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central spines 4, 1 or 2 of them longer and hooked; flowers inodorous, 6 to 7 cm. long; inner perianth- 
segments linear-lanceolate, red; filaments dark purple; style yellowish; stigma-lobes 10, yellowish 
white, linear. 
Type locality: Near Cachi, Argentina. 
Distribution: In the high mountains of Salta, Argentina, altitude 2,500 meters. 
We know the plant only from a photograph and the original description. 
Spegazzini also gives the name Echinocactus cachensis (Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 
III. 4: 493. 1905), but does not formally publish it. 
Figure 68 is from a photograph contributed by Dr. Spegazzini. 
7 . Lobivia caespitosa (J. A. Purpus). 
Echinopsis caespitosa J. A. Purpus, Monatssehr. Kakteenk. 27: 120. 1917. 
Cespitose, the joints erect or spreading, short, cylindric; ribs 10 to 12, somewhat undulate, 
acutish; areoles 1 to 1.5 cm. apart, white-woolly; radial spines acicular, 12, brownish, 1 to 2 cm. long; 
central spine solitary, brown, somewhat curved, 5 cm. long or less; flowers from the side of the 
plant near the middle, short-funnelform, 6.5 to 8 cm. long, reddish within, yellowish red without; 
perianth-segments oblong, obtuse. 
Type locality: Bolivia. 
Distribution: Bolivia. 
We know this plant only from description and illustration. It is clearly not an 
Echinopsis. 
Illustration: Monatssehr. Kakteenk. 27: 121, as Echinopsis caespitosa. 
Fig. 69. — Lobivia shaferi. 
Fig. 70.—Lobivia saltensis. 
8 . Lobivia saltensis (Spegazzini). 
Echinopsis saltensis Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires III. 4: 487. 1905. 
Plants at first simple but becoming densely cespitose, light green, shining; ribs 17 or 18, low, 
obtuse, crenate; spines all short and straight; radial spines 12 to 14, 4 to 6 mm. long; central spines 
1 to 4, stouter than the radials, 10 to 12 mm. long; flowers on the side of the plant near the middle, 
inodorous, 4 cm. long; perianth-segments red, short, obovate, 10 to 12 mm. long, obtuse; scales on 
ovary naked in their axils (according to Spegazzini). 
Type locality: Near Amblaio, Argentina. 
Distribution: Between Tucuman and Salta, Argentina. 
Spegazzini also gives the name Echinocactus saltensis (Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 
III. 4: 487. 1905), but does not formally publish it. 
We know the plant only from a photograph and from the description; the character 
of the ovary-scales being without hairs in their axils is unusual in the genus. It is 
described as being only 6.5 cm. high. 
Figure 70 is from a photograph contributed by Dr. Spegazzini. 
