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ECHINOCACTUS TUBIFLORUS. T'UBE-FLOWERED 
SpPInE-CACTUS. 
Class and Order. 
IcosanpriA Monoeynta. 
_( Nat. Ord —Cacrex. ) 
Generic Character. 
~  Sepala numerosa imbricata basi ovarii adnata in tubum 
~~ ‘brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima 
_ petaliformia. Stamina numerosa. Stylus filiformis apice 
multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis subsquamata. Co- 
tyledones nulla ?—Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut 
globost melocactoidet costati aphylli costis tuberculis conflu- 
entibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum fasciculos gerenti- 
bus. Cephalium seu spadix nullus. Flores ¢ fasciculis 
aculeorum ad apices costarum orti, similes Jlortbus Cerei sed 
tubo vix ullo donati. D C. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Ecuinocactus tubiflorus ; subgloboso depresso umbilicato, 
costis profundis subundecim undulatis compressis, tu- 
berculis lanatis aculeatis aculeis 5—6 lineas longis fas- 
ciculatis strictis nigris, floris tubo 6—8 uncias longo 
superne dilatato fasciculatim villoso, petalis patentibus 
(albis acuminatis). 
Ecuinocactus tubiflorus. flort. Angl.-Pfeiff, Enum. Cact. 
241. ae 
S © Setetireengigs ~ bu Pond eee 
The drawing here figured was kindly communicated un- 
der the name now adopted, by Mr. Freperic Mackie, of the 
Norwich Nursery, in whose collection of Cactex (late Mr. 
Hircni’s) it has lately flowered. Its affinity with E. Eyri- 
esw will be at once perceived: but from that species it dif- _ 
fers remarkably in the fewer and much deeper angles Pt 
