along with the base of the petals and calyx. Anthers 
oblong, yellow. _Germen large, obovate, fleshy, with scat- 
tered, distant, ciliated, fleshy scales. Style swollen and 
angular at the base, the rest columnar, scarcely reaching to 
the top of the stamens. Stigma of six, nearly erect, yellow 
segments or rays. 
A native probably of South America, and, we believe, 
an old inhabitant of our stoves, where it flowers in the 
month of July, more readily than most of the species of 
the genus. 
Professor De Canpoiie, who made it a variety of the old 
Cactus Opuntia, nevertheless considered that it ought, pro- 
bably, to rank as a species. With us, it is constant to all 
the marks described and figured by M. De Canpotte, 
except in having a considerable number of flowers crown- 
ing the stem; a circumstance perhaps attributable to the 
greater luxuriance of his plant. 
De Canpoxze observes that this specics and all its affi- 
nities possess a great degree of irritability in the stamens, 
if touched or shaken when the blossoms are in perfection. 
Fig. 1. Flower, with part of the Calyx and Corolla removed to shew the 
stamens and pistil. 2. Section of the germen.—Both magnified. 
