lanceolate, acute. Stamens about as long as the tube; 
filaments pale yellow ; antherS red. Style exserted, green, 
stigma ten to twelve partite—N. H. Brown. 
Fig. 1, a spine-cushion, enlarged. 
Notr.—Frederick Scheer was an independent botanist who for some time 
resided at Kew and particularly devoted himself to the study of Cactacee. He 
published in 1840 an excellent account of Kew under the title of “ Kew and 
its Gardens.” This and other actions were largely effective in averting the 
breaking up of the collections which had been contemplated, and in their being 
taken over by the nation from the Crown. (See Kew Bulletin, 1891, pp. 
— ir an obituary notice in the Journal of Botany, 1869, p. 268).— 
