ECHINOPSIS. 



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Type locality: Corumba, Brazil. 

 Distribution: Province of Goyaz, Brazil. 



Illustrations: Bluhende Kakteen 2: pi. 61; U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PI. Ind. Bull. 262: 

 pi. 3; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 52. 



Figure 85 is copied from the first illustration above cited. 



14. Echinopsis cordobensis Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires III. 4: 489. 1905. 



Plants simple, large, 4 to 5 dm. high, 3 to 3.5 dm. thick, ellipsoid dull green, somewhat glau- 

 cous; ribs 13, straight, acute, stout, not crenate; spines all straight, at first dark, then gray; radial 

 spines 8 to 10, 10 to 20 mm. long; central spines 1 to 3, the lower one largest, 3 to 5 cm. long, bulbose 

 at base ; flowers erect, with little or no odor, 20 to 22 cm. long ; axils of scales on ovary and flower-tube 

 villous; inner perianth-segments white, acute; fruit globose, 2.5 cm. long, yellowish red. 



Type locality: Near Villa Mercedes, province of Cordoba, 

 Argentina. 



Distribution: Rare in province of Cordoba, Argentina. 



15. Echinopsis ancistrophora Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Bueno; 



Aires III. 4: 492. 1905. 



Stem simple, subglobose, 5 to 8 cm. in diameter, shining greens 

 ribs 15 or 16, stout, 1 cm. high, broad at base, somewhat crenate; 

 radial spines 3 to 7, slender, spreading backward, 5 to 15 mm. long; 

 central spine solitary, more or less curved or hooked, 1 to 2 cm. long ; 

 flowers inodorous, 1 2 to 1 6 cm . long ; outer perianth-segments green, 

 linear, acuminate; inner perianth-segments white, oblong, acute; 

 fruit ellipsoid, 1.6 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter; scales on ovary and 

 flower-tube small, their axils lanate. 



Type locality: Between Tucuman and Salta, Argentina. 



Distribution: The high mountains between the provinces 

 of Tucuman and Salta, Argentina. 



We have not seen specimens of this species, which 

 Spegazzini says is rare. 



Figure 86 is from a photograph contributed by Dr. 

 Spegazzini. 



16. Echinopsis spegazziniana sp. nov. 



Stem simple, slender, dull green, about 3 dm. high and 9 cm. 

 thick; ribs 12 to 14, low, slightly crenate; radial spines 7 or 8, 

 straight, subulate, brown; central spine one, a little curved, much 

 longer than the radials, 2 cm. long; flowers lateral, from near the 

 middle of the plant, 15 to 17 cm. long; perianth-segments short, broad, acute, white; scales on ovary 

 and tube small, very hairy in their axils. 



This species which was found near Mendoza, Argentina, was first identified as Echinop- 

 sis salpingophora by Von Preinreich (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 163. 

 1893) and later as E. campylacantha by R. Meyer (Monatsschr. Kak- 

 teenk. 5: 27. 1895), both erroneously. 



Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 161, as E. salpingophora; 

 Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 46, as E. campylacantha. 



Figure 88 is from a photograph contributed by Dr. Spegazzini. 



17. Echinopsis shaferi sp. nov. 



Simple, erect, cylindric, up to 1.5 meters high, 16 to 18 cm. in diameter, 

 dark green; ribs 10 to 12, 2 cm. high, separated by acute intervals; areoles 

 approximate, 1 cm. apart or less; radial spines straight, at first brownish, but Echinopsis shaferi. 

 gray in age, slender, subulate, 6 to 9, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long, somewhat spreading; Natural size 



Fig. 86. Echinopsis ancistrophora. 



