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Fr i nee Salm 



Oct. 13, , 1849 



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flexuosis instruetis. Plores ex apillis tubereul oti m- Juni orurr« - 

 In my note to this I say - hooce ^enus in plant a prive singulari 

 institutum est quam Mr. Hooker (Bot. Hag. t. ^393) . : recenter descrip- 

 sit, et quae absque dubio, ordine cactearum adnumeranda est; sed : lo- 

 cus ei tribuendus non facile de scernendus est,. Ob caulen tubercula- 

 tum f tiiberculaque pecu&iari modo elongata, ad tribun Helocnctaeum 

 (et in. ea ad genus Anhaloniuir) pertinere videtur;- sed flore longe 

 tubuloso, et presertim germine a prineipio enerso, ab ea onnino re- 

 cedit^; et hisce characteribus ad cereatrearum tribum spectat». - Dia- 

 gnosis ggeaere Leuchtenbergia a cl. Hooker tributa nullo ch araertere 

 e partibus f ruetif icationis- sunpto, a rrenere Cereo differt; e con- 

 spectu tabula e, at tarnen, patere videtur perigonii tubunr esse erra- 

 ciliorem quam in cereis, fauce an^ustore, et staminibus clausa:: Sta- 

 mina quoque tubo adlimbum- usque adnata sunt*-, .. et flos potens corol- 

 lam hypodiaterif orum, quam inf undibulif ormem ref ert.. Absunt ergoc 

 Discrimina quo edam ( procter caulis formam anomalem) ' quibus genus 

 Leuchtenbergia a ^enere Gereo- separari' potestr, et quamvis typum for- 

 te tribus nova (interne dlve inter Ec hlnocacteus et Cereastreas) 

 prebeatr, aptus esse se^sui, in praese n.ti r scientive statu Cereast- 

 trearunr tribus illui genus adscribere.. 



The plant itself was, aecording Hooker, brought to England by 

 Sir John Taylor, Esq f . and is supposeä to grow in Mex leo on the ri- 

 ver Rio del Monte*. It had been earlier raise (most likely from seed) 

 in the Petersburg garderr? at least, it came from there into our gar- 

 den ■ und er the naming given. by Fischer, Leuchtenbergia prineipis. - 

 May be, you would like the description, and though it is long-winded t , 

 I want to give it: 



* Gaulis erectus, pedere altus basi diametro 3» patticari , inf erne 

 s ubl i g n o s u s , nu d u s , c i c a t r i s a t u s , cortice gilvo; superne carnosus,, 

 crassus, tubiculatus* . Tuber cula apillis, nudis valde elongata (poll 



