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CrREUS LATIFRONS. BROAD-STEMMED 
CEREUS. 
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Class and Order. 
Icosanpr1A Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Cactez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala numerosissima imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in 
tubum elongatum concreta, exteriora breviora calycinalia, 
media longiora colorata, intima petaliformia. Stamina 
numerosissima cum tubo concreta. Stylus filiformis, apice 
multifidus. Bacca areolata, sepalorum reliquiis squamata 
aut tuberculosa. Cotyledones acuminate.—Frutices car- 
nosi, subglobosi vel elongati, stricti, articulati vel repentes, 
_axi ligneo interne medullifero donati, angulis verticalibus, 
spmarum fasciculos gerentibus vel inermibus, trregulariter 
sulcatt. Anguli seu ale nunc plurime, nunc paucissime, 
rarius due tantum et tune rami compresso-alati inermes. 
Flores ampli e spinarum fasciculis lateralibus trunet aut 
ramorum vetustiorum, aut crenis angulorum orti. Fructus 
oviformes, pleru 
Pheiffer. plerumque anno sequente maturescentes, edules. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Cereus latifrons 3 Yamis maximis planis foliaceis viridibus 
apice obtusis, marginibus repando-dentatis, deutibus 
truncatis. Pfeiff. 
CrErEus latifrons. ** Succ. in Act. Acad. Bavar. 1837. 2. p. 
735. Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. p. 125. Prfeiff. et Otto, 
Cactées, tab. 13. f. 2. 
Cereus oxypetalus. De Cand. Révue, tab. 14. 
Errpnyiium latifrons. Zuce. in Cat. Hort. Monae. 1836. 
From the collection of the Messrs. Mackie of Norwich, 
by whom I am favoured with the drawing, from which the 
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