blossoms upon it, though equalling in size those of that fine 
flowering plant, yet very different in several particulars,—the 
form of the petals and sepals, for example, and especially in the 
nature of the calycine tube: in C. MacDonaldia (and also in C. 
grandifiorus) partially clothed with minute, scattered, distant, 
shaggy or villous scales; here the tube is quite concealed by 
large, coloured, quite glabrous scales, the smallest of them al- 
most an inch long, and then gradually enlarging upwards and 
passing into the sepals. It is equally fragrant with the two 
species now mentioned, and is, like them, a night-blowing one. 
Nothing is positively known of its native country; but it hap- 
pens that I have in my possession a drawing made in Antigua, 
undoubtedly of this species; so that it is probably a native of 
that island. 
Dzscr. Stems much elongated, branched, and pseudo-articu- 
late, rooting, thicker than one’s finger, dark-green, obtusely tri- 
angular, the angles toothed, teeth (or tubercles) small, distant 
about half an inch from each other, bearing an areolus in its 
axil; areoles pulvinate, bearing from one to three, very small, 
subulate, but rather thick, straight aculei. Flower arising from 
an angle of the stem, sessile, curved upwards, very large, twelve 
inches long, and nine inches across the cup-shaped perianth 
(for the flower has not the spreading sepals and petals of C. 
MacDonaldia). Calya-tube four to five inches long, curved, an 
inch and a half in diameter, clothed with large, oblong, rather 
obtuse, leafy scales, an inch and more long, the lower ones pale 
green ; upper and larger ones yellow, margined with red, and 
these gradually pass into the sepals of the calyx, which are linear- 
lanceolate, acute rather than acuminate, the larger ones six inches 
and more long, bright tawny-yellow, streaked or margined with 
red. Within this are the large, white, oblong, obtuse, numerous 
petals, about equal in length with the inner sepals, but twice 
or thrice as wide. Stamens exceedingly numerous and densely 
crowded, pale yellow. Style very thick, pale yellow, cylindrical., 
Rays of the stigma yellow, more than two inches across, nume- 
rous, downy, bifid. 
Fig. 1. Pulvinulus and spine :—magnified. 
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