MALACOCARPUS. 



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Echinocactus terscheckii Reichenbach (Terscheck, Suppl. 3; also Walpers, Repert. Bot. 2: 

 315- 1843)- 



Echinocactus rosaceus (Otto, Allg. Gartenz. 1: 364. 1833), E. acutangulus Zuccarini 

 (Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 55. 1837), and E. conquades (Forster, Handb. Cact. 338. 1846) 

 have usually been referred to Echinocactus corynodes but were never described. 



Echinocactus erinaceus elatior Monville (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1844. 

 1845), without description, must be referred here. 



Illustrations: Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 50; Schelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 

 De Laet, Cat. Gen. f. 21, as Echinocactus erinaceus; Verh. Ver. Beford. Gartenb. 3: pi. 

 f. 1, as Melocactus poliacanthus; Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Miinchen 2: pi. 1, sec. 3, f. 1 to 4; 

 Curtis'sBot. Mag. 68: pi. 3906; Anal. Mus. Nac. Montevideo 5: pi. 22, as Echinocactus 

 corynodes; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 4: 141; Forster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. f. 52; Rumpler, 

 Sukkulenten 174. f. 96; Garten-Zeitung 4: 182. f. 42, No. 18; Krook, Handb. Cact. 67, as 

 Malacocarpus corynodes; Gartenflora 31: 216, as Malacocarpus corynodes erinaceus; Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. Montevideo 5: pi. 23, as Echinocactus leucocarpus; Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 7: 312; 

 Diet. Gard. Nicholson 2: 317. f. 504; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 4: 141; Forster, Handb. 

 Cact. ed. 2. 455. f. 53. 



Figure 216 is copied from plate 3906 of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, cited above. 



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69; 

 16, 



Fig. 216. Malacocarpus erinaceus. 



Fig. 217. Malacocarpus langsdorfii. 



18. Malacocarpus langsdorfii (Lehmann). 



Cactus langsdorfii Lehmann, Ind. Sem. Hamburg 17. 1826. 

 Melocactus langsdorfii De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 461. 1828. 

 Echinocactus langsdorfii Link and Otto, Icon. PI. Rar. 79. 1830. 



Oblong, 1 o em . high or more, very woolly at apex ; ri bs 1 7 , obtuse, strongly tubercled ; radial spines 

 about 6, more or less unequal, somewhat spreading; central spine usually solitary, 2.5 em. long; flower 

 yellow, 1.5 cm. broad, campanulate; inner perianth-segments oblong, obtuse, about 20; filaments 

 yellow; stigmadobes numerous, purple. 



Type locality: Central Brazil. 



Distribution: Central and southern Brazil. 



This plant was first described in the Seed Catalogue of the Botanical Garden of 

 Hamburg. The next year Lehmann published two descriptions of it under the name of 

 Cactus {Echinocactus) langsdorfii, one of which was accompanied by a colored illustration 

 (see second illustration cited above). We have seen no living plants or other illustrations 

 which we are disposed to refer here and we have therefore kept the species distinct, 



