central two or three shorter and stouter. Flowers numerous, . 
sessile. Perianth golden yellow, one inch in diameter, and 
about as long; tube funnel-shaped, clothed with lax imbri- 
cating oblong scales tipped with red (the outer segments) ; 
inner segments numerous, spreading, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
flat and overlapping. Stamens lining the whole perianth- 
tube, the innermost much the shortest, filaments strict 
slender, anthers minute, yellow. Style rather stout with 
seven to eight erect, thickly filiform stigmas.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Areole and spines; 2, apex of tubercle and spines; 8, vertical 
section of flower :— all magnified. 
