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Cactus phyllanthoides. Rose^flowered 

 Indian-Fig. 



Class and Order* 



IcOSANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



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

 Bacca 1-locuiaris, polysperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Cactus phyllanthoides; caulibus compressis foliaceis margins 

 serrato-repandis, petalis interioribus tubo longioribus. 

 De Cand. Hoft. Monsp.p. 84. n. 41. 



Cactus spetiosus ; caulibus articulatis, compressis, foliaceis, 

 serrato-repandis ; floribus magnis tubo inermi, squamu- 

 loso. Bonpl. Plantes Nav. et Malm. p. 8. t. 3. Bot. 

 Reg. 304. 



Phyllanthos americana sinuosis foliis longis crassis et car- 

 nosis, Opuntia3 in modum florigera. Pluk. Aim. p. 295. 

 Phyt.t. 247. /. 5. Synonymon Cacto Phyllantho ohm 

 relatum, sed, ob tubi brevitatern, hue potius pertinens. 



This very beautiful plant is a native of South America, 

 and was discovered by the celebrated travellers Humboldt 

 and Bontland in April 1801, near the small village of Tur- 

 baco, a few leagues south of Carthagena, at an elevation of 

 about 390 yards above the sea shore, growing upon the trunks 

 of old trees. 



It first flowered in Europe in May 1811, and at the same 

 time, both in the garden of Malmaison, then belonging to 

 the late Empress Josephine, and in the Botanic garden at 

 Montpelier. In the latter place it was described and named 

 by the Professor of Botany, and subsequently the one which 

 flowered at Paris, was described and figured by M. Bonpland 



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