ASTROPHYTUM. 



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Various hybrids have been produced by crossing this species with Astrophytum 

 ornatum and A. myriostigma. 



Echinocactus capricomis major (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 19: 139. 1909) has never 

 been described. 



Illustrations: Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908: pi. 5, f. 2; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 14: 

 183; 26: 135; Gartenwelt 15: 537; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 8o, 81; Alianza Cientifica 

 Universal 3: pi. opp. 190; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 474. f. 6, No. 1 ; Blanc, Cacti 41. 

 No. 420; Karsten and Schenck, Vegetationsbilder 2: pi. 20, as Echinocactus capricomis; 

 Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 2: 82 ; Floralia 42 : 372, as Echinocactus capricomis minor; De Laet, 

 Cat. Gen. f. 5, as Echinocactus capricomis major. 



Plate xxi, figure i, is from a painting by E- I. Schutt of a plant collected by C. A. Pur- 

 pus at Parras, Mexico. 



4. Astrophytum ornatum (De Candolle) Weber.* 



Echinocactus ornatus De Candolle, Mem. Mus. Hist. 



Nat. Paris 17: 114. 1828. 

 Echinocactus mirbelii Lemaire, Cact. Aliq. Nov. 22. 183S. 

 Echinocactus holopterus Miquel, Linnaea 12: 2. 1838. 

 Echinocactus tortus Scheidweiler, Bull. Acad. Sci. Brux. 



5:493. 1838. 

 Echinofossulocactus mirbelii Lawrence in Loudon, Gard. 



Mag. 17:318. 1841. 

 Echinocactus ghiesbrechtii Salm-Dyek, Allg. Gartenz. 



18: 395. 1850. 

 Echinopsis haageana Linke, Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. 



1:86. 1858. 

 Echinocactus ornatus mirbelii Croucher, Gard. Chron. 



1873: 983- 1873- 

 Echinocactus haageanus Riimpler in Forster, Handb. 



Cact. ed. 2. 469. 1885. 

 Echinocactus ornatus glabrescens Schumann, Gesamtb. 



Kakteen 324. 1898. 



Subglobose to eylindric, 3 dm. high or more, 

 the surface more or less white-floccose ; ribs 8, rather 

 prominent, 2 em. high or more, acute; areoles 1 to 5 

 cm. apart, felted; spines 5 to 11, subulate, yellow at 

 first, becoming brown, often 3 cm. long; flowers 

 perianth-segments broadly oblong, with a broad, more 

 very narrow. 



Type locality: Mexico. 



Distribution: Hidalgo and Queretaro, Mexico. 



Dr. Rose collected this species in the deserts of eastern Queretaro, Mexico, in 1905 (No. 

 10286). 



Astrophytum glabrescens Weber (Diet. Hort. Bois 467. 1896) is given as a synonym of 

 this species, although it has never been described. 



Echinopsis haageana Linke (Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. 1: 86. 1858), although origi- 

 nally described as probably from Peru, doubtless belongs to this species. 



Illustrations: Bluhende Kakteen 2: pi. 113; Cact. Journ. 1: pi. for September; 54; Ann. 

 Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908: pi. 13, f. 4; Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 56; Gard. Mag. 4: 

 279; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 474. f. 6, No. 19, as Echinocactus ornatus; Blanc, 

 Cacti 50. f. 581 ; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 79, as Echinocactus ornatus mirbelii; Mollers 

 Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 485. f. 17, as Echinocactus ornatus glabrescens; Gartenwelt 15: 537, 

 as Echinocactus mirbelii ornatus; Gard. Chron. 1873: 983. f. 196, as Echinocactus mirbelii; 

 Cact. Journ. 2 : 173. 



Figure 196 is from a photograph furnished by Dr. W. E. Safford of the plant collected 

 by Dr. Rose near Higuerillas, Mexico, in 1905. 



"This binomial has several times been credited to Weber, but has never been formally published. 



Fig. 196.- 



\strophytum ornatum. 



large, lemon-yellow, 7 to 9 cm. broad; inner 

 apex; scales on ovary 



or less serrated 



