ee ve: 
onterey and the mo —_ of the Rio Grande; the Opuntia appears to extend 
also high up in Tex 
Together with thes a Dasylirion, perhaps the same as ape Texan 
species, was found here, and afterwards again near Saltillo. 
. From El Paso to Chihuahua, the road_ lies in part through ¢ a. dreadfully 
arid bandit Mathichs where-a peculiar Martynia?® was obser vedigiat sins, Seed 
intia vaginata, n. sp. caule lignoso, erecto, ramulis teretibus vix 
tuberculatis; areolis’orbiculatis, albo-tomentosis > Margine superiore fascieu- 
lum setarum brevium ‘fuscarum , inferiore aculeum elongatum cornet 
i inea involutum, deflexum gerentibus; floribus parvis, 
ovario obovato, areolis 13 tomentosis setigeris stipato; sep: lis  interioribus 8 
et petalis 5 obovatis mucronatis; bacca obovata profunde unibilicata, car- 
sa, aurantiaca, seminibus paucis. sot: 
e mountains near El Paso; in August in flower and frnit. Belongs  %% 
th Gpuiitine cylindraceae graciliores, (Salm-Dyck ;) perhaps ge tO. 3 
: stil Ne 
rently 3 or 4 feet high, ultimate branches 24 to 3 lines in diisienal spines 
single, 14 to 2 inches long, rarely with a-second smaller one, straight, 
more or less deflexed; epidermical sheath yellow or brownish, very loos 
at last comite off. Ov vary 4 to 5 lines long; flower 6 to 9 lines in aegis 
ter, pal , with a greenish tinge; stigma conic, with 5 me 
‘segments; fruit 7 to 8 lines | long. i? 
canthus, n. sp. ovato-oblongus, s. subcylindricus, *+ 
> costis reulatis subinterruptis, areolis me 
lane eolatis, junibeibus albo-villosis; aculeis albidis,. junioribus’ oma: 
radialibus sub-18 porrectis, summis brevioribus ae oe ater- 
erioribusque longioribus; centralibus 4-6 pluribus 
deflexis 
del pore Rib: specimen before me, one of: net Biecst , is 12. 
|, and 34 inches 8 below, and inches 2 above 
oa ame wool 
duous ; Sone spin 
tly compressed 6 to'7 lines Loe ‘oteane 5. 
y as long as the last, stouter than the others, 
‘osus,® which it resembles, it is distin- 
ines) rnd larger number and s size - ~ 
oso- pilosa’ oh 3 ie ernis 
P ieadsas spa denticu. 
