Tab. 4184 

 ECHINOCACTUS Lebanus. 



Mr. Lees Echinocactus. 



Nat. Ord. Cacte.e. — Icosandria Monogynia. 

 Gen. Char. {Fide supra, Tab. 4124.) 



Echinocactus (§ Tuberculati) Leeanus ; depresso-globosus obscure subglau- 

 co-viridis tubercubs subkemisphsericis majusculis obtuse hexahedris niam- 

 miformibus confluentibus, in series m-egulares subverticales dispositis, areolis 

 ovalibus tomentosis, aculeis subgracilibus quorum subdecem patentibus 

 rectiusculis cum unico centrali porrecta vix majore, floribus majusculis pal- 

 lide flavescentibus. 



Raised by Messrs. Lee of the Hammersmith Nursery, from seeds 

 sent from the Argentine provinces by Mr. Tweedie of Buenos 

 Ayres, in 1840. The specimen here figured blossomed in May, in 

 the Cactus-house of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. 1 do 

 not meet with its description in any book to which I have access, 

 and therefore venture, though not Avithout hesitation, to publish 

 it as new. It may rank near our E. muliiflorus (supra, Tab. 4181), 

 but is in reality very different. 



Descr. A small species, globose, but depressed at the top. 

 Tubercles which compose the surface rather large, hemispherical, 

 but having about six very obtuse angles, of a rather glaucous green 

 colour, not arranged in distinct lines or series so as to form ridges 

 with their corresponding furrows, but placed with a good deal of 

 irregularity, becoming, below especially, confluent and obsolete, at 

 the top small and very numerous. Areola oval, downy, or rather 

 woolly, producing about eleven rather slender spines, of which 

 one, the central one, stands forward and is quite straight ; the other 

 ten are slightly recurved, and spread horizontally (especially on 

 the older tubercles), most of these are nearly equal in size and 

 about half an inch long. Flowers from the summit or depressed 

 portion above, one or two moderately large. Tube short, covered 



SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1845. 



