about the same time as the C. grandiflorus (Tab. 3381) 
is strongly scented, and that the plant is more hardy than 
that species, but less so than the Ecurnocacti. 
Descr. Stem long, creeping unless supported, branched, 
jointed ; the joints long, cylindrical, an inch or an inch and 
a half in diameter, and marked with from eleven to twelve 
angles, on which are numerous fascicled, spinous sete, in- 
termixed with short tufts of a woolly substance. The 
flower is large, handsome, fragrant, terminating a joint of 
which it seems to be a continuation, there being no well- 
defined mark between the termination of the one and the 
commencement of the other. Tube three to four inches 
Jong, clothed with several linear, green, strongly ciliated 
scales. Petals numerous, linear, acute, spreading, of a pale 
whitish flesh colour within, reddish or brick colour without. 
Stamens much protruded, very numerous, forming a deep 
cup: filaments white: anthers yellow. Stigma of four to 
five rays, white. 
