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Cactus speciosissimus. Crimson-flowered 

 Torch-Thistle. 



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C&m «wrf Order. 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. 1-phyllus, superus, imbricatus. Cor. multiplex. 

 Bacca 1-loculariSj polysperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Sect. III. Cerei, stantes per se. 



Cactus speciosissimus ; caule erecto 3 — 4-gono : ang 1 1 1 is 

 dentatis, flore campanulato patente, genitalibus decli- 

 natis, stigmatibus decern geminatis. Desfontaines in 

 Mem du Mus. d'hist. nat. 3. p. 190. t. 9. Bot. Reg. 

 486. 



Cactus speciosus ; erectus, leviter quadrangularis, angiitis 

 dentatis. Willd. Enum. suppl. p. 31. 



The late Professor Willdenow, in a supplement to his 

 Enumeration of the plants of the Berlin garden, baa divided 

 the genus Cactus into eight sections, viz. Echinocacti, 

 Hedgehog or Mammilary Thistles. 2. Melocacti, Melon 

 Thistles. 3. Cerei, Torch Thistles. 4. Cerei repentes, 

 Creeping Cereuses. 5. Rhipsalides, Pendulous Cereuses. 

 6 Opunti*, Indian-Figs. 7. Phyllanthi, Spleen wort-like 

 Indian-Figs. 8. PereskijE, Barbadoes-Gooseberry. These 

 * N lions have by some botanists been separated into nearly 

 ;,s many genera ; Mr. Ha worth makes seven distinct gene- 

 l;i retaining the name of ('actus for the second of the above 

 tortious only, and uniting the third and fourth under that 



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