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247. C. coccineus, Engelm. l. c., sub Echinocereo. Higher mountains about Santa 
Fé; often in large clusters of 8 or 15 heads ; flowering in May. — The areole are hardly 
oval, but almost orbicular, and are distinguished from those of most related species by 
their large size. — Among a number of plants of this family which Mr. Fendler sent 
from Santa Fé in a living state, but which unfortunately were all dead when they came 
to hand, are some specimens which appear to be varieties of this species, viz. :— 
8. MELANACANTHUS: aculeis radialibus 10-12 cinereis, centrali Jongissimo atrofusco 
porrecto recto seu leviter deorsum curvato.—y. cyLinpRicus: subsimplex, cylindricus; 
aculeis 8 radialibus, singulo robustiori porrecto. 
248. C. tRicLocnipiatus, Engelm. 1.c., sub Echinocereo. Higher mountains about 
Santa Fé; also in gravelly soil on the lower hills; flowering in May and June. — To 
the description given in Wislizenus’s Report I will add here, that the spines are often 
somewhat curved; the ridges are sharp, but the grooves between them very wide and 
shallow ; the areole widely distant from one another (often over an inch and a quarter), 
and the expression “ areolis sparsis,” in the character, ought to be changed to areolis 
distantibus. 
249. C. FenpieR! (sp. nov.): globoso-ovatus, simplex vel e basi proliferus, czespito- 
sus; costis 9-10 obliquis tuberculatis interruptis ; areolis orbiculatis approximatis; acu- 
leis basi bulbosis robustis, radialibus sub-7 compressis subincurvis fuscis demum cinereis 
(tribus inferioribus longioribus, superioribus brevioribus, summo nullo); aculeo centrali 
FRALQID 
robustiore longiore teretiusculo sursum curvato atro-fusco; floribus campanulatis ; tubo 9 -< 
i 
pulvillis sub-30 albo-tomentosis stipato, inferioribus aculeos setaceos albos apice adustos 
8-12 radiales et singulum centralem, superioribus aculeos sub-3 robustiores longiores 
curvatos albos gerentibus; sepalis interioribus 12-15 lineari-lanceolatis acutis ; petalis 
oblongo-linearibus, acutis vel obtusis’ 16-24; stigmatibus 12-14 viridibus stamina nu- ~ 
merosissima vix superantibus. — 8. PAUPERCULUS : aculeis robustis abbreviatis, radiali- 
bus 5—7, centrali subnullo.—Santa Fé, on elevated sandy plains ; flowering in June. — 
The specimens before me are 23 inches high, and at the base of the same diameter: the 
areole from 4 to 6 lines distant; the lower radial spines 7 to 10, the upper from 3 
or 4 to 6 lines long; central spine somewhat erect, curved upwards, 10 to 15 lines long. 
In var. 8. the spines are all from 3 to 6 lines long. The upper spine is wanting in all 
my specimens, and the opposite lowest one is longer than any except the central spine. 
Flowers from 23 to 3} inches long and wide, violet-purple. The spines on the lower 
part of the tube are from 23 to 3, and on the upper from 3 to 5 lines long. Petals vari- 
able in shape. 2 
250. OPUNTIA PH#ACANTHA (sp. noy.): diffusa; articulis obovatis seu orbiculato- 
