IOO THE CACTACEAE. 



Type locality: Chile. 



Distribution: Mountain ridges in Chile. 



In both the illustrations cited below the scales on the ovary and flower-tube are ovate 

 and overlapping and are not shown as woolly or setose in their angles. Schumann, how- 

 ever, describes them as such and, if so, the species must be of this relationship. 



Here we would refer the two varieties, brevispinosus Forster (Allg. Gartenz. 15: 51. 

 1847) and rigidior Salm-Dyck (Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 33. 1850). 



Echinocactus ncumannianus Labouret (Monogr. Cact. 245. 1853) is referred by Schu- 

 mann as a synonym of this species. It comes from Copiapo, Chile, and may be a differ- 

 ent species. 



Echinocactus ncumannianus rigidior (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1844. 18. 1845) 

 is only a name. 



Schumann also refers here Echinocactus supcrtextus Pfeiffer (Abbild. Beschr. Cact. 2: 

 under pi. 14. 1847), but the description reads more like that of E. curvispinus. This is 

 the conclusion reached by Mr. Sohrens of Santiago. Specimens so named in the Philippi 

 Herbarium we would certainly refer to Neoporteria. 



The species was named for Dr. Gustave Kunze, at one time director of the Botanical 

 Garden at Leipzig. 



Illustrations: Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 571. f. 75; Gartenflora 31: pi. 1082, a to c. 



Echinocactus malletianus Lemaire, Allg. Gartenz. 13: 387. 1845. 



Steins simple, depressed-globose or somewhat eylindrie, very woolly at the top, 1 dm. high; 

 ribs 15 to 17, more or less; spines straight, acicular, black; radial spines 5 or 6, suberect; central 

 spine solitary; flowers and fruit unknown. 



Type locality: Not cited. 



Dr. Rose obtained from L. Ouehl a photograph of this species as it is now represented 

 in collections. Its relationship is doubtful, but it should certainly not be placed just after 

 Echinocactus horizouthalonius as it was by Schumann. 



Illustration: Mbllers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 474. f. 6, No. 16. 



Echinocactus pepinianus Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 420. 1898. 



This species is very different from the species so named by Lemaire. Its flowers and fruit are 

 unknown and its relationship is not known to us. If it is from Chile or Peru, as Schumann suggests, 

 it may be referable to one of the species of Copiapoa. For note on Echinocactus pepinianus Lemaire, 

 see Britton and Rose (Cactaceae 2: 137. 1920). 



Echinocactus subniger Poselger in Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 588. 1885. 



Simple, globose to short-columnar; ribs 16, grayish green; radial spines 8, 1.5 cm. long; central 

 spines 1 to 3, 2 cm. long. 



Type locality: Mexico. 



This species is recognized by Schumann, but its flowers and fruit are unknown. It is 

 impossible, without seeing a specimen, to make out its generic relationship. If it came from 

 Mexico, as Riimpler thought, it does not belong to Neoporteria, but if it is from Chile, as 

 Schumann believed, it should probably be placed there. 



9. AREQUIPA gen. nov. 



Either simple or eespitose, globular to short-cylindric, small cacti ; ribs numerous, low, somewhat 

 tubercled, very spiny; flowers central, funnelform, scarlet; ovary and flower-tube scaly; axils of 

 scales long-hairy but not spiny nor bristly; fruit so far as known dry, dehiscing by a basal pore; 

 seed black, pitted, with a broad basal hilum. 



Type species: Echinocactus leucotrichus Philippi. 



The genus as here treated consists of two species, one of which has heretofore appeared 

 under several specific names, sometimes in Echinocactus and sometimes in Echinopsis, 

 although it has little in common with either genus and, especially, as these genera are now 



