111 . (26 j 
Near San Pablo another Echinocereust® was foiygd, and dried flowers 
as well as living specimens have saftly arrived here! ‘A large Behincoas! 
tus*? was collected near Pelayo ; unfortunately no flowers wer Z 
oll 
but the specimen brought to St. Louis is so far in fine condition. Of 
another smaller, but most elegant species of the same genus,** Dr. Wis- 
46 Fchinocereus enneacanthus, n. sp., ovato- eylindricus 10-costatus ; 
areolis elevatis, orbiculatis, distantibus, junioribus breviter albo-tomento- 
sis; aculeis angulatis, compressis, rectis, albis; radialibus 8 subaequal- 
ibus, centrali singulo longiore, demum de exo; floris tubo pill ella 30- 
wep tied saat eas albidas: fuscatasque inferioribus 6, 
CDRRMAE, lateral spines 9 to 16, central one 18 to 22 lines long. 
Flowers 2} to 3 inches long, red; spiny bristles in the axills of the low- 
est sepals (on the ovary) four brown 2 to 4 lines long, and two white 3 to 
4 lines long; higher up the number of the brown bristles diminishes, and 
on the upper part of the tube we ‘find only two white bristles of 6 line es 
length in the axills. 
47 Fichinocactus flerispinus, 0. sp., globosus, pilen subnudo, costis 
13 obliquis, tuberculato subinterruptis ; areolis ovatis, junioribus a 
tomentosis, distantibus; aculeis junioribus rubellis de mum cinereis; ra- 
dialibus 9-11 rectis s. subflexu osis, pp eiuiaAin | infimo bre- 
viori, curvato, lateralibus longioribus compres annulatis, rectiusculis ; 
centralibus 4 angulatis compressis annulatis, superioribus rectiusculis 
8. eurratis inferiore longissimo flexuoso, hom ‘Se uncinato, de- 
10 inches high, and the same in diameter ; sibs thick but not rounded; 
areolae oo the floriferous areolae, which. are 3 to 4 lines long,) 6 
Pipe upper central spines 24 to inehes long ; lower spine stoutest, 
t 
pede or even hooked at the mity, much compressed, 4- angled, 
Perely, carinate above and ‘halon ‘slightly annulated. 
uncuispinus, n. sp., depresso-globosus, costis 21 inter- 
it Anebinoanctns nisp ’ mai c= pte se 8 entosis ; “oh 
DUS: 
; shigmupiest Vi O18 sulcato, (s. s. patti 
About Pelayo, flowers in Maye, Avery. eas ee th , specimen 
