Gardens in May. It has narrower leaves and much larger 
flowers than the native specimens and that figured in the 
‘ Refugium,’ which has also a greenish corolla, ours being pure 
white. , 
Descr. A rigid glabrous shrub, with stout cylindric green 
branches. eaves one anda half to two and a half inches 
long, very variable in width, from rounded ovate to oblong 
ovate, apiculate, very coriaceous, with a stout midrib beneath 
and very obscure nerves, margin slightly recurved ; petiole 
very short. Spines very stout two or more inches long, and 
forked, more slender in the cultivated plant. Flowers single 
or in pairs at the ends of the branches, very shortly peduncled; 
peduncles with a few subulate bracts. Calyzx-tube short, 
ovoid ; segments twice as long as the tube, narrow, lanceo- 
late, broader in the native specimen. Corolla-tube white, much 
longer than the calyx-segments, half an inch long, cylindric, 
pubescent within; limb two to three inches in diameter} 
segments oblong, rounded at the tip, twisted and overlapping 
to the left in bud. Stamens half way down the corolla tube, 
anthers oblong, sessile. Ovary ovoid; style short; stigma 
clavate. Berry half an inch or more long, ovoid, fleshy. 
Seeds numerous, imbricated, orbicular.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Corolla tube laid open, showing the stamens and pistil :—enlarged. 
