Tas. 7705. 
CEREUS mosavensts. 
Native of California. 
Nat. Ord. Cactacrm.—Tribe EcuinocactTEea, 
Genus Cereus, Haw.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 849.) 
CEREUS mojavensis; glaucescens, caulibus dense ceespitosis 2-6 poll. longis 13-2 
poll. diam. ovatis vel cylindricis 8-11-costatis, costis sinuato-tuberculatis, 
areolis 5-6 lin. distantibus orbicularibus junioribus tomentosis, aculeis 
radiantibus 7-8 inzequalibus intertextis centrali solitario omnibus subtereti- 
‘bus curvatis, floribus prope apices caulium enatis 2 poll. longis 1} poll. 
diam. rubro-cinnabarinis, calycis tubi pulvillis 18-20 pauci-spinulosis, 
sepalis obléngis obtusis, petalis oblongo-obovatis obtusis, staminibus 
petalis fere sequantibus purpureis, stigmatibus 7-8 radiantibus viridibus. 
C. mojavensis, Hngelm. & Bigel. in Pacif. Rail. . vol. iv. p. 33. EHngelm. 
in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. iii. p. 281; §& Bot. Works, pp. 137, 158, 174. 
Walp. Ann. Bot. vol. v. p. 43. Oreutt, Rev. Cact. United States, p. 22. 
CO. Bigelovii, Hngelm. in Pacif. Rail. Rep. vol. iy. pl. 4, £. 8; § Bot. Works 
(Cact. of Whipple’s Exped.), pl. 4, f. 8. 
C. mohavensis, S. Wats. Bibl. Ind. p. 398. 
Echinocereus mojavensis, Riimpl. im Férst. Handb. COact. ed. 2, p. 803; 
K. Schum. Monogr. Cact. p. 297. 
The Cereus here figured is one of the dwarf, tufted 
species, and is nearly allied to C. Fendleri, Engelm. (Bot. 
Mag. t. 6533), from which, as may be seen by a comparison 
of the plates, it differs entirely in its longer radiating spines, 
and smaller, differently coloured flowers. It is a native of 
the dry Mohave district between the Rio Colorado and 
Mohave Creek in California, where it was discovered in 
March, 1854, by Lieut. Whipple, whilst making the survey 
for the Pacific Railway, although, by some oversight, it is 
altogether omitted in 8. Watson’s Botany of California. 
The plant from which our figure was made was procured 
from Mr. Orcutt, of San Diego, California, in 1897, and 
flowered at Kew in June, 1899. 
Descr.—Old plants densely tufted. Stems two to six 
inches high, one and a half to two inches in diam., ovate or 
cylindric, eight- to eleven-ribbed, light green, slightly 
glaucous. ibs obtuse, sinuately tubercled. Areoles about 
Maxcu Ist, 1900. 
