ECHINOFOSSULOCACTUS. 
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Type locality: Mexico. 
Distribution: Mexico. 
Pfeiffer in 1837 attempted to identify Echinocactus obvallatus with certain plants then 
in the Schelhase collection, but later when he figured his plant he questioned this identifi¬ 
cation, although he did not rename it. Dietrich, however, in 1839, named the Echinocactus 
obvallatus Pfeiffer in part, as above. 
Echinocactus lancifer was used by Reichenbach (in Terscheck, Suppl. Cact. 2), but 
whether properly described or not we do not know. The name was, however, formally 
published by Walpers in 1843 (Repert. Bot. 2: 320), but this date was after Dietrich had 
published his name. Heynhold evidently considered Reichenbach’s name properly pub¬ 
lished for he changed Dietrich’s name to Echinocactus dietrichii. 
Illustration: Pfeiffer, Abbild. Beschr. Cact. 2: pi. 22 ( fide Index Kewensis), as Echino¬ 
cactus obvallatus. 
Figure 125 shows the illustration cited above. 
Fig. 124.—Echinofossulocactus phyllacanthus. Fig. 125.—Echinofossulocactus lancifer. 
21 . Echinofossulocactus gladiatus (Link and Otto) Lawrence in Loudon, Gard. Mag. 17:317. 1841. 
Echinocactus gladiatus Link and Otto, Verh. Ver. Beford. Gartenb. 3: 426. 1827. 
Melocactus gladiatus Link and Otto, Verh. Ver. Beford. Gartenb. 3: pi. 17. 1827. 
Echinocactus gladiatus ruficeps Lemaire in Labouret, Monogr. Cact. 215. 1853. 
Echinocactus gladiatus intermedins Lemaire in Labouret, Monogr. Cact. 215. 1853. 
Plant glaucescent, ovoid to oblong, 12.5 cm. high, 10 cm. in diameter with a depressed apex 
covered with connivent spines; ribs prominent, rather broad, obtuse, 14 to 22; spines 10, gray, 4 upper 
spines subulate, of these 3 usually ascending, the central spreading or porrect, the largest 5 cm. long, 
4 lower spines acicular; flowers and fruit unknown. 
Type locality: Mexico. 
Distribution: Probably eastern Mexico. 
Schumann in his monograph does not take for this name the plant as originally de¬ 
scribed and figured by Link and Otto, but a later description used by Pfeiffer and adopted 
by Salm-Dyck. The original Echinocactus gladiatus, based on Deppe’s plant, is very dif¬ 
ferent from Schumann’s plant. 
