Tas. 4567. 
ECHINOPSIS camMpyLacaANnTHA. 
Curve-spined Echinopsis. 
Nat. Ord. CactE®.—IcosaNDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4521.) 
Ecurnopsts campylacantha ; (subpedalis) ovato-globosus, costis 14—16 vertica- 
libus subcompressis obtusis, areolis magnis approximatis ellipticis lanatis, 
aculeis subulato-acicularibus rigidissimis flavicantibus apice brunneis ex- 
terioribus 8-10 radiantibus rectiusculis (uncialibus et ultra) centrali lon- 
gissima (3-unciali) sursum curvata, calycibus infundibuliformibus sparsim 
squamosis, squamis hirsutissimis. 
Ecurnopsts campylacantha. Pfeiff. in Salm-Dyk, Cact. Hort. Dyk, p. 39. 
Ecurnocactws leucanthus. Gill. in Bot. Reg. 1840. ¢.13 (woé E. leucacanthus, 
Luce.) 
Cereus leucanthus. Pfeiff. Enum. Cact. p. 71. 
A fine and well-marked species, with handsome flowers, 
readily distinguished by the great length of the central spine of 
the areole, and by its taking an upward and inward curve, a: 
direction to which the other radiating spines are more or less 
inclined. It is a native of the Argentine province of Mendoza, 
at the eastern foot of the Andes, where it was discovered by the 
late Dr. Gillies, and introduced by him to our Gardens, with 
many others from that region, which we fear are now mostly 
lost to us. It flowers in the spring and summer months. 
Descr. Our plants are, the largest of them, a foot high, in 
shape between ovate and globose, not unlike that of a pine- 
apple, rather acute at the top, longitudinally furrowed : ridges 
fourteen to sixteen, considerably elevated, scarcely compressed, 
obtuse ; the edges slightly tubercled or lobed. Areole ap- 
proximate, large, oval, woolly, bearing from eight to ten strong 
but rather slender spines, generally tawny, tipped with dark 
brown :—of these eight to ten form the circumference and spread 
in a stellated manner, yet having a slight curve upwards, an 
inch or rather more long; the central spine is solitary, nearly 
three inches long, and has a remarkably upward curve towards ~ 
MARCH lst, 1851. 
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