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We own for several years a plant ( also at hone in New Mexico),, 

 which Fischer sent into the worldf from Petersburg (now Petrograd,, 

 E.D. ) without description und er the nane Leuchte^ bergj a ^inoipls ». 

 It was put under the cactii, though its entire habitat was differert,. 

 and one could take it rather for a Yucca, Dracena ». It f inally, bloo- 

 med in England, and Hooker pictured it in the Bot» Magazine t., 

 ^393 (vol. 7^« 18^8). Apparently it is a cactus; it forns a new ge~ 

 nusj: it could even forn a new tribus, if it did not stand entirely 

 alone l Where now to put it with its anomalous shape in my System 7? 

 Messrs. Lemaire and. Lehmann- considered it an Anhalonium. But I did 

 not permit myself to be fooled : , and stuck tightly to my systenr*. 

 The long-tubed flower, which postulates a germen imersunr a priori,, 

 separate«*" the plant from the tribus Melocacteae (and also fron the 

 genus Anhalonium) . It could. also not be pronerly put into Schinocacteae, 

 and, thus, it foung its place, in the tribus Cereustreae. Her- e , the,, 



- Leuchte nb ernria. 

 I had to apply a character to the genus KXKKKiÖffiiaHKaTdif f erent fron 



the genera Echlnopsis, Pilocereus and Cereus t And this I did in the 

 following wajr : : Leuchtenber gla Fischer Bot. Mag. t.^393 11 Pe^egonii; 

 tubus ultra germen longe granduetus,. phylla nunerosa, sepaloidea irr - 

 f eriora soquamif ormia, superiora elongata, ,spiraliter inbricata, axi - 

 Iiis nudis; petaloidea sub-bi seri ala , radianter patentia et corol- 

 lam hypoeraterifornem oenula.nt ia. . Stamlna tubo adlimbum usque con - 

 nata, tun übera,. brevia conniventia,, et tubr fuacem dardentla». 

 Stylus crassus, columnari s, stamlna superians. . Stigma m iltiradi a tun 

 radiis linearibus.. Bacca, et cotyledones i^notae. ** 



Gaulis carnosus oetate basi indurescensy clavatns,.tubercu - 

 latus; tuberculis valde el ongatis, attenuatis, triquetris, erecto- 

 recurvulis, apice truncatis pulvilli.o-eris; ptilvil lis setis gluma- 



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