. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Tim CACTACEAE. 1. Borzicactus sepium (HHK.). Cacti/* . Ihuuboldt. Bonplaml, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. ct Sp. 6: 67. 1823. Cere us .•if/niini I>c Catulnlk-, I'nxlr. 3:467. 1828. ( istocactus scfimii \Vcber in Gossclin. Bull. Mriis. Soc. Nice 44: 36. 1904. Bo; icacttu .;-nliini^liac Kiccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. I'aU-rmo 8: 262. 1909. ivnliminliac Yaupel, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23: 13. Fro. 229.—Top of plant of Borzicactus sepium. Stem slender, simple, columnar, meters high, about 4 cm. thick; ribs 8 to 1 1, crenate, obtuse;
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Tim CACTACEAE. 1. Borzicactus sepium (HHK.). Cacti/* . Ihuuboldt. Bonplaml, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. ct Sp. 6: 67. 1823. Cere us .•if/niini I>c Catulnlk-, I'nxlr. 3:467. 1828. ( istocactus scfimii \Vcber in Gossclin. Bull. Mriis. Soc. Nice 44: 36. 1904. Bo; icacttu .;-nliini^liac Kiccobono, Boll. R. Ort. Bot. I'aU-rmo 8: 262. 1909. ivnliminliac Yaupel, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 23: 13. Fro. 229.—Top of plant of Borzicactus sepium. Stem slender, simple, columnar, meters high, about 4 cm. thick; ribs 8 to 1 1, crenate, obtuse; arcoles lo 2 cm. apart; radial spines 8 to 10, slender, spreading, 5 to 10 mm. long; central spine solitary, about 2 cm. long; spines all dark red with yellowish bases when young, gray in age; flowers somewhat /ygomorphic, about 4 cm. long, 3 cm. broad; scales on ovary and flower-tube woolly in their axils; outer perianth-segments lanceolate, erect, scarlet; inner perianth-segments cuneate, reel; pistil slightly exceeding the stamens; stigma-lobes 10, short, green- ish; fruit globular, 2 cm. in diameter ; flesh of fruit white ; seeds numerous. 7"v/v locality: Near Riobamba, at foot of Chimborazo, Ecuador. Distribution: Dry hills along the interandean valley of Ecuador from San Antonio to Riobamba. The plant blooms from July to September, while the flowers are said to remain open for 48 hours. A careful examination of the description of Humboldt's Cactus si-pium convinces us that it is the same as Borzicactus I'cnliiuigliac. Not only are the two descriptions similar, but the two types came from the high Andes of Ecuador and a plant sent by Mr. Riccobono from Palermo as B. ventimigliac is the same as one sent from the Berlin Botanical Garden as Ccreus sepium. Dr. Rose, when in Ecuador in 1918, visited Riobamba, but did not see this species there; but he did find it a little north on the hills about Ambato (No. 22389). He also saw what he took to be this species betw
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