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ECHINOCACTUS CONCINNUS. NEAT 

 EcHINOCACTLS. 



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 Class and Order. 



ICOSANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord.— Cacte*;. ) 



Generic Character. 



Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovario adnata, in tubum 

 brevissimum concreta, exteriora i n vol ucri form ia, intima 

 petaliformia. Stamina numerosa, calyci affixa, insequalia, 

 intima brevissima filiformia, antheris oblongis. Stylus 

 cylindricus, subfistulosus, apice multifidus. Bacca sepalo- 

 rum reliquis subsquamata, rarissime laevis. Cotyledones 

 parvulae. — Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut globosi, 

 melocactoidei aut mammillariformes, aphylli, costati aut 

 tuberculati } costis tuberculis confluentibus quasi formatis, 

 dor so aculeorum fasciculos gerentibus. Cephalium seu 

 spadix nullus. Flores e fasciculos aculeorum ad apicem 

 costarum orti. Pfeiff. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Echinocactus concinnus ; depresso-globosus glaucescens 

 sub-10-costatus, costis obtusis sinuato-crenatis, areolis 

 remotiusculis lanatis, spinis setaceis 8 — 10 stellatim 

 patentibus subsetaceis breviusculis unico longiore 

 validiore paululum decurvis. 



Echinocactus concinnus. Hortul. 



Echinocactus orthocanthus. " Link et Otto."— Pf riff. 

 Enum. Cact. p.bS> 



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This, so far as I can find, has only a name in gardens 

 and in catalogues. It does not appear in Pfeiffer's useful 

 u Enumeratio/' unless it be the E. orthocanthus above 

 quoted, with the short description of which it seems to 



accord, 



