LOBIVIA. 



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central spines 4, 1 or 2 of them longer and hooked; flowers inodorous, 6 to 7 cm. long; inner perianth- 

 segments linear-lanceolate, red; filaments dark purple; style yellowish; stigma-lobes 10, yellowish 

 white, linear. 



Type locality: Near Cachi, Argentina. 



Distribution: In the high mountains of Salta, Argentina, altitude 2,500 meters. 

 We know the plant only from a photograph and the original description. 

 Spegazzini also gives the name Echinocactus cachensis (Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 

 III. 4: 493. 1905), but does not formally publish it. 



Figure 68 is from a photograph contributed by Dr. Spegazzini. 



7. Lobivia caespitosa (J. A. Purpus). 



Echinopsis caespitosa J. A. Purpus, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 27: 120. 191 7. 



Cespitose, the joints erect or spreading, short, cylindric; ribs 10 to 12, somewhat undulate, 

 acutish; areoles 1 to 1.5 cm. apart, white-woolly ; radial spines acicular, 12, brownish, 1 to 2 cm. long; 

 central spine solitary, brown, somewhat curved, 5 cm. long or less; flowers from the side of the 

 plant near the middle, short-furmelform, 6.5 to 8 cm. long, reddish within, yellowish red without; 

 perianth-segments oblong, obtuse. 



Type locality: Bolivia. 

 Distribu tion : Bolivia . 



We know this plant only from description and illustration. It is clearly not an 

 Echinopsis. 



Illustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 27: 121, as Echinopsis caespitosa. 



Fig. 69. Lobivia shaferi. 



Fig. 70. Lobivia saltensis. 



8. Lobivia saltensis (Spegazzini). 



Echinopsis saltensis Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires III. 4: 487. 1905. 



Plants at first simple but becoming densely cespitose, light green, shining; ribs 17 or 18, low, 

 obtuse, crenate; spines all short and straight; radial spines 12 to 14, 4 to 6 mm. long; central spines 

 1 to 4, stouter than the radials, 10 to 12 mm. long; flowers on the side of the plant near the middle, 

 inodorous, 4 cm. long; perianth-segments red, short, obovate, 10 to 12 mm. long, obtuse; scales on 

 ovary naked in their axils (according to Spegazzini). 



Type locality: Near Amblaio, Argentina. 



Distribution: Between Tucuman and Salta, Argentina. 



Spegazzini also gives the name Echinocactus saltensis (Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 

 III. 4: 487. 1905), but does not formally publish it. 



We know the plant only from a photograph and from the description; the character 

 of the ovary-scales being without hairs in their axils is unusual in the genus. It is 

 described as being only 6.5 cm. high. 



Figure 70 is from a photograph contributed by Dr. Spegazzini. 



