PLANTAS CACTEAS NOVAS ET 

 MINUS COGNITAS 



DESCKIBIT 



FR. A. GUIL. MIQUEL, 



(Tal). I. et 11.) 



/Testate hiijus aniii iniioiis Cacteariiin , in tcrris mcxicanls 

 colloctarnm copia, Loiuliuo in hortnm nostrnm raittebatur, 

 qiiarnin modo aliquas emcre licnlt , cum magni pretii vende- 

 rentiir. Intcr has autem, novae et memorabiles quaedam spe- 

 cies erant, de qnibus hie agere animns est *). 



1. Echinocactus :viphacanthus Mq, Depresso-he- 

 niiisphaerieus j vertice impresso sordide albo-lannginoso, co- 

 s^?s 34, approximatis, compressissimis, undnlato - flexuosis, ad 

 areolas aicuatim promiucntibns, dorsis obtnsiusculis sinnatis, 

 sinnbus angnstissimis, acutis, inferius dilatatls ; areolis dis- 

 sitis, juuioribus albido-floccosis, inferioribns nudis, impres- 

 sis. Spinis externis 4 — 5, brevioribns, panllo erectis, te- 

 retlusculis; centralibus 1 — 3, suprema planissima longissi- 

 ma, ensiformi - lauceolata basi subcarinata, arcuatim erecta; 



'•0 Ex eadem forte coUectione erant, quas Berolinum missas emen- 

 das indicat Cl. Otto in Allg. Gartenzeitnng No. 32 hiijus anni- 



nr Bd. IS Heft. 1 



