( 3647 ) 
MAMMILLARIA FLORIBUNDA. Copious- 
FLOWERING MAMMILLARIA. 
KEK KEE KEKE EEEE EKER KEKE 
Class and Order. 
Icosanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calycis tubus ovario adherens, lobi 5—6 colorati fructum 
juniorem coronantes. Petala 5—25 a calyce vix distincta, 
eo longiora et cum sepalis in tubum conereta. Stamina 
filiformia pluriserialia. Stylus filiformis. Stigma 3—7- 
fidum radiatum. Bacca levis oblonga. Semina nidulantia. 
Cotyledones minute, acuminate.—Suffrutices carnosi sub- 
rotundi aut cylindracei, lactescentes aut succo limpido repleti, 
aphylli, tuberculis subconicis mammeformibus spiraliter dis- 
positis, apice spinulas radiantes et tomentum demum deci- 
duum gerentibus obtectt. Flores inter basin mammillarum 
sessiles, sepius in zonam transversam dispositi. Bacca obo- 
vata edulis, calyce marcescente demum deciduo, coronata. 
Pfeiff. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Mammnitiaria floribunda; simplex subdeformis globoso- 
subcylindracea, mammillis grossis conico-hemispheri- 
cis obtusis, areolis villoso-tomentosis, aculeis 14—16 
validis strictis subequalibus viridi -fuscis, floribus 
copiosissimis, petalis valde inzqualibus interioribus 
erectis. 
This really fine Mammitiarra was imported by Mr. 
Hircuin from Chili, and passed with the rest of that gentle- 
man’s rich collection of Cacrez into the hands of Messrs. 
Mackie of the Norwich Nursery, who kindly sent the beau- 
tiful figure here represented. I do not find it any where 
described ; 
