The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . pecies is very common in the deserts of the Province of Mendoza, especiallyabout the city of Mendoza, and in the mountain valleys farther to the west. The firstspecimens were doubtless sent out through Chile, for before the railroads this was the mostaccessible route out from Mendoza. Cereus myriophyllus Gillies (Allg. Gartenz. 1:365. 1833), given by Schumann as asynonym of this species, was never described and the name was referred here originally with * We have found that Echinocactus ceralistes Otto, one of the
The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family . pecies is very common in the deserts of the Province of Mendoza, especiallyabout the city of Mendoza, and in the mountain valleys farther to the west. The firstspecimens were doubtless sent out through Chile, for before the railroads this was the mostaccessible route out from Mendoza. Cereus myriophyllus Gillies (Allg. Gartenz. 1:365. 1833), given by Schumann as asynonym of this species, was never described and the name was referred here originally with * We have found that Echinocactus ceralistes Otto, one of the synonyms of Eriosyce, originally came from Bella-vista, Chile, also. i44 THE CACTACEAE. doubt. C. strigosus spinosior Salm-Dyck (Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1844. 27. 1845) and rufispinus (Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 7: 184. 1897) also belong here, and, per-haps, C. spinibarbis flavidus (Labourer., Monogr. Caet. 325. 1853). Illustration: Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 16: pi. 8, f. 1, as Cereus strigosus. Figure 211 is from a photograph taken by Dr. Shafer at Andalgala, Argentina, in *:/# 18. Trichocereus shaferi sp. nov. Cespitose, cylindric, 3 to 5 dm. high, 10 to cm. in diameter, light green; ribs about 14, 10to 15 mm. high; areoles approximate, 5 to 7 mm. apart, white-felted when young; spines about 10,acicular, 12 mm. long or less, light yellow; flowers from the top of plant, 15 to 18 cm. long; tubeslender;outer perianth-segments linear; inner segments probably white; scales of the ovary andflower-tube bearing long brown hairs. Collected by J. A. Shafer in wooded ravine, altitude 1,800 meters, near San Lorenzo,Salta, Argentina, January n, 1917 (No. 44). 19. Trichocereus schickendantzii (Weber). Echinopsis schickendantsii Weber, Diet. Hort. Bois 473. simple or cespitose, slender, 15 to 25 cm. high, 6 cm. in diameter, dark green, shiny;ribs 14 to 18, low, 5 mm. high, somewhat crenate; spines yellowish, flexible, 5 to 10 mm. long; radialspines at first 9, in age more
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