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TAB. 6533.
CEREUS FENDLERI.
Native of New Mexico.
Nat. Ord. CáCTEA.•Tribe ECHINOCACTE-E.
Genus CEREUS, Haworth ; {Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL vol. i. p. 849.)
CEEETJS (Echinocereus) Fendleri; simplex v. parce e basi ramosus, ovoideus v.
subcylindraceus, costis 9-12 tuberculato-interruptis, areolis orbiculatis junioribus
tomentosis, aculéis basi bulbosis, radialibus 7-10 rectis curvisve, inferioribus
robustioribus, intimo 4-gono albido, sequentibus 2 obscuris ceteris albis v. fusco-
variegatis, superioribus tenuioribus pallidis, summo elongate robusto incurvo
v. deficiente, acúleo centrali valde bulboso teretiusculo elongato rarissime 0,
floribus magnis purpureis subverticalibus, ovarii tubique pulvillis 25-35
aculeolos 3-12 albos ssepe adustos gerentibus, sepalis interioribus 12-15 lineari-
lanceolatis v. spathulatis acutis, petalis 10-24 lineari-oblongis v. ovato-
spathulatis, stigmatibus 12-16 erectis viridibus stamina numerosissima vix
Buperantibus, bacca ovoideo-globosa pulvillis aculeolatis stipata, seminibus
oblique obovatis scrobiculatis, embryone paulo curvo.
C. Fendleri, Engelm. Cactácea of Emory's U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey,
34, tab. 62, 53.
This fine Cereus is a native of the great Cactus region of
the United States, where, according to its author, Dr.
Engelmann, it inhabits rocks in alluvial river-bottoms
from Santa Fé to the Canon of the Rio Grande below El
Paso, and from fifty miles east of the Upper Peros west-
ward to Zuni, and the Aztec mountains and the Copper
mines. It is admirably described and figured along with
twenty-eight other Cácteas from the same region in the
work of Dr. Engelmann quoted above, whose characters I
have nearly verbatim reproduced, finding that though
drawn up (presumably) for dried specimens, they perfectly
accord with those of the cultivated one here figured.
Our specimens were presented to the Royal Gardens along
with a very choice set of other Cácteas from the same regions
by Edmund Giles Loder, Esq., of Howe, Floore, a gentle-
man who possesses a rich collection of rare succulent and
other plants. It flowered soon after it was received in June
of this year.
PECEMBEB 1ST, 1880.