ASTROPH YTUM. 185 
Various hybrids have been produced by crossing this species with Astrophytum 
ornatum and A. myriostigma. 
Echinocactus capricornis major (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 19: 139. 1909) has never 
been described. 
Illustrations: Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1908: pi. 5, f. 2; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 14: 
183; 26: 135; Gartenwelt 15: 537; Sehelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 80, 81; Alianza Cientifica 
Universal 3: pi. opp. 190; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 474. f. 6, No. x ; Blanc, Cacti 41. 
No. 42o;Karsten and Schenck, Vegetationsbilder 2: pi. 20, as Echinocactus capricornis; 
Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 2: 82; Floralia 42 : 372, as Echinocactus capricornis minor; De Laet, 
Cat. Gen. f. 5, as Echinocactus capricornis major. 
Plate xxi, figure 1, is from a painting by E- I. Schutt of a plant collected by C. A. Pur- 
pus at Parras, Mexico. 
4 . Astrophytum ornatum (De Candolle) Weber.* 
Echinocactus ornatus De Candolle, Mem. Mus. Hist. 
Nat. Paris 17: 114. 1828. 
Echinocactus mirbelii Lemaire, Cact. Aliq. Nov. 22. 1838. 
Echinocactus holopterus Miquel, Linnaea 12: 2. 1838. 
Echinocactus tortus Scheidweiler, Bull. Acad. Sci. Brux. 
5:493. 1838. 
Echinofossulocactus mirbelii Lawrence in Loudon, Card. 
Mag. 17: 318. 1841. 
Echinocactus ghiesbrechtii Salm-Dyck, Allg. Gartenz. 
18: 395. 1850. 
Echinopsis haageana Linke, Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. 
1: 86. 1858. 
Echinocactus ornatus mirbelii Croucher, Gard. Chron. 
1873: 983. 1873- 
Echinocactus haageanus Riimpler in Forster, Handb. 
Cact. ed. 2. 469. 1885. 
Echinocactus ornatus glabrescens Schumann, Gesamtb. 
Kakteen 324. 1898. 
Subglobose to cylindric, 3 dm. high or more, 
the surface more or less white-floccose; ribs 8, rather 
prominent, 2 cm. high or more, acute; areoles 1 to 5 
cm. apart, felted; spines 5 to 11, subulate, yellow at 
first, becoming brown, often 3 cm. long; flowers large, lemon-yellow, 7 to 9 cm. broad; inner 
perianth-segments broadly oblong, with a broad, more or less serrated apex; scales on ovary 
very narrow. 
Type locality: Mexico. 
Distribution: Hidalgo and Oueretaro, Mexico. 
Dr. Rose collected this species in the deserts of eastern Oueretaro, Mexico, in 1905 (No. 
10286). 
Astrophytum glabrescens Weber (Diet. Hort. Bois 467. 1896) is given as a synonym of 
this species, although it has never been described. 
Echinopsis haageana Linke (Wochenschr. Gartn. Pflanz. 1: 86. 1858), although origi¬ 
nally described as probably from Peru, doubtless belongs to this species. 
Illustrations: Bliihende Kakteen 2: pi. 113; Cact. Journ. 1: pi. for September; 54; Ann. 
Rep, Smiths. Inst. 1908: pi. 13, f. 4; Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen f. 56; Gard. Mag. 4: 
279; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 474. f. 6, No. 19, as Echinocactus ornatus; Blanc, 
Cacti 50. f. 581; Sehelle, Handb. Kakteenk. f. 79, as Echinocactus ornatus mirbelii; Mollers 
Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 485. f. 17, as Echinocactus ornatus glabrescens; Gartenwelt 15: 537, 
as Echinocactus mirbelii ornatus; Gard. Chron. 1873: 983. f. 196, as Echinocactus mirbelii; 
Cact. Journ. 2: 173. 
Figure 196 is from a photograph furnished by Dr. W. E- Safford of the plant collected 
by Dr. Rose near Higuerillas, Mexico, in 1905. 
*This binomial has several times been credited to Weber, but has never been formally published. 
