. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . ed,convolutely sheathing below, longer than the flower-stem,inner ones narrower, more upright, sharply stem from a foot and a half to two feet high or more,round, very faintly and bluntly two-edged, glaucous, he two-valved, dry, acuminate, twice shorter than theumbel. Flowers 6-8, from 6 to 9 inches long, rose-colouredand white, sweet-scented: peduncles very short, nearly asthick as the germen. Tube of the corolla linear, obtusely3-cornered, sometimes curved, resembling a peduncle,smooth at the orifice: l
. The Botanical register consisting of coloured figures of . ed,convolutely sheathing below, longer than the flower-stem,inner ones narrower, more upright, sharply stem from a foot and a half to two feet high or more,round, very faintly and bluntly two-edged, glaucous, he two-valved, dry, acuminate, twice shorter than theumbel. Flowers 6-8, from 6 to 9 inches long, rose-colouredand white, sweet-scented: peduncles very short, nearly asthick as the germen. Tube of the corolla linear, obtusely3-cornered, sometimes curved, resembling a peduncle,smooth at the orifice: limb turbinately campanulate, slightlysemiringent, sixparted quite to the base, nearly twice shorterthan the tube, segments ov^Uy oblong, three outer ones thQbroadest, with a hooked point. Filaments crimson, inclined,about a third shorter than the limb: anthers balanced,when the pollen is evacuated curved like a crescent: pollensulphur-coloured. very slender, crimson: stigma de^ pressedly headed, slightly triangular, subpubescent, Caj)-*^i^le bulbispermous,. 304 CACTUS Indian-Fig. lOOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Cacti. Jussieu s^en. 310. Div. CT US. Suprh vol. 2. foL 137. Div, Phyllanthi. C. speciosus, caulibus articulatis, compressis, foliaceis, serrato-repandis; floribus magnis tubo inermi, squamuloso. Bonpland nav. et malmais. 8. t. S; fiion vero Willdenovii in suppl. enum. hart. beroL^ cujus planta e&t Cactus speciosissimus. Mem, du museum, 3. 190. t, 9.)Cactus speciosus. Desfont,tahl, 191. Frutescens. Caulis articidatus, rajnosus, Icet^ vireseens, suhnudus, carno-suSf marginibus crenato-excisus, ex cylindraceo scepeque subangidari cumcrassitudine pennce scriptorice in laminam foliaceam oblongam latitudine sesqui-biunciali longitudine pliLS rninus sesunciali extenuatus, nervo medio alios joaraUlelos utrinque emittente percursus, imo crenarum sitiu armatus Jasciculisspinularum minidarum lanugine albicante cinctus vix oculis nudis
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