sometimes sigmoidly flexuous. Floivers many, crowdec 

 at the top of the stem, golden- or orange-yellow, nearly 

 two inches in diameter. Calyx-tube about an inch long, 

 hairy and sparsely aculeate. Sepals and ]jetals very many, 

 in many series, linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Filaments 

 short, reddish, anthers yellow. Ovary scaly and woolly^ 

 stigmatic lobes about fifteen, pale yellow. Seeds very 

 numerous and very minute. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, spines of one areola ; 2 and 3, stamenB; 4, stigmas : — all enlarged. 



