MALACOCARPUS. 189 
Schumann refers Echinocactus martinii Cels (Gesamtb. Kakteen 297. 1898) as a 
synonym of E. sellowi1, but we do not know that the binomial has been f ormally made. 
Illustrations: Anal. Mus. Nac. Montevideo s: pl. 18; Pfeiffer and Otto, Abbild. Beschr. 
Cact. 1: pl. 1, as Echinocactus sellowii; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. 143. f. 68, as E. sellowti 
martini; Anal. Mus. Nac. Montevideo 5: pl. 21, as E. sellowii turbinatus; Anal. Mus. Nac. 
Montevideo 5: pl. 19, as E. sellowit macrocanthus; Anal. Mus. Nac. Montevideo 5: pl. 20, as E. 
sellowit macrogonus; Link and Otto, Verh. Ver. Beférd. Gartenb. 3: pl. 16, f. 2, as Melocactus 
tephracanthus; Pfeiffer, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. 2: pl. 6, as Echinocactus tetracanthus; Curtis’s 
Bot. Mag. 64: pl. 3569, as &. sessiliflorus; Anal. Mus. Nac. Montevideo 5: pl. 25, as E. 
fricu; Anal. Mus. Nac. Montevideo 5: pl. 26, as E. pauciareolatus; Link and Otto, Verh. Ver. 
Beférd. Gartenb. 3: pl. 23, as Melocactus acuatus; Lemaire, Icon. Cact. pl. 12; Martius, FI. 
Bras. 4°: pl. 49; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 4: 141, as Malacocarpus sellowii; Link and Otto, 
Verh. Ver. Beférd. Gartenb. 3: pl. 22, as Melocactus sellowit. 
Fic. 199.—Malacocarpus schumannianus. 
by Dr. Shafer at Concordia, Argen- 
Fic. 198.—Malacocarpus tephracanthus. 
Plate xx, figure 1, shows the top of a plant collected I ‘ | 
tina, in 1917 (No. 119), which flowered in the New York Botanical Garden in 1918; plate 
XXI, figure 2, shows a plant obtained by Dr. Rose from Dr. Spegazzini in 1915, labeled 
Echinocactus sellowianus, which flowered in the New York Botanical Garden in an 7. - ig. 
ure 198 is copied from Pfeiffer and Otto’s illustration of Echinocactus sellowit; figure 203 
copied from the illustration given by Link and Otto of Melocactus acuatus. 
\2, Malacocarpus schumannianus (Nicolai). 
32175. 1893 
\.Echinocactus schumannianus Nicolai, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 175" ur Steen. 9: 43. 1899. 
Echinocactus schumannianus longispinus Haage Jr. in Quehl, } sschr. 
mes over a meter long anc 
i bent, someti 
ated, becoming bent of Fr erect >, setaceous, brownish to 
1 to 4 dm. in diameter; ribs about 30, low, acute, dull green; spines 4 to i slong, obtuse, spread 
yellow; flowers central, large, citron-yellow, 4.5 cm. long; perian gm 
ing; scales on ovary with wool and bristles in their axils. 
Type locality: Said to be in the territory of Misiones, Paraguay. 
nares tina. 
Distribution: Paraguay and northeastern Argen _ > ko7: 
Illustrations: Sohiwnann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 65; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 7: 55 
ae , as Echino- 
Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. 178. f. 111; Chodat, Veg. Paraguay 1: f. 87, 88, 89, as Echino 
cactus schumannianus. 
Figure 199 is copied from the first illustrati 
Simple, globose or elong: 
on cited above. 
