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lAB. ^0^0. 
ECHINOCACTUS 
CINNABARINUS. 
Oinnahar-Jlowered Echinocactm. 
Nat. Orel. CACTACEiE.—ICOSANDKIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. {Vide mipra, Tab. 4124.) 
Echinocactus cinnedarinm i atro-viridis globoso-depressus centro umbili- 
catus, tuberculis spiraliter dispositis basi tetragonis dorso verticaliter pro- 
fun.de cariuatis, areolis parvis tomentosis ad ^ummum apicem tuberculi 
sitis, aculeis rigidis mediocribus gracili-subulatis exterioribus radiatis subuni- 
formibus, central! erecta dimidio longiore, floribus solitariis sparsis, calycis 
viridis tubo lanato sepalis inferioribus minutis acutis superioribus spathu- 
latis, petalis numerosis ciniiabarinis. 
A neat species in regard to the form and arrangement of its 
tubercles, and very striking when in flower, from the numerous 
rich cinnabar-coloured petals, which spread to a diameter of 
three inches. The species is among the many rare ones from 
Bolivia, purchased for the Royal Gardens from Mr. Bridges. It 
flowers in a cool greenhouse in July. 
Bescr. Our specimens grow solitary and are globose, but 
depressed and umbilicated in the centre, six to seven inches in 
diameter and three or four inches in height. The surface is 
formed of copious dark green mamilla or tubercles, closely packed 
and aiTanged in spiral oblique lines; they are four-sided at their 
base, and dilated at the back into a deep, vertical, rather 
short keel, on the top of which the areola is situated; this areola 
is small, woolly, and bears a cluster of about'twelve, pale brown, 
narrow, subulate or acicular, but rather strong aculei : those of 
the circumference are nearly equal in length, and form a circle, 
i-f of an inch long: the central one is longer and stronger 
than the rest, all slightly curved. Flowers scattered, solitary, 
large in proportion to the size of the plants. Calyx green ; the 
tube short, woolly, folioles, or sepals, of the lower portion, 
small, short, acute, the superior ones large, spathulate, and 
resembling the petals except in colour, and seeming gradually 
to pass into petals. Fetals numerous, spathulate, obtuse, 
OCTOBER 1st, 1847. ^ 
