. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. coche;miea. 21 5. COCHEMIEA (K. Brandegee) Walton, Cact. Journ. 2: 50. 1899. Plant-body cylindric, often much elongated, the surface covered with spirally arranged tuber- cles, these not milky; tubercles not grooved above; spines both central and radial; flowers borne from axils of upper old tubercles, narrowly tubular, curved and bilabiate; perianth-segments in 2 series; stamens and style red, exserted; ovary naked; fruit indehiscent, globular, red, naked, bearing a large scar at top; seeds black, reticulated. Ty
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. coche;miea. 21 5. COCHEMIEA (K. Brandegee) Walton, Cact. Journ. 2: 50. 1899. Plant-body cylindric, often much elongated, the surface covered with spirally arranged tuber- cles, these not milky; tubercles not grooved above; spines both central and radial; flowers borne from axils of upper old tubercles, narrowly tubular, curved and bilabiate; perianth-segments in 2 series; stamens and style red, exserted; ovary naked; fruit indehiscent, globular, red, naked, bearing a large scar at top; seeds black, reticulated. Type species: Mammillaria halei Brandegee. The genus was named for an Indian tribe which once inhabited Lower California. Mrs. Brandegee, who first separated these species as a subgenus, describes the flowers as "scarlet, tubular, slender, somewhat curved, and oblique, with spreading unequal petaloid sepals, so making the flower apparently double as in Cereus ; Four species are known, all inhabiting Lower Fig. 22.—Cochemiea halei. Fig. 23.—Cochemiea poselgeri. The fact that Cochemiea had been raised to generic rank, to which four species had been transferred, has been overlooked by all our botanical indexes. Walton's remarks in this connection are interesting: "The plants so classed have flowers very elongated, tubular, with sepals placed as a second ring, removed some distance below the petals; they are oblique like Epiphyllum truncatum and Cereus flagelliformis and in fact more resemble those flowers than they do those of any Mammillaria, so much so that I think it would be best to drop the generic name of Mammillaria and simply adopt Mrs. Brandegee's name of Cochemiea as a generic ; Mrs. Brandegee suggested (Erythea 5: 117), "It is possible that some of the elongated species of Mexico proper will be found to belong to this section when the flowers are better ; But we have seen no plants from the mainland
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