in whose catalogue-it appears as ‘ (. Paxtonianus, Monv., 
Syn. C. Cavendishit, Mony.” It flowered for the first time 
in the Cactus House in September, 1898. 
Descr.—Stem of the Kew specimen four feet high, and 
about an inch in diameter, erect, flexuous, branching to- 
wards the top, five to six angled, very lurid green, angles 
compressed, sinuate, studded with spine-bearing pulvilli at 
intervals of about a quarter of an inch, the larger spines 
of which cross one another. Pulvilli glabrous, bearing 
about twelve radiating, smooth, straight, dark brown 
spines of unequal length, two of which are more than 
twice as long as the others, the longest being about a 
quarter of an inch long. Flowers three to four inches in 
diameter, white. Calyw-tube two and a half inches long by 
about half an inch in diameter, cylindric, funnel-shaped 
below the sepals, quite smooth, unarmed, pale bright — 
green, bearing few distant minute brown tooth-like scales, 
which become much longer upwards passing into the outer 
sepals. Perianth-segments very many, in several series; 
_linear-lanceolate, sub-acute, spreading and incurved; 
outer segments (sepals) dorsally green, edged, and clouded 
towards the tip, and sometimes on the inner surface # 
with light brown, inner segments (petals) quite white. 
Stamens very numerous, many-seriate, filaments slender; 
shortly exserted at the mouth of the perianth, anthers 
- Ininute, yellow. Style stout, much longer than the stamens, 
bearing a dozen linear obtuse stout, radiating stigmas, 
about half an inch long.—J. D. H. “bg 
Fig. 1, Pulvill ith spines; 2 ; ; :—Both — 
etoeak us with spines; 2, summit of style and stigmas 
