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146 THE CACTACEAE, 
Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 513. f. 63; Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 78: pl. 4632; Blithende Kakteen 1: pl. 9; 
Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 3, 60; Cact. Mex. Bound. pl. 21 to 24; Watson, Cact. 
Cult. 109. f. 39, as Echinocactus longihamatus; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 16: 57, as Echino- 
cactus longihamatus sinuatus; Cact. Mex. Bound. pl. 74,f. 11 to 14, as Echinocactus sinuatus. 
Plate xvi, figure 1, shows the flowering top of a plant sent by Dr. Rose from near 
Devil’s River, Texas, in 1913, which flowered at the New York Botanical Garden in 1916. 
Figure 152 is from a photograph of a plant sent by Dr. Edward Palmer from Victoria, 
Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1907. 
29. Ferocactus uncinatus (Galeotti). 
\ Echinocactus uncinatus Galeotti in Pfeiffer, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. 2: pl. 18. 1848. 
Echinocactus ancylacanthus Monville in Labouret, Monogr. Cact. 201. 1853. 
Echinocactus uncinatus wrightit Engelmann, Proc. Amer. Acad. 3: 272. 1856. 
‘Echinocactus wrightit Coulter, Cycl. Amer. Hort. Bailey 2: 513. 1900. 
Plant short-cylindric, 10 to 20 cm. high, bluish, slightly glaucous, with spindle-shaped roots; 
ribs usually 13, straight, strongly tubercled, undulate; flowering areoles narrow, extending from the 
spine-clusters to the base of the tubercles with the flower at the opposite end, felted; areoles also 
bearing one or more large flat yellow glands, these surrounded by a ring of short yellow hairs; central 
spine usually solitary, 12 cm. long or less, erect, yellow below, reddish above, hooked at tip; 3 lower 
radial spines spreading or reflexed, hooked; upper radials straight; flowers brownish, 2 to 2.5 cm. 
long, widely spreading; perianth-segments numerous, linear-oblong; filaments numerous, short; 
scales on ovary and flower-tube triangular, scarious-margined, in age broadly auriculate at base; 
fruit small, oblong, 2 cm. long, at first green, turning brown to crimson and finally scarlet, naked 
except the appressed scales, somewhat fleshy, edible; seeds black, small, oblong, 1 to 1.5 mm. long, 
with basal hilum; cotyledons foliaceous. 
Type locality: Mexico. 
Distribution: Rocky ridges and foothill-slopes in western Texas to central Mexico. 
This species is doubtfully included in Ferocactus, for it is not closely related to any of 
those described above. Technically it is different from all the other species in having the 
tubercles grooved on the upper side and the flower borne at the opposite end of the groove 
from the spine-cluster. It might be better to segregate it as a generic type. 
The glands in the areole described above secrete small drops of a honey-like substance 
much sought after by bees. While usually found in the groove above the spines and below 
the flower they are also found on the outer side of the spine-areoles proper. While these 
glands are usually sessile, they are sometimes elongated and suggest stunted spines. One 
which we have preserved is 8 mm. long. This species in its short groove above the spine- 
areole with its sessile gland suggests a relationship with some of the Coryphanthanae. 
Illustrations: Dict. Gard. Nicholson Suppl. 336. f. 361 (with flowers of an Echinocereus!); 
Pfeiffer, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. 2: pl. 18; Cact. Mex. Bound. pl. 74, f. 9; Watson, Cact. 
Cult. 123. f. 47; ed. 3. f. 29, as Echinocactus uncinatus; Cact. Mex. Bound. pl. 74, f. 10; 
Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 20: 105, as Echinocactus uncinatus wrightii. 
Figure 153 is from a photograph of a plant collected by F. E. Lloyd on Escondido 
Creek near Tuna Springs, Texas, in 1910, which flowered in 1911; figure 153a shows the 
same plant photographed in December 1920. 
30. Ferocactus rostii sp. nov. 
_ Sometimes growing in clumps of 8 to 10 heads but usually slender-cylindric, up to 3 meters 
high; ribs 16 to 22, rather low (hardly 1 cm. high), obtuse, somewhat tubercled; areoles large, 
white-felted, approximate; spine-clusters closely set, the spines interlocking and almost hiding the 
body of the plant; radial bristles sometimes wanting but when present 2 to 8, white or yellowish ; 
spines about 12, sometimes fewer, 3 or 4 central, those on the lower part of the plant more or less 
spreading, those at or near the top erect, somewhat flexible, flattened, annulate, pungent, either 
straight or curved at apex, perhaps never hooked, usually yellow but sometimes reddish on young 
plants but also turning yellow in age; flowers dark yellow; fruit red. 
