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A new species of Talinim; with ingle antag flowers, was found for 
the first time in the Jornada, but was again collected further ,south, to- 
wards Chihuahua. Dalea lanata, Centaurea ge Sapindus mar- 
ta, and a Bolivaria, probably identical with a new Texan species, 
rought to mind the flora of Arkansas and Texas, While the gigantic 
Eichinocactus Wislizeni,'* reminds us again that we ate approaching the 
ter petiolatis repando-dentatis, racemo umbelliformi, demum laxo elongato; 
pedicellis eglandulosis, horizontalibus, flore longioribus, sepalis. calycis 
aperti posal petite (albis) obovatis, unguiculatis basi pei :aNRROE- 
datis; stigmate cordato conico; siliculis basi preendias emar. 
ommon in Sas soil near Valverde and Fray Cristobal, i of the 
Jornada del Muerto; flowers in July. Plant about 1 foot high, annual or 
biennial; leaves ovate:la neeolate, attenuate in the short rt petioles , closely 
resembling those of some species of Gaura ; pedicells filiform, longer than 
the flower or fruit; flowers rite, about 3 lines i in diameter, open; 
ease in the fruit, which i to 6 lines in transverse diameter, ae 
t half as much from a im top; the shit appear to bé closed a 
pate attachment to the subulate solid dissepime 
. yrea californica, Harv., pedicellis basi bi pana ilosis horizontalibus, 
flore multo brevioribus; sepalis caleyeis cylindrici clausi erectis; pe 
(aureis?) ee stigmate bilobo; siliculis apice profundius 
emargina 
Easily dis stinguished by the characters just enumerated from the New 
Mexican plant; tho sein the difference in calyx and stigma will not permit 
a generic separatio 
14 Echinocactus wiice N. Sp., giganteus, vertice Siiges formants ; 
costis .. . . acutis crenatis; areolis oblongis, approximatis, junioribus fulvo- 
sengepyon Sts radialibus flavis, demum ci Bene cae rrectis; Thieiatibas 
sub 15 setaceis elongatis laeviusculis, summis infimisque 5-6 brevioribus 
Saocbun, annulatis; centralibus rubellis giinwlene 3 rectis sursum 
versis, 1 inferiore robustissimo, supra plano, apice reflexo-hamato; poe 
sub verticalibus, ovario et tubo brevi campanulato sepalis imbricati is, 
culato-cordatis 60-80 stipato; sepalis interioribus 25-30 ovatis Sbtisis, 
petalis lanceolatis mucronatis, Sark ; Stylo supra stamina numerosissi- 
ma brevia longe exserto; stigmatibus filiformibus 18-20 erectis; bacca 
ovata, lignosa, imbricato-squ ei 
N fiana, serie in August with buds, open flowers, young and 
ripe fruits on the e specimen. It belongs therefore to those Eichino- 
cacti which flower eisbiagh the whole season, like H. setispinus, Engelm., 
Qn Plant. Lindh.) = Texas, had $m are in flower only during a week 
or two in spring, e. g. #. terensis, Hpfr. In the latter, the young 
Relics of spines, together with ‘eas flower buds in their axills, come out 
at once in spring, and n ae more are formed during the season, while in 
