NEOPORTERIA. 



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Fig. 107 Neoporteria jussieui 



Fig. 108. Neoporteria chilensis. 



Illustrations: Bliihende Kakteen 2: pi. 67; (?) Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 27: 53, as 

 Echinocactus jussieui. 



Figure 107 is copied from the first illustration above cited. 



5. Neoporteria subgibbosa (Haworth). 



Echinocactus subgibbosus Haworth, Phil. Mag. 10: 419. 1831. 

 Cactus berteri Colla, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino 37: 77. 1833. 

 Echinocactus acuiissimus Otto and Dietrich, Allg. Gartenz. 3: 353. 1835. 

 Echinocactus exsculptus Otto in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 65. 1837. 

 Cereus dichroacanthus Martius in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 76. 1837. 

 Mammillaria atrata Hooker in Curtis's Bot. Mag. 65: pi. 3642. 1839. 

 Mammillaria floribunda Hooker in Curtis's Bot. Mag. 65: pi. 3647. 1839. 

 Echinocactus ihrincogonus Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 22. 1839. 

 Echinocactus Ihrincogonus elatior Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 23. 1839. 

 Echinocactus berteri Remy in Gay, Fl. Chilena 3: 15. 1847. 

 Echinocactus rostratus Jacobi, Allg. Gartenz. 24: 108. 1856. 

 Cactus atratus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 259. 1891. 

 Cactus floribundus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 259. 1891. 



Globose when young, soon cylindric, usually 3 dm. high and erect, but sometimes much elon 

 gated, a meter long or more, either prostrate or hanging over cliffs, very spiny; ribs numerous, often 

 20, i cm. high; areoles approximate, often large, sometimes 1 cm. in diameter ; spines numerous, aci- 

 cular, brownish in age, often paler at base, straight, the longest ones 3 cm. long; flowers usually abun- 

 dant, 4 cm. long, the buds dark red, pointed; perianth-segments usually light pink, but sometimes 

 darker, very numerous, the outer ones spreading, the central ones erect, concealing the stamens, 

 acute; filaments attached below middle of flower- tube, erect, white, included; style slender, pale, 

 slightly exserted; scales on ovary minute, acute, horny, those on tube hairy and bristly; fruit 1.5 

 to 2 cm. long, reddish; seeds brown, 1 mm. in diameter. 



Type locality: Near Valparaiso, Chile. 



Distribution: Along the seacoast of Chile, both north and south of Valparaiso. 

 Echinocactus exsculptus Otto, when first described, was a complex. Pfeiffer (Enum. 

 Cact. 65. 1837) says it comes from Chile, Mexico, and Montevideo; he referred here several 



