 to several, the longest 3 to 4 cm. long, stouter than the radials. 
horizontal; young joints borne near the top of the plant, densely covered with yellow and brown 
spines intermixed with soft white hairs; flowers korne near the top of the plant, about 10 cm. long; 
inner perianth-segments spreading, lanceolate, acute, white. 
Type locality: Not. cited. 
Distribution: Paraguay (fide Weber). 
This species is known to us only from descriptions and illustrations. Schumann 
follows Meyer in making E. forbesii a variety of E. valida. We have united the two and 
taken the older specific name. 
’ The species was named for James Forbes (1773-1861), an enthusiastic student of 
cacti and gardener for the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey. 
Cereus validissimus Weber (Dict. Hort. Bois 473. 1896) is given as a synonym of 
E. valida. 
Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. §: 117; Palmer, Cult. Cact. 151; Moéllers Deutsche 
Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 7, No. 17, as Echinopsts valida. 
4. Echinopsis huottii (Cels) Labouret, Monogr. Cact. gor. 1853. 
Echinocactus kuotti Cels, Portef. Hort. 216. - 1847. - 
Echinopsis apiculata Linke, Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. 1: 85. 1858. 
Plants simple, slender, up to 3.5 dm. high, short-columnar, dull green; ribs 9 to 11, crenate; 
radial spines 9 to 11, acicular, 2 cm. long or more, central spines normally 4, brown, 4 cm. long, 
subulate, porrect; flowers lateral, large, 17 to 20cm. long, white; stamens included, greenish be- 
low, white above; style green; stigma-lobes 14, green. 
Type locality: Cited as Chile (fide Labouret), but doubtless wrongly. 
Distribution: Bolivia (side Linke and Schumann). Oo 
It does not seem close to any of the other species. It 1s quite different from the Boli- 
vian species collected by Dr. Rose at La Paz, Bolivia, which we have referred to E. 
bridgesti. (See page 74.) . 
We have studied a plant sent to the New York Botanical Garden from the Berlin 
Botanical Garden in 1902; in this there is only one central spine at each areole. 
Schlumberger (Rev. Hort. IV. 3: 348. 1854) calls this Echinopsis kuottiit, doubtless a 
typographical error. TR . 
Cereus huottii Cels and Echinopsis verschaffelti (Dict. Hort. Bois 471. 1896) are 
given as synonyms of this species by Weber. se 
_ Illustrations: Méllers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 7, No. II, as Echmopsts 
apiculata; Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 45; Gartenwelt 17: 145. 
5. Echinopsis minuana Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires IIT. 4: 488. 1905. 
columnar, 5 to 8 dm. high, 14 to 15 cm. in diameter ; ribs 12, 
ht, dark brown to chestnut-colored ; radial spines 4 to 7, 
stouter than the radials, bulbose at base, 5 to 6 cm. long; 
anth-segments oblanceolate, 4.5 cm. long; filaments 
h white; fruit subglobose, 4.5 cm. long, 
Simple or rarely proliferous at base, 
straight, a little undulate; spines all straig 
short, 2 to 3 cm. long; central spine solitary, stou 
flowers large, inodorous, 20 cm. long; inner perl : 
and style greenish white; stigma-lobes 17 or 18, greenis 
greenish red. 
Type locality: Bank of Parana River, province of Entre Rios, Argentina. 
Distribution: Province of Entre Rios, eastern Argentina. _ 
We know this species only from description and a photograph taken by Dr. 
Spegazzini. 
