ECHINOCACTE Æ. | T E 
Flores in ambabus varietatibus omnino similes sunl; - 
magni, diametro bipollicari, breve tubulosi; phyllis se- 
paloideis imbricatis, erectis, lanceolatis, brunneis; peta- 
loideis recurvato - palenlissimis, elongato - lanceolatis, - 
aculiusculis, albis, linea media tenui rosea notatis. 
(73.) E. Wircrawsu Lem. E. caule humili cinera- 
scente viridi inferne rimoso superne tuberculato, tuber- — 
culis latis obsolelissime polyédris in costas 10 subcon- - 
fluentibus, pulvillis remotiusculis inermibus, lana cine- 
7 m a x 
rascente dcus longa, in penicillum erectum collecta — — 
instructis. (Nob.) 
Caulis e radice fusiformi poll. 9 altus, totidem ad 
ullra crassus, vertice impresso; supra tuberculatus virens. 
inferne tuberculis obliteratis teres, rimosus, cinereo- - 
fulvus. Tubercula in plantis junioribus obsolete 5-6 — — 
gona, nuda, in senectis planiora, confluentia, pulvilli- 
gera. Pulvilli 5-6 lineas distantes rotundati, penicillo 
lane dense, basi erect gilvie, superne crispatulæ ci- 
nercæ instructi. Flores parvuli, phyllis parum numero- — — 
SiS ereclis, exlerioribus apice recurvulis, interioribus. 
strictis, integerrimis, acutis, glabris, pallide roseis, — 
exius cum linea saturate rubra. Stamina connivenlia, 
flavida, stylo sligmalibusque 3 flavescentibus vix breviora. 
(74.) E. wurvirLonvs Hook. E. depresso - globosus 
obscure viridis subglaucescens tuberculatus vix costatus, 
luberculis magnis verticaliter oblongis hemisphewrice po- — 
minentibus mamm:eformibus demum confluentibus , im 
series subverlicales irregulariter dispositis, areolis ova- - 
libus tomentosis, aculeis 5 validis reflexo -patentibus 
recurvalis subadpressis subsqualibus, floribus numero- - 
Sis (pro plante ratione) magnis albis. (Hooker. Bot. x 
Mag. i. 4181.) 
