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CACTUS gibbosus. 
Mr. Vere's Melon- Thistle. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Cacti. Jussieu gen. 310. 
Div. II. Petala et stamina indefinita. 
CACTUS. Cal. urceolatus aut longior tubulosus, squamis nume- 
rosis appendiciformibus sap? imbricatis tectus, suprà germen deciduus, 
Petala numerosa multiplici serie, summo calyct inserta, basi subcoalita, 
interiora majora. Stam. ibidém inserta paritér infra coalita, antheris ob- 
longis. Stylus longus; stig. multifidum. Bacca infera, umbilicata 
sguamularum vestigiis exasperata, l-loc., ad parietes seminifera; poly- 
sperma seminibus in pulpâ nidulantibus. Arbores aut frutices, pingues, 
formá varii sapiús aphylli et articulati, plerìmgue obducti spinis fasci- 
culatis et pilis in singulo fasciculo intermiztis. Opuntiæ stamina titilla- 
tione irritabilia. Jussieu gen. 311. 
Div. Echinomelocacti, subrotundi. 
C. gibbosus, oblongiusculus, 16-angularis; spinarum fasciculis in un& 
serie jugis costarum, alternantibus cum tuberculis totidem nudis 
elongato-mammosis et compressiusculis, 
Cactus gibbosus. Haworth pl. suce, 173. 3 uncias, diamal 
Turbinato-cylindricus, sordid2 virens, parùm excedens 8 uncias, diametro 
2 com dimidio! castato-an, us; coste longitudinales 2 fuberculis obesis 
ressis coronatis areold pland fusco-tomentosd spinis sub-T validissimis 
acicularibus serie simplici fasciculate divergentibus (junioribus albo et fusco 
variis) armatá, et ex alis alternis macrioribus. Compresso-mammillaribus, 
glabris inermibus at lurimiim prominentioribus; in summo vertice 
Jari er, depressus, que pour armati orbalus et mammillaribus diminutis ` 
tessellatus. Flores (hic 2f axillares in fasciculis spinarum costas terminan- 
tium, solitarii, yit triunciales, inferis calycini virentes, superis petalini 
sordescentes et pallidescentes, intús candicantes, inadori. a L ylndricus 
squamis. obtusis appressis albidis dissité sparsis. consitus, reci 
prim penná mapre crassior uncialis persistens, ultrà deciduus. — Petala 
numerosa ` obcuneato-ligulata mucronato-obtusa, basi coalescentia, interiora 
longiora, vir latiora. 'Spinse recentiüs ena proféctó Erinacei similes; 
seniores deperdunt coloris variegationem. 
A species not yet received into any general enumeration 
of vegetables, nor till now known to botanists by the in- 
florescence. It has been cultivated in the hothouse of 
Mr. Vere, at Kensington Gore, from before 1808, and 
flowered in June last, for the first time. This gentleman's 
rdener informs us, that it was raised from seed received 
Tom Jamaica by Messrs, Lee and Kennedy, of the Ham- 
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