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MA ROU ie New species ard notes of 10a. > KARE R, CHARLES A.: eding of farm Utah riants, —Mixrner mental tree planting in the Mraes. APs KANNEIDY, P. BAVERIDGH: —Salthyches, 11e KUNZ. GHORGH FREDERICK: —Gems ard precious stones of Ner:h America. $10, 53 among a hundred is but little over an inch in height and diameter, and in earlier days they were literally worth their weight in gold. The flowers are open only in sunlight. Variety PECTINATA KS. Genus PHWYULOCACTUS Link. Epiphytal plants with spineless flatten- ed leaf-like branches, with a prominent midrib, mostly with large showy flowers, from creamy white to the richest crim- son and scarlet, produced from notches in the margins of the stems. Readily produced by cuttings or seeds, the phyllocacti are established favorites, and hundreds of varieties have been pro- duced by hybridization. Young growth often cylindrical, then triangular, finally assuming the flattened form. PHYLLOCACTUS ACKERMANNI Walp. The King cactus was taken from Mexico to England prior to 1829 hy George Ackermann, and bears the most gorgeous flowers, 6 to 8 inches in di- ameter, the acutely pointed, wavy pet- als of a deep brilliant crimson, bor- dered at the base with bright mag- enta, the interior decorated with a mass of white filaments and antlers, the 11 stigmata and style also white. The plant blooms freely and may be seen in many San Diego gardens. before me is about a foot high and bears one open flower and three buds today (May 3, 1900). PHYLLOGAICTUS ACUMINATUS KS. State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PHYLLOCACTUS ANGULIGER Lem. PHYLLOCACTUS BIFORMIS Lab. Henduras, Central America. PHYLLOCACTUS CRENATUS Walp. Honduras, Central America. PHYLLOCACTUS HOOKERI S. PHYLLOCACTUS KAMPMANNI Hort. Kampmann’s Case-knife cactus is a less robust plant than the King cactis, and the fiowers are only about 3 inches in diameter, the petals broader in pro- portion, of a bright, but lighter, crim- son. Filaments white, antlers canary yellow. ‘This is a general favorite in San Diego gardens ,also, producing its lovely flowers in the greatest profusion. PHYLLOCACTUS LATIFRONS Walp. The Queen cactus is quite the giant among’ the Phyllocacti, the stowt fiat- tened stems 4 to 5 inches broad, deeply crenated and commonly 8 to 19 feet high. The flowers are 7 to 8 inches long, about 6 inches in diameter, the petals of a delicate, clear, creamy white, the The vlant . Cacti.—Orcutt, 54 sepals and tube of a reddish hue, Na- tive of Mexico. PHY LLOCACTUS Link. PHYLLOCACTUS Link. PHYLLOCACTUS PEHYLLOCACTUS PHYLLOCACTUS :STRICTUS Lem. PHYLLOCAICTUS THOMASIANUS PHYLLOCACTUS WRAY! Hort. PHYLLANTHOIDES PHY LLANTHUS ‘RUSSELLIANUS 8. STENOPETALUS. 8S. KS. Genus PILOCKREUS Lemuive, Included under the genus Cereus. Tribe OPUNTIBMAE. Calyx tube not extending beyond the Ovary; stems branched and jointed. Genus HARIOTIA Adans. Adans Fam 2:248 (1763). This genus is generally treated as a synonym of Rhipsalis, to which we refer all the species. =chumann maintains the genus as defined by De Candolle. Hi. alternata Lem Hort Univ i t 50, is R. paradoxa. OM. cassytha Cels ex Foersit Handb, 458, is ' Re cassytha. H. cribrata Lem Ill Hort iv Mise 12 (257), is R. saglionis? ] Hi. floccosa Cels, ex Foerst Handb 458, is R. floccosa. ' H. funalis Cels, ex HMoerst Handb 457, is R. funailis. H. mesembrianthemoides Lem Cact Aliq Now Desc 39,is R. mesambrianthemo‘des H. pentaptera Lem ex Foerst Handb 453, is R. pentaptera. HA. prismatica Lem Ill Hort x Mise 84 (1863), is R. tetragona? H. caglionis Lem Cact Aliq Nov Desc 39, is R. saglionis. HARIOTA SALICORNIOIDE'S DC. Rhipsalis salicornioides Haworth, Brazil. Variety BAMBUSOJIDHS Weber. HMARIOTA VILLIGHIRA KS. TGS AML ee ANSE (SIRs wi©,, IBieelanlle H. eclavata Web U §8, is R. clavata. Genus RHIPSALIS Gaertn. RHIPSALIS CASSYTHA Gaertn. RHIPSALIS SALICORNIOIDES Haw. of Schlumbergeral epiphylloides Phyllocactus Russellianus. Stromatocactus Kotschubeyi Anhalonium sulcatum §. Tephrocactus andicolus Lem, is Opuntia andicola. Tephrocactus aoracanthugs Lem, is Opun- tia. andicola Pf. Tephrocactus diadematus Lem, is Opun- tia diademata. Lem, is Karw, is Tephrocactus platyacanthus Lem, is Opuntia platyacantha. Zygocactus Altenstemii KS, is Epiphyl- Jum truneatum fide KS. Genus PREIVRHRRA Salm. PFRIFFHRA CEREIFORMIS Salm. A synonym of Rhipsalis cereiformis. 55 Genus MATHUENIA Phil. M. POHPPIGIL Weber. M. BRACHYDELPHYS KS. M. PHILIPPII Weber. PTEROCACTUS KUNTZHEI KS. Rebutia minuscula KS, is Hchinocactus minusculus. Genus PE'RESKIA Plum. PERESKIA ACULEATA Mill. The Barbadoes gooseberry or Blad-ap- ple; the leaves resemble those of the or- ange; much used for grafting purposes. West Indies. PERESKIA BLEO P DC. PHERESKIA LYCHNIDIFLORA; P DC. PEIRESKIA PANAMENSIS Web. PERESKIA TAMPICANA Web. Genus NOPALEA Salm. Erect, branching plants, with fiattened elongated joints; tlowers red or crimson, petals erect and slightly approaching each other at the apex, stamens longer than the corolla. NOPALHA AUBEHRI Salm-Dyck. Cuba; rapid growth; arborescent in form, and bearing numerous rose-colored flow- ers with exsert stamens; the branches armed with stout spines; readily grown from cut- tings. NOPALEA COCCINELLIFERA Salm. _ The cochineal cactus, a native of Mex- ico. NOPALEA DEVECTA Salm. Salm-Dyck, Hort Dyck ed 2, 64, 233. Cuba. NOPALHA KARWINSKIANA S. NOPALEA MONILIFORMIS KS. Genus OPUNTIA Tournefort. “Tube of the flower very shorf, cup- shaped: petals spreading or rarely erect: ovary with bristle-bearing areolaé in the axils cf small ierete deciduous sepa!s: berry succulent or sometimes dry, mark- ed with biistly or spiny areolae, truncate. with a wide umbilicus: seeds large, white, compressed, w.th the embryo coiled round the albumen; cot ledo.is lage, folia- ceous.—Articulated, much-branched plants, of various shapes, low and pros- trate or erect and shrub-like; young branches with small terete subulate carly deciducus leaves, and in their axils an areo’'a with numerovs short easily de- tached bristles, and, usually, stouter spines, all barbed. Flowers on the joints of the previous year, on the same areolae with the spines, mostly large, open only in sunlight. Fruit often edible, often large.’’—E. : Opuntia auberi Pf, is Nopalea auberi. Opuntia camuessa Web, is| robusta. Opuntia decumana Gris, is monacantha. Opuntia flavicans Lem, is robusta. Opuntia maxima Hort (non Web), is ro- busta, Opuntia stenopeta'la H, is glauscescens. Subgenus CYLINDROPUNTIA E.— “Joints cylindrical, more or less tubercu- Cacti.—Orcutt. 56 lated; rhaphe usually not prominent, therefore seed not margined; embryo forming less than one circle around the more copious albumen; cotyledons incon- stant, contrary, oblique, or parallel to the Sides of the seed.’’—E. OPUNTIA ACANTHOCARPA E. & B. “Arborescens; ramis alternis adscen- dentibus; articulis cylindricis; tuberculis elongatis; aculeis 8-25 stellato-divarica- tis; bacca subglobosa tuberculata acule- ata; seminibus multangularis. Mountains of Cactus Pass, between Santa Fe and the western Colorado. Stems 5-6° high; branches few, alternate, and separating from the stem at an acute angle. Joints as in JO. arborescens] 4-6 or 8/’ long, about an inch in diameter; tubercles 9-19 lines long; interior spines 1-14’, exteri- or ones 4-10 lines long. Spines of fruit on the depressed tubercles 3-6 lin. long. Seeds large, unlike those of any other Opuntia seen by me.’’—E syn 308. ?0. californica E Emory’s rep 157 f 11, OPUNTIA ALCAHESS Web. OPUNTIA ANDICOLA Pfeiffer. OPUNTIA AORACANTHA Lem. OPUNTIA ARBORESCENS Engelm. ‘‘Caule ligneo erecto, ramis horizon- talibus, ramulis cylindricis, tuberculatis’ aculeatissimis; areolis oblongis, brevissi- me tomentosis, aculeos 12-30 corneos stramineo-vaginatos teretes undique por- rectos gerentibus; ramulis versus apicem floriferis; ovario tuberculato, tuberculis sub-20 apice sepala subulata et areolas tomentosas cum Ssetis paucis albidis ger- entibus; sepalis interioribus 10-13 obova- tis; petalis obovatis, obtusis s. e margin- atis; stigmatibus sub-8 patulis; bacca fla- va, sicca, ovato-globosa, tuberculata, profunde umbilicata. Mountains of New Mexico to Chihuahua, Parras and Saltil- lo; flowers in May and Je; fruit, at least about Santa Fe. ripening the 2nd year (Fendler); in the north 5-10, south 20 and more feet high, 5-10’ in diam, last branches 2-4’ long; spines of the speci- mens on Waggon-mound 20-30 in each bunch; further south only 12-20, gener- 57 Cacti.- ally feweronthe under side _ of branchlets; spines horn-colored, with straw-colored loose sheaths, from 3-10 lines, generally about 6 lines long. Flow- ers purple, 3’ in diam; stamens red; fruit about 1’ Jong, yellow. ‘On Wageon-mound the first (flower- less) specimens of a strange Opuntia were found, with an erect, ligneous stem, and cylindrical, hhorridly spinous horizontal branches. The plant wes here ony 5 ft high, but grows about Santa Fe to the height of 8 or ro ft, and continues to be found as far as Chihuahua and Par- ras. In the latter more favorable climate it grows to be a tree of 20 or 30, and perhaps even 40 feet high, as Dr. Wisli- zenus informs me, and offersa most beautiful aspect when covered with its large red flowers. It is evidently the plant which Torrey and James doubtful- ly, though incorrectly, refer to Cactus Bleo HBK. It is nearly allied to Opun- tia furiosa, Willd. but well distinguished from it; * * * the tree cactus, or Focon- oztle, as called by the Mexicans, accord- ing to Dr. Gregg. The stems of the dead plant present 4 most singular ap- pearance; the soft parts having rotted a- way. a net-work of woody fibres re- mains, forming a hollow tube, with very regular rhombic meshes, which corre- spond with the tubercles of the living plant.’’—E Wislizenus’ report, go. OPUNTIA ARBUSCULA HE. OPUNTIA AUSTRALIS Web. OPUNTIA BERNARDINA Engelm. OPUNTIA BIGELOVILI Engelm. “Ramis erectis adscendentibusve; ar- ticulis ovato-cylindricis pallide virescen- tibus congestis; tuberculis subhemi- sphericis depressis confertis: aculeis 6- io robustioribus et totidem gracilioribus inferioribus; ovario tuberculato; bacca tuberculata subinda (sterili!) aculeolata; seminibus parvis. On William’s river of the Californian Colorado. Stem 3-4’ thick and r1o-12 ft the —Orcutt. 58 high, the branches formins gy a dense tracted head, with joints 2-6/7 bercles 3-4 lines long; about 17 ‘smaller long.”’—E Am ac pr 3:307. OPUNTIA BRACHYARTHRA OPUNTIA BULBISPINA BE. OPUNTIA CHREFORMIS Web. OPUNTIA CHOL LAW eb, OPUNTIA CIRIBHD FE. OPUNTIA CLAVARIOIDES OPUNTIA CLAVATA. BE. OPT Nt [A CORRUGAY'A S. OPUNTIA CUKASSAVICA Mill. OPUNTIA CYLINDRICA DC. OPUNTIA DARWINIL Hensl. OPUNTIA DAVISII E. & B. OPUNTIA DIADEMATA Lem. OPUNTIA HCHINOCARPA HEH. & B. OPUNTIA FHMORYI Engelm. OPUNTIA FLOCCOSA S. OPUNTIA FRAGILIS Haw. OPUNTIA FULGIDA Engelm. OPUNTIA GHISSEI R A Phil. OPUNTIA GRAHAMII Engelm. OPUNTIA GRATA R A Phil. OPUNTIA IMBRICATA P DC. OPUNTIA INVICTA Brandegee. OPUNTIA) KLEINIAE P DC. OPUNTIA LHONINA H-S. OPUNTIA LHPTOCAULIS DC. OPUNTIA ‘LURIDA Hort. OPUNTIA MAMILLATA Scechet. OPUNTIA MIQUELII Monv. OPUNTIA MOLEST'A Brandegee. OPUNTIA NiGRISPINA KS. OPUNTIA OVATA Pf. OPUNTIA PARISHII Orcutt. OPUNTIA PARRYI E. OPUNTIA PENTLANDII S. OPUNTIA PLATYACANTHA 5S. OPUNTIA PROLIFHRA Engelmann. OPUNTIA PULCHELLA B&. OPUNTIA PYCNACANTHA BE. Opuntia ramos'ssima Ei, is tessellata. OPUNTIA ROSEHA DC. OPUNTIA ROSIFLORA KS. OPUNTIA ROTUONDIFOLIA KS. OPUNTIA SALMIANA Parm. OPUNTIA SICHICKHNDANTZII Web. OPUNTIA SCHOTTII E. OPUNTIA SHRPEHINTINA Engelmann. OPUNTIA SPHEGAZZINII Web. OPUNTIA SPINOSISSIMA Mill. OPUNTIA STAPHLIAH P DC. OPUNTIA SUBULATA Engelm. OPUNTIA TARAPACANA R A Phil. OPUNTIA TERES Cels. OPUNTIA THESAJO Engelm. “With very short woody stem, and growing in little clumps 3 dm or less in diameter; joints slender and not distinctly tuberculate; flowers simple, bel!-shaped, yellow. Type, Gabb 26 in hb Mo bot gard. ‘Among rocks, especially toward the west coast and in the more central rortions’, Lower California.’’—Coulter, Cont Na hb 3-448, OPUNTIA TESSELLATA Engelm. OPUNTIA THURBERI E. OPUNTIA TUNICATA L-O. OPUNTIA VERSCHAFFELTII Cels. OPUNTIA VERSICOLOR BE. OPUNTIA VESTITA S. COM tu- Are long; larger spines long, ones 4-7 lines KEK. & B. L-O. OPUNTIA WHIPPLEI E. & B. OpuUNTIA TETRACANTHA Toumey. §Cylindropuntia. “An _ irregularly branching shrub 6-15 dm high; primary branches erect or ascending from a stout woody trunk 5-8 cm in diameter, and bearing numerous short, lateral branch- es at irregular intervals; ultimate branch- es 12-I5 mm in diameter; joints cylindri- cal, 25-30 cm long, with a reticulated woody skeleton; tubercles at first promi- nent, 16-22 mm long, but on old. stems more or less inconspicuous; pulvini spar- ingly covered with wool and bearing a small crescent-shaped tuft of light brown bristles at the upper margin; spines usu- ally 4, stout, loosely sheathed, straw- colored, strongly deflexed, flattened, 2- 3.5 cm long, occasionally 1 or 2 smaller ones, not increasing in size and number after first season’s growth; glands con- spicuous, a half dozen or more between the spines and bristles; flowets greenish purple, 1.5-2cm broad; fruit ovate to -subglobose, narrowly but deeply umbili- cate, 2-25 cm long, juicy, scarlet, usual- ly nearly smooth, but sometimes some of the pulvini bearing 1-3 strong deflex- ed spines; seeds irregular, 3-5 mm _ in diameter, commissure broad, with con- spicuous spongy appearance.”—Toumey Garden and Forest 9: 432 (28 N 1896). ‘An interesting species of Cylindro- punua grows in considerable abundance about 5 miles east of Tucson, but, so far as known, only in this one locality. It seems to be nearest related to Opuntia Thurberi E., but differs from that plant, so far as one can judge from the incom- plete description and examination of type material in the Engelmann herba- rium, initslonger more strongly de- flexed spines, smaller and_ different-col- ored flowers, etc. It may be known from all related species by its bright scarlet fruit, 4 strongly deflexed spines and peculiar cork-like margin to the seeds. This planc and O. leptocaulis are the only Opuntias with which I am familiar that produce small lateral bran- ches no larger than the fully developed fruits, the function of which seems to be to drop to the ground and develop into new plants. The fruit matures in Dec., but remains attached to the plant until the following May. It has an agreable acid flavor and its bright color makes it very conspicuous against the green stems.’’—Toumey l.c. Cacti.—Orcutt. \ 60 This is probably O. Stanlyi, of which the following description is all that is known:— ‘Opuntia? Oct. 22, 1846. Abun- dant on the Del Norte and Gila. A re- markable plant, apparently more like a Mamillaria than like an Opuntia. The fruit is also represented without areolae or tubercles, exactly like the smooth fruit of a Mamiliaria; but this may be an oversight of the artist. The habit of the plant suggests the belief that it is an Opuntia of the section Cylindracee. Joints or branches ascending, cylindri- cal, tuberculated, 4-6 inches long, 1-114 inclees in diameter; tubercles very prom- Inent, with about 8 long (1-11 inches) straight spines; fruit obovate, umbilicate, scarlet, towards the top of the branches, about 9 lines long and 6 in diameter. It is a distinct species, which I am gratified to dedicate to the skilful artist who has drawn all these figures, —Mr. J. M. Stan- ly.”-—B in Emory'r 158 £0. Subgenus PLATOPUNTIA E.—‘‘Joints compressed; rhaphe forming a prominent bony margin around the seed; embryo completing a little more than one circle around the scanty albumen; cotyledons . contrary to the sides of the seed.’’—E. OPUNTIA ANGUSTATA KE. & B. OPUNTIA ARENARIA Engelm. OPUNTIA AURANTIACA Gil. OPUNTA BASILARIS kKngelm. Variety RAMOSA Parish. OPUNTIA BECKERIANA KS. OPUNTIA CAMANCHICA E-B. OPUNTIA CANDELABRAFORMIS Mart. OPUNTIA CHLOROTICA Engelm. OPUNTIA. CRASSA Haw. OPUNTIA CRINIFE RA. Pf. OPUNTIA DECUMBENS S. OPUNTIA DULCIS Engelm. OPUNTIA ENGELMANNI Slm-Dyck. OPUNTIA FICUS-INDICA Mill. OPUNTIA FILIPENDULA BE. OPUNTIA FOLIOSA S&S. OPUNTIA FULVISPINA Slm-Dyck. OPUNTIA FUSCOATRA E. OPUNTIA GALAPAGE!JA Hensl. OPUNTIA GLAUCESCENS S&S. OPUNTIA GLAUCOPHYLLA Wendl. OPUNTIA GRANDIS_ Hort. OPUNTIA HYSTRICINA E-B. OPUNTIA HYPTIACANTHA Web. OPUN' IA INAMOENA KS. OPUNTIA INERMIS P LC. OPUNTIA LANCHOLATA Haw. OPUNTIA LARREYI Weber. “Plant only 9-12 dm high, with large or- bicular glaucous joints; fruit ‘as large as a goose egg’, juicy, pulny, and with pur- ple pulp; seeds small ‘much liks those of O. ficus indica’. Type unknown. A Mex- ican species, found by Dr. Weber about Queretaro, and pronounced by him the most delicious of a.l the fruits he had tasted. Known as ‘camuessa’.—Coulter, Cont Na hb 3:428. 61 OPUNTIA LHUCOTRICHA P DC, Opuntia lindheimeri EH, is Mngelmannii. OPUNTIA MACROCENTRA Engelm. OPUNTIA MACRORHIZA Engelm. CPUNTIA MACULACANTHA F, OPUNTIA MICRODASYS Pfeiff. OPUNTIA MICRODISCA Web. Or UNTIA MICnOSCARPA KS. OPW TA MISSOURLIENSIS P DC. OPUNTIA MONACANTHA Haw. OPUNTIA NIGRICANS Haw. OPUNTIA OCCIDHNTALIS Hngelm, OPUNTIA OLIGACANTHA S. OPUNTIA PALMERI Enge m. “onts oval, smosth (not tuberculated), pale glaucous, 20-25 em long by 15-20 cm broad; pulvini 2.5-8 cm apart, with pale brownish or gray persistent wool, a few very sender ctraw-colored bristles, and ‘lender flactened or compressed straw.s eolored spines 2.5-3 cm long (5-7 cn upper pulvini with some sma.ier aid-tional anes, 18 on lower julvini), erect or S.,reading, or the upper ones (from upper part of pulvinus) mostly deflexed. Type, Paimer of 1877 in hb Mo bot gard. Near Pigs eotsS Utah.’’—Coulter, Cont Na hb 2-492. OPUNTIA PE3-CCRVI Le Conte. OPUNTIA PHAHACANTHA Engelm. OPUNTIA FiLIFERA Web. OPUNTIA PO: .YANTHA Haw. OPUNTIA PROCUMBENS E-B. OPUNTIA PUBHMRULA, Pf. OPUNTIA PYRRHACANTHA KS. OPUNTTA QUIMILO KS. OPUNTIA QUITENSIS WEb. OPUNTIA RAFINESQUII Engelm. OPUNTIA RHODANTHA KS. OPUNTIA ROBUS?7 A Wendl. OPUNTIA RUBHSCENS S. OPUNTIA RUBRIFOLIA Engelm. “Pros'rate, with thick ovate jonts 12-15 cm cng by 10 cm broad, not tuberculated; leaveS spreading, somewhat recurved, reddish, 8-10 mm long; pulvini 2-2.5 cm apart, with ~ brownish-gray persistent wool and numerous ye: owish bristles (es- pecially on the upper edge); spires often twisted, 2.5-6 cm long, often a few addi- tional smaller ones, all defiexed (almost aopress-d); iowers and fruit unknown. Vee maciimcr 3 iieempr Mio) bot sard.) Si Ccoige, Utah.’’—Coulter, Cont Na hb 3:424. OPUNTIA RUFIDA Engelm. OPUNTIA RUTILA Nutt. OPUNTIA SCHEDRI Web. OPUNTIA SENILIS Roezl. OPUNTIA SETISPINA BE. OPUNTIA SPHAHROCARPA E-B. OPUNTIA SPINULIFERA S. OPUNTIA STREPTACANTHA Lem. OPUNTIA STRIGILIS E. OPUNTIA SULPHURBEBA Gill. OPUNMTTA THNTITSPINA Engelm. OPUNTIA TOMENTOSA S&S. OPUNTIA "ORTISPINA EH-B. OPUNTIA TREWEASII Coulter. “Firect, diffusely branching: joints or- biculer to obovate, fl-shy, with terete base, 15-25 em long: pulvini not depressed, with long (5- em) dense dirty-yellow bris- tles: leaves on young shoots 5 mm long, screading (more then twice as long as these of basi aris and darker-red): flower and fruit not s-een.—FPype. growing in Mo. Bot Gard. 1/98, from ecrxlJection made by Trelease fn 1892, At Caliente, in the Te- Cacti.—Orcutt. 62 hachapi Mountains, California. Speci- mens examined: California (Trelease of 182). This species is near Q. basilaris, but differs in its rounder more fleshy jcints (terete below), pulvini not depress- ed (in O. basi.aris there is a depression for the pulvinus with a furrow on either side ‘n the genera surface), yellowish Lristles, andi csp: cially in its much Jarger leaves.’’—Coulter Contr 1a hb 3:434-435. OPUNTIA TRIACANTEHA P DC, OPUNTIA TUNA Mill. OPUNTIA URSINA Weber. Opuntia ursina is a name given by Albert Weber to a ‘curious and beauti- ful plant of the Mohave desert, adver- tised as the Grizzly Bear cactus. The joints are about 3 by 5 inches, densely covered with slender’ flexuous ivory white spines, fhe longest over 6 inches long, and completely hiding the plant. A cutting reminds one of the “Old Man” cactus of Mexico, but this be- longs among the prickly 'pears—form- ing low wide spreading masses of in- terlacing snow white spines. OPUNTIA VULGARIS Mill. OPUNTIA XANTHOSTEMMA KS. Subgenus Peireskioprntia. OPUNTIA BRANDFGHEI KS. OPUNTIA GOLZIANA KS. OPUNTIA PITITACHE Web. Subgenus Brasilopuntia. OPUNTIA BRASILIENSIS Haw. RHIPSALIS LUMBRICOIDES Lem. RHIPSALS MADAGASCARIENSIS Web. R. MESEMBRIANHENOIDETS Haw. RHIPSALIS MICRANTHA DC. RHIPSALIS MINUTIFLORA KS. RHIPSALIS MONACANTHA Gris. RHIPSALIS MYOSURUS KS. . RHIPSALIS NEVES-ARMONDII KS. RHIPSALIS PACHYPTERA Pf. Variety crassiohr S. RHIPSALIS PARADOXA S&S. RHIPSALIS PENDULIFLORA NEBr, RHIPSALIS PENTAPTHRA Pf. RHIPSALIS PLATYCARPA Lem. RHIPSALIS PULVINIGEHIRA Lindb. RHIPSALIS PUNICHO-DISCUS Lindb. RHIPSALIS RAMULOSA Pf. RHIPSALIS RHEIGNELLIT Lindb. RHIPSATTS RFOMBEA Pf, Variety CRISPATA KS. RHIPSALIS ACULHIATA Weber. RHIPSALIS ALATA KS. RHIPSALIS ANCFE'PS Weber. RHIPSALIS CAPILLIFORMIS Weber. RHIPSALIS CAVERNOSA Lindb. RHIPSALIS CLIAVATA Weber. RHIPSALIS COMORENSIS Weber. RHIPSALIS CONFERTA S. RHIPSALIS DISSIMILIS KS. RHIPSALIS ELLIPTICA JLindb. RHIPSALIS BLULIPTICA Lindb. RBTPSALIS HRYTHRROCARPA KS. RHIPSALIS FLOCCOSA. §8. RHIPSALIS GIBBHRULA Weber. RHIPSALTIS GONACARPA Weber. RHTPSALIS GRANDIFLORA Haw.. RHIPSALIS HADROSOMA Lindb. 3 Cacti.—-Orcutt. RHIPSALIS RHIPSALIS RHIPSALIS RHIPSALIS RHIPSALIS RHIPSALIS HRIPSALIS RHIPSALIS RHIPSALIS RHIPSALIS RHIPSALIS HOULLETIANA Lem. LINDBERGIAN'A KS. LINEARIS KS. SAGLIONIS Lem. SANSTBA'RICA Weber. SQUAMULOSA KS. SUARHZIANA Weber. THTRAGONA Weber. TRIGONA Pf. TUCMANENSIS. Weber. VIRGATA Weber. RHIPSALIS WARMINGIANA KS. RHIPSALIS VILLIGHRA Orcutt. Hariota villigera KS Fl Br 266; mon 613. RHIPSALIS CEREFORMIS Foerst. Pfeiffera cereformis S HD 40 (1884); ed 2, Gea valor 2 nung: Pfeiffera ianthothele Weber Dict 944. KS mon 610. CHREUS EXERENS Linke. CEREUS HERMENTIANUS Monv. Pilocereus hermentianus Lem et Cons Ill Hort JIII t 469.—Lem cact 63.—Foers- ter handb cact ed 2, 266.—KS mon 186. CHRHUS HOPPENSTHIDTII Weber cat fersdorff, 1864.—Foerster handb cact ed 2. 667.—KS Mfk 4:80: mon 177. CEREUS HOULEHTTII Orcutt. CEREUS PECTEN-ABORIGINUM E. CHREUS PENTAEDROPHILORUS Lab. CEREUS LANUGINOSUSMill. CHREUS MONITZIANUS Otto. CHIREUS POLYOPHUS DC. CEREUS ROYEINIT Haworth. CHREUS ST'RICTUS DC: CHREUS RUSSELLIANUS Otto. MELOCACTUS CAHMSIUS Wendl. MELOCACTUS COMMUNIS L & O. MELCCACTUS DEPRESSUS Hook. MEILOCACTUS GONTACANTSRUS Lem. MELOCACTUS LHIMAIRETI Mia. - MELOCACTUS MEOVACANTHUS L&O. MELOCACTUS MICROCEPHALUS Miq. MELOCAICTUS MIOUBLIT Lehm. MELOCACTUS OBTUSIPETALUS Lem. MELCCACTUS PYRAM'DAZTTS S. MELOCACTUS VIOLACEUS Pf. MELOCACTUS ALBISPINUS Salm. CHREUS CELSIANUS Orcutt. re ee celsianus Lem Rev Hort 1862, 428. CEREUS CHRYS4ACANTHUS Orcutt. Pilocereus chrysecanthus Weber ex KS mon 178. CEREUSCOMETES Schetdw. CEREUS DAUTWITZII Orcutt. Pilocereus dautwitzii Hge Gard Chron 1873. ares ILO Te Rose, Conte WS) Nay eb: 5) 2587t 6255 “This seems to be the ‘hikora rosapara’ of which Lumhaltz writes: ‘Rosapara is a white and spiny hikora. * Ey cot LE must be touched with clean hands and only by people who are well baptized, for re is a good Christian, say the Christian Tarahumaris, and keeps a sharp eye upon the people arourd him’.”’ ____ The contents and paging of the West American Scientist, volume 13. of Calif- ornia Art & Nature volume 2, and of the Review of the ~actacez volume 3, are I- dentical (issued in order named). ee EXCHANGES. Srief notices scribers, BRUNETTY, B.: Noe. 353 Strand, London, England. 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