. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 164 THE CACTACEAE. Type locality: Argentina. Distribu lion: Argentina. This species has a wide range in southern Argentina and consists evidently of several races differing in armament and relative length of the perianth-tube and limb. A plant from the Berlin Botanical Garden sent as Echinocactus quehlianus produced flowers identical with those of a plant of E. platensis brought by Dr. Rose from Cordoba. Illustrations: Bliihende Kakteen 2: pi. 105; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 474. f. 6, No. 21; Monatsschr. Ka
. The Cactaceae : descriptions and illustrations of plants of the cactus family. 164 THE CACTACEAE. Type locality: Argentina. Distribu lion: Argentina. This species has a wide range in southern Argentina and consists evidently of several races differing in armament and relative length of the perianth-tube and limb. A plant from the Berlin Botanical Garden sent as Echinocactus quehlianus produced flowers identical with those of a plant of E. platensis brought by Dr. Rose from Cordoba. Illustrations: Bliihende Kakteen 2: pi. 105; Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 474. f. 6, No. 21; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 10: 152; Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen Nachtr. f. 28, as Echinocactus quehlianus; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 17: 9; 29: 141, as Echinocactus Figs. 176 and 177.—Gymnocalycium platense. Plate xviii, figure 2, shows a plant in flower, brought by Dr. Rose in 1915 to the New York Botanical Garden from near Cordoba, Argentina; plate xix, figure 1, shows the flowering top of a plant received at the New York Botanical Garden from the Berlin Botanical Garden as Echinocactus quehlianus. Figure 176 is from a photograph of a plant from Argentina determined by Dr. Spegazzini as Echinocactus platensis leptanthus. Figure 177 is from a photograph contributed by Dr. Spegazzini; figure 178 is from a photograph also from Dr. Spegazzini, illustrating Echinocactus baldianus. 21. Gymnocalycium schickendantzii (Weber). Echinocactus schickendantzii Weber, Diet. Hort. Bois 470. 1896. Echinocactus delaetii Schumann, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 11: 186. 1901. Usually simple, sometimes depressed, up to 10 cm. in diameter; ribs usually 7, broad, more or less tuberculate; spines 6 or 7, all radial, more or less spreading, the larger ones flattened; flowers often from the side of the plant as well as central, white or pinkish in age, 5 cm. long; inner perianth- segments oblong to spatulate, obtuse; scales on the ovary and flower-tube purplish, broad and rounded. Type locality: Catamarca, Tucuman, Arg
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