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Echinocactus phyllacanthus, Mart. From globose to cylindrical, with depressed vertex, simple or proliferous, 2⅓- 3⅗ inches broad: ribs 40-55 (sometimes as few as 30), very much crowded and compressed, thin, acute, very wavy, continuous or somewhat interrupted: radial spines 5 (sometimes 6 or 7), straight and spreading, the 2 lowest ones white, rigid, ⅙-¼ inch long, half as long as the 2 darker, angled, larger laterals, the uppermost spine thin and broad, channeled above, faintly annulate, flexible, grayish pink, ⅗-1 inch long; central spines none: flowers small, dirty white. Mex.

Echinocactus phyllacanthus, Mart. From globose to cylindrical, with depressed vertex, simple or proliferous, 2⅓- 3⅗ in. broad: ribs 40-55 (sometimes as few as 30), very much crowded and compressed, thin, acute, very wavy, continuous or somewhat interrupted: radial spines 5 (sometimes 6 or 7), straight and spreading, the 2 lowest ones white, rigid, ⅙-¼ in. long, half as long as the 2 darker, angled, larger laterals, the uppermost spine thin and broad, channeled above, faintly annulate, flexible, grayish pink, ⅗-1 in. long; central spines none: fls. small, dirty white. Mex.

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