MALACOCARPUS. 199 
Echinocactus terscheckii Reichenbach (Terscheck, Suppl. 3; also Walpers, Repert. Bot. 2: 
315. 1843). 
Echinocactus rosaceus (Otto, Allg. Gartenz. 1: 364. 1833), E. acutangulus Zuccarini 
(Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 55. 1837), and E. conquades (Férster, Handb. Cact. 338. 1846) 
have usually been referred to*Echinocactus corynodes but were never described. 
Echtnocactus erinaceus elatior Monville (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1844. 22. 
1845), without description, must be referred here. 
Illustrations: Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 50; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 69; 
De Laet, Cat. Gén. f. 21, as Echinocactus erinaceus; Verh. Ver. Beférd. Gartenb. 3: pl. 16, 
f. 1, as Melocactus poliacanthus; Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen 2: pl. 1, sec. 3, f. 1 to 4; 
Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 68: pl. 3906; Anal. Mus. Nac. Montevideo 5: pl. 22, as Echinocactus 
corynodes; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 4: 141; Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. f. 52; Riimpler, 
Sukkulenten 174. f. 96; Garten-Zeitung 4: 182. f. 42, No. 18; Krook, Handb. Cact. 67, as 
Malacocarpus corynodes; Gartenflora 31: 216, as Malacocarpus corynodes erinaceus; Anal. 
Mus. Nac. Montevideo 5: pl. 23, as Echinocactus leucocarpus; Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 7: 312; 
Dict. Gard. Nicholson 2: 317. f. 504; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 4: 141; Forster, Handb. 
Cact. ed. 2. 455. f. 53. - 
Figure 216 is copied from plate 3906 of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, cited above. 
Fic. 216.—Malacocarpus erinaceus. Fic. 217.—Malacocar pus langsdorfit, 
4 ~~. 
18. Malacocarpus langsdorfii (Lehmann). 
Cactus langsdorfii Lehmann, Ind. Sem. Hamburg 7. 3 826. 
- Melocactus langsdorfii De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 4 a ere 
Echinocactus langsdorfii Link and Otto, Icon. Fi. . 79. . 
1 ’ ’ ’ 
J 0 Wy I cm ’ 
yellow; stigma-lobes numerous, purple. 
Type locality: Central Brazil. 
stribution: uthern Brazil. ; _ 
Diet tee frst ai cibed in the Seed Catalogue of the Botanical Garden of 
. ipti it under the name of 
blished two descriptions of 1 
Hamburg. ‘The next year Lehmann pubis! ied by a colored illustration 
. . h was accompanied Dy ; . 
s) langsdorfii, one of whic os strations 
(ane eae pert cited above). We have seen no living plants h nln ‘distinc t 
which we re disposed to refer here and we have therefore kept the sp ’ 
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