ECHINOPSIS. 
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as Echinopsis salpingophora aurea; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 7, No. 21, 
as Echinopsis leucantha aurea ; Addisonia 4 : pi. 147. 
Plate vii, figure 2, shows a flowering plant brought from Mendoza to the New York 
Botanical Garden by Dr. Rose in 1915. 
21. Echinopsis obrepanda (Salm-Dyek) Schumann in Engler and Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 3 6<I : 184. 1894 
Echinocactus obrepandus Salm-Dyck, Allg. Gartenz. 13: 386. 1845. 
Echinocactus misleyi Cels, Portef. Ilort. 216. 1847. 
Echinopsis cristata Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 178. 1850. 
Echinopsis cristata purpurea Labouret in Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 76: pi. 4521. 1850. 
Echinopsis misleyi Labouret, Monogr. Cact. 291. 1853. 
Plant globose or somewhat depressed, 15 to 20 cm. in diameter; ribs 17 or iS, rather prominent, 
thin, strongly undulate, pale bluish green; areoles somewhat immersed in the rib; spines rigid, brown¬ 
ish; radial spines 10, spreading, or somewhat recurved, 12 to 16 mm. long; central spine solitary, 25 
mm. long, ascending, curved; flowers lateral, white or purplish, the tube 20 cm. long, green; scales 
on ovary and flower-tube acuminate, bearing an abundance of black hairs in their axils; inner 
perianth-segments large, serrate, mucronate. 
Type locality: Bolivia. 
Distribution: Bolivia. 
This plant was collected by Mr. 
Thomas Bridges in Bolivia in 1844 and 
first described by Salm-Dyck in 1845 as 
Echinocactus obrepandus , but when in 1850 
he transferred it to Echinopsis he changed 
the specific name to cristata. A part of 
Bridges’s material went to Kew; one of 
the specimens produced purple flowers, 
and another nearly white flowers; there is 
a possibility that more than one species 
was collected by Bridges at this time. The 
figures given in Gartenflora (38: f. 47) and 
Monatsschrift f fir Kakteenkunde (12:169) 
are not quite typical. Here Weber refers 
Echinopsis obliqua Cels (Diet. Hort. Bois 
472. 1896). 
The plant is known to us only from 
descriptions and illustrations. 
Illustrations: Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 78: 
pi. 4687; Gartenflora 38: f. 47 ; Jard. Fleur. 
1: pi. 73, 74; Loudon, Encyel. PI. ed. 3. 1378. f. 19386; Cassell’s Diet. Gard. 1: 315, as Echi¬ 
nopsis cristata; Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 76: pi. 4521, as Echinopsis cristata purpurea; Mollers 
Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 7, No. 5; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 12: 169; Gartenwelt 16: 
pi. opp. 106; 107. 
Figure 92 is copied from the first illustration above cited. 
22 . Echinopsis intricatissima Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires III. 4:491. 1905. 
Simple, somewhat ovoid, 20 cm. high, not depressed at apex; ribs 16; spines at first rose-colored, 
in age gray, elongated, 3 to 6 cm. long, the lowest ones 8 to 10 cm. long; radial spines 8 to 13; central 
spines 4 to 6, curved upward; flowers 20 to 22 cm. long; inner perianth-segments lanceolate, white; 
fruit 3 cm. long. 
Type locality: Near Mendoza, Argentina. 
Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 
Fig. 92.—Echinopsis obrepanda. 
