ECHINOPSIS. 
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Type locality: Corumba, Brazil. 
Distribution: Province of Goyaz, Brazil. 
Illustrations: Bliihende Kakteen 2 : pi. 61; U. S. Dept. Agr. Bur. PI. Ind. Bull. 262 : 
pi. 3; Sehelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 52. 
Figure 85 is copied from the first illustration above cited. 
14. Echinopsis cordobensis Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires III. 4 : 4S9. 1905. 
Plants simple, large, 4 to 5 dm. high, 3 to 3.5 dm. thick, ellipsoid, dull green, somewhat glau¬ 
cous; ribs 13, straight, acute, stout, not crenate; spines all straight, at first dark, then gray; radial 
spines 8 to 10, 10 to 20 mm. long; central spines 1 to 3, the lower one largest, 3 to 5 cm. long, bulbose 
at base; flowers erect, with little or no odor, 20 to 22 cm. long; axils of scales on ovary and flower-tube 
villous; inner perianth-segments white, acute; fruit globose, 2.5 cm. long, yellowish red. 
Type locality : Near Villa Mercedes, province of Cordoba, 
Argentina. 
Distribution: Rare in province of Cordoba, Argentina. 
15. Echinopsis ancistrophora Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Bueno; 
Aires III. 4 : 492. 1905. 
Stem simple, subglobose, 5 to 8 cm. in diameter, shining greens 
ribs 15 or 16, stout, 1 cm. high, broad at base, somewhat crenate; 
radial spines 3 to 7, slender, spreading backward, 5 to 15 mm. long; 
central spine solitary, more or less curved or hooked, 1 to 2 cm. long; 
flowers inodorous, 12 to 16 cm. long; outer perianth-segments green, 
linear, acuminate; inner perianth-segments white, oblong, acute; 
fruit ellipsoid, 1.6 cm. long, 8 mm. in diameter; scales on ovary and 
flower-tube small, their axils lanate. 
Type locality: Between Tucuman and Salta, Argentina. 
Distribution: The high mountains between the provinces 
of Tucuman and Salta, Argentina. 
We have not seen specimens of this species, which 
Spegazzini says is rare. 
Figure 86 is from a photograph contributed by Dr. 
Spegazzini. 
16. Echinopsis spegazziniana sp. nov. 
Stem simple, slender, dull green, about 3 dm. high and 9 cm. 
thick; ribs 12 to 14, low, slightly crenate; radial spines 7 or 8, 
straight, subulate, brown; central spine one, a little curved, much 
longer than the radials, 2 cm. long; flowers lateral, from near the 
middle of the plant, 15 to 17 cm. long; perianth-segments short, broad, acute, white; scales on ovary 
and tube small, very hairy in their axils. 
This species which was found near Mendoza, Argentina, was first identified as Echinop¬ 
sis salpingophora by Von Preinreich (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 163. 
1893) and later as E. campylacantha by R. Meyer (Monatsschr. Kak¬ 
teenk. 5: 27. 1895), both erroneously. 
Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 3: 161, as E. salpingophora; 
Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 46, as E. campylacantha. 
Figure 88 is from a photograph contributed by Dr. Spegazzini. 
17. Echinopsis shaferi sp. nov. 
Simple, erect, cylindric, up to 1.5 meters high, 16 to 18 cm. in diameter, 
dark green; ribs 10 to 12, 2 cm. high, separated by acute intervals; areoles 
approximate, 1 cm. apart or less; radial spines straight, at first brownish, but 
gray in age, slender, subulate, 6 to 9, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long, somewhat spreading; 
Fig. 87.—Fruit of 
Echinopsis shaferi. 
Natural size. 
