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EcHINOCACTUS MAMMILLARIOIDES. MAMMIL- 
LARIA-LIKE E\CHINOCACTUS. 
SER KKK KKK KEKE KEE EEE 
Class and Order. 
IcosanpRIA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Cacrez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala numerosa imbricata, basi ovarii adnata, in tubum 
brevissimum concreta, exteriora involucriformia, intima 
petaliformia. Stamina numerosa. Stylus filiformis apice 
multifidus. Bacca sepalorum reliquiis subsquamata. Coty- 
ledones nulla ?—Frutices simplicissimi carnosi ovati aut 
globosi melocactoidet costati aphylli, costis tuberculis conflu- 
entibus quasi formatis, dorso aculeorum. jasciculos gerentibus. 
Cephalium seu spadix nullus. Flores e fasciculis aculeorum 
ad apices costarum orti, similes floribus Cerei sed tubo vix 
ullo donatit. D C. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Ecuinocacrus mammillarioides ; subrotundo-cylindraceus 
mammillosus, mammillis magnis conico-hemisphericis 
subangulatis in costas 14—16 subspirales irregulares 
dispositis, apicibus lanosis spinis sub-7 breviusculis 
gracilibus patentibus pallidis terminatis, floribus flavo- 
rubris. 
Introduced by Mr. Hrrcnin from Chili, and now in the 
rich collection of Cactea of Messrs. Mackre of the Laken- 
ham Nursery, near Norwich, who kindly communicated the 
drawing of the flowering specimen in the autumn of last 
year (1836). They justly observe, that the species appears 
in the structure of the stem to be intermediate between Mam- 
MILLARIA and Ecuinocacrus. It iscovered with mammille of 
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