558 



era entire length; petals short apiculate; macrogonus. Salm-Dyck, of unknown 



ovary densely covered with short scales, nr irin ha ~ hppT1 in P11 iHvai-inn *,* 



almost completely concealed by thick > ri sin, nas !en in cultivation since 



rounded tufts of yellowish wool, in which before 1850. Plants so named in hort. 



n^rn ion b ^ ddeid 1 dark - brown bristles 4-ti Cambridge, now about 3 feet high, re- 



of the tube' style tips acute' fruit not sem ble the present species, and it may 



known "Katharine Brandegee, Zoe, 5:3 be possible that the two species may 



('je 1900). finally prove to be the same.' 



Near Rosario. Baja California. Dense- CEREUS PECTINA.TUS E 



y covered witn bright yellowish brown variety CENTRALIS Coulier. 



the 'size of an orange'; -.pi ant 6 . 8 cm high - centrals usually 4, 



called pnalla dulce. the lowest ve ghort ^ mm) and or _ 



rect, the upper 2 or 3 as long as the radi- 

 als (sometimes longer), and recurved up- 



C. FECTSlT-ABORISmUM E. Z 1:26, ward. Type, Wilcox of 1894 in Na hb. Ar- 

 izona, near Fort Huachaca." Coulter, 



herb. Sereno Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. Cont Na hb 3:386. 



21:429 (2 Jel886): '"Stems tall, erect, Cereus pensilis. 



solitary, with few erect branches, Katharine Brandegee. Zoe 5:192 

 10-11 costate; areolae densely tomen- (Ag- 1905), describes this as follows: 

 tose, finally glabrate: spines 8-12 --"Ribs 8-10 little elevated, often lost 

 (usually 10), very stout, straight, ash- in low tubercles; areolae 3-4 mm. in 

 colored tipped with black, the mar- diameter about 2 cm. apart on the 

 ginal spreading or reflexed (6 lines same rib; spines rather slender, bul- 

 long or less), the central one and r-ous at base, at first yellow, becom- 

 spmetimes the 2 uppermost larger ing reddish-gray. on the young 

 (%-!% inches long) and erect or as- growth usually 8 radials, 1 central, 

 cending, compressed or angular: fruit all of about the same length 2 cm., 

 dry, globose (2y 2 or 3 inches in di- in age somewhat longer, more num- 

 ameter), closely covered with pul- erous and arranged in about 3 series: 

 vinate densely hairy areolae, which flowers red. 5-6 cm. in length, with 

 are for the most part beset with stiff rather long and slender tube, the ex- 

 setaceous unequal yellowish spines pension not equalling the length; 

 (the longest 9-11 lines long): seeds areolae of the ovary and tube with 

 large 2 lines long, black and shining; yellowish wool and slender chestnut 

 embryo hamate. Growing 20-30 feet spines 1 cm. or more in length; fruit 

 high and 2 feet in circumference, on globular, spinose, 1.5-2 cm. in diam- 

 stony mountain-sides at Hacienda San eter: seeds very numerous, black rug- 

 Miguel (AA) ; called Cordon, or ose, nearly 2 mm. long, very oblique 

 Hecho, by the Indians, who grind the at base- Collected by T. ?. Branfle- 

 seed to mix with their meal, and use gee. Xo. 246 of his "Flora of the 

 the bristly covering of the fruit as a Cape Region" in the Sierra de la La- 

 hair brush. The species was first made <runa, Baja California, since collected 

 known to Dr. Engelmann by a speci- by him in the same place on several 

 men of these brushes which was oh- occasions, and also by Dr. C. A. Pur- 

 tained by Dr. Palmer in 1860 from the pu s. It is perhaps also the plant 

 Papago Indians at Hermosillo in mentioned (Proc. Cal. Acad.. ser. 2, 

 Sonora. Dr. Engelmann's notes upon 2:162) under C- Phoeniceus var. 

 his material have been found among p ac iflcus as growing on cliff? at Com- 

 his papers. From these it appears O ndu. It is a very conspicuous plant 

 that the remains of the tube of the aif j t hangs six feet in length, with 

 flower shovred very numerous loosely n - any scarlet red blossoms from the 

 imbricated linear-lanceolate sepals, mountain ledges. Wherever it grows 

 6-9 lines long, woolly in the axils. on ] evelS( however, the branches are 

 Palmer's present specimens scanty, more or less upri&nt and a foot or 

 but supplemented by a photograph more lons . It probably belongs to the 

 and by notes, are sufficient to furnish section Echinocereus." 

 most of the needed characters and to 



confirm the distinctness of the species. av crcUS E. A 1:384 fdr. 

 The flower remains unknown. C. c. PRINGTiEI Wat 20:368. Z 1:26, 2:19. 



