NEOPORTERIA. 
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Fig. 107—Neoporteria jussieui. Fig. 108. — Neoporteria chilensis. 
Illustrations: Bliihende Kakteen 2: pi. 67; (?) Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 27: 53, as 
Echinocactus jussieui. 
Figure 107 is copied from the first illustration above cited. 
5 . Neoporteria subgibbosa (Haworth). 
Echinocactus subgibbosus Haworth, Phil. Mag. io: 419. 1831. 
Cactus berteri Colla, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino 37: 77. 1833. 
Echinocactus acutissimus Otto and Dietrich, Allg. Gartenz. 3: 353. 1835. 
Echinocactus exsculptus Otto in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 65. 1837. 
Cereus dichroacanthus Martius in Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 76. 1837. 
Mammillaria atrata Hooker in Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 65: pi. 3642. 1839. 
Mammillaria floribunda Hooker in Curtis’s Bot. Mag. 65: pi. 3647. 1839. 
Echinocactus thrincogonus Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 22. 1839. 
Echinocactus thrincogonus elatior Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 23. 1839. 
Echinocactus berteri Remy in Gay, FI. Chilena 3: 15. 1847. 
Echinocactus rostratus Jacobi, Allg. Gartenz. 24: 108. 1856. 
Cactus atratus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 259. 1891. 
Cactus floribundus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 1: 259. 1891. 
Globose when young, soon cylindric, usually 3 dm. high and erect, but sometimes much elon 
gated, a meter long or more, either prostrate or hanging over cliffs, very spiny; ribs numerous, often 
20, 1 cm. high; areoles approximate, often large, sometimes 1 cm. in diameter; spines numerous, aci- 
cular, brownish in age, often paler at base, straight, the longest ones 3 cm. long; flowers usually abun¬ 
dant, 4 cm. long, the buds dark red, pointed; perianth-segments usually light pink, but sometimes 
darker, very numerous, the outer ones spreading, the central ones erect, concealing the stamens, 
acute; filaments attached below middle of flower-tube, erect, white, included; style slender, pale, 
slightly exserted; scales on ovary minute, acute, horny, those on tube hairy and bristly; fruit 1.5 
to 2 cm. long, reddish; seeds brown, 1 mm. in diameter. 
Type locality: Near Valparaiso, Chile. 
Distribution: Along the seacoast of Chile, both north and south of Valparaiso. 
Echinocactus exsculptus Otto, when first described, was a complex. Pfeiffer (Enum. 
Cact. 65. 1837) says it comes from Chile, Mexico, and Montevideo; he referred here several 
