Hiftoria 'Plantar urn Succulent arum. D e c. If. 



Long-fingk-T horn* d*Eu- 



PHOKBIUM. 



HIS Curious Plant is a 



Native of Africa, where 



it flourifies in Rocky Ground. 

 It is yet fo little known in Eu- 

 rope, that I have only found it 

 growing in the Leyden Gardens, 

 where there is but one Plant of 

 it of the Size and Figure 

 that reprefented in the Plate: 

 It grows after the Manner 

 a Cereus, but is Jb full 



Euphorbjum Capenfe, fpinis hngts 



iplicibtts. 



Lania hac quam afpicis Curio- 



Mima Africano cxlo eft ori- 



faxofis 



unda 



in 



rupibus 



locifqj 



EiA orefcens. In Europa hadtenus adeo 

 eft hofpes Sc incognitus ut fi excipi- 

 am hortum Lugduno-Batavum (ubi 

 plantam unara tantum, figuram hanc 

 magnitudine referentem inveni) nul- 



libi locorum cam mihi obviam veniiTe 



memiiii. Crefciteodem more ac Cereus 

 fed fucco lacteo ita abundans ut ex 

 • Milky Juice, that it ijfues out | minima iucifione humor ifte diffiuat 

 at the lea ft Wound. The Spines abundanter. Ejus fpinas fufci funt 

 are of a reddifh Brown Colour \ colons, (ingulatim ad nodos cujufque 

 fet on fingly at every Joint on lateris pofitas, ex quarum medio ad 



each Rib. Among which, to- fummitates plantar erumpunt fbres in 







wards the Top of the Plant, 

 come forth the Flowers of the 

 fame Colour in May. This may 

 be propagated by Cuttings , like 

 others of the fame Tribe, and 

 loves a warm dry Air. 



menfe Maii ejufdem plane colons. 

 Propagatur quemadmodum <Sc alijs 

 hujus generis plants, amatq^ asrem 

 calidum atque Aridum. 



Ficoides 



