green and sliming, crowned with a snow-white tuft of hairs, 

 from which the spines spring. Spines about twenty, 

 acicular, half an inch long, silvery and glittering, 

 stellately spreading, of unequal lengths, the inner erect, 

 hardly longer than the outer. Flowers sessile, one to one 

 and a half inches in diameter; ochreous yellow and red; 

 perianth broadly campanulate ; tube short, red, covered 

 with tufts of suberect spines, segments about forty, outer 

 series about ten, lanceolate, acute, spreading and recurved, 

 bright red, inner gradually smaller, orange or ochreous 

 yellow, with acute red tips. Stamens included, yellow. 

 Style exserted, stout; stigmas six, lanceolate, erect.— 

 J. D. H. 



Fijf. 1, Tuft of spines; 2, front, ami 3, side view of flower ; 4, spines of tube of 

 perianth ; 5 and b, stamens; 7, sti-mas :— all enlarged. 



