. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . atatas, or not, though from analogy wesuspect it to be so. Branches, petioles, peduncles, and calyx roughly furredwith a bristly spreading purple pubescence, each hair ofwhich stands on a small glandular base or tubercle; branchesand peduncles round: yeduncles upright longer than the pe-tioles, robust, from two- to eight- flowered in the presentplant, generally trichotomously dinded; pedicles continuouswith the cah^x and subclavately thickened. Calyx oblong;leajlets oblong, nearly equal, rather pointed. Corolla purphshred: tube cylin
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . atatas, or not, though from analogy wesuspect it to be so. Branches, petioles, peduncles, and calyx roughly furredwith a bristly spreading purple pubescence, each hair ofwhich stands on a small glandular base or tubercle; branchesand peduncles round: yeduncles upright longer than the pe-tioles, robust, from two- to eight- flowered in the presentplant, generally trichotomously dinded; pedicles continuouswith the cah^x and subclavately thickened. Calyx oblong;leajlets oblong, nearly equal, rather pointed. Corolla purphshred: tube cylindiical, not ventricose, many times longerthan the cal\Tc: limb about two inches and a half over;segments shallow, notched in the middle of the intervalsbetween the plaits; plaits shortly pointed. Leaves about3 or 4 inches long, naked, cordately 3-lobed, lobes dentatelysinuated at the outer edge, angularly tapered: petiole seve-ral times shorter than the nerved blade. Flowers in August. We have not been informed of theheight the plant attained at 336 CACTUS Torch-thistle, ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat,ord, Cacti. Jussieu gen, 310, Div. II, Petala et Stamina inde^finita. CACTUS, Suprh vol, 137. Div, Cerei erecti, stantes per se,C. repandus, erectus, longus, octangularis: angulis compressis undatis: spinis lana longioribus. Lin. sp. pi, ed, 2. 1. repandus. Willd. sp, pi. 2. 940. Hort. Keiv. 2. \o\. ed. 2. 3. erectus cylindricus sulcatus tenuior summitate attenuatus, aculeis confertis. Browne Jam. gracilis. Alill. diet. 8. n. 8; (rectiiis quam Cereus repandus ejusdem loci n. 5. in Hort. Ketv. altissimus gracilior, fructu extus luteo, intus niveo seminibus nigris pleno. Sloanejam. 2. 158. Trexv , 14. Native of Jamaica and other parts of the West Indies,where it grows in the woods, to the height of fifteen ortwenty feet. Sloane tells us that the fruit ripens in October^and is eaten. By some t
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