* 
Icosandria .Monog. | Cereus. 185 
-for the calyx of the flower, when open, is 
near a footin diameter; the inside of which, 
being of a splendid yellow colour, appears 
like the rays of a bright star, the outside of a 
dark brown ; and the petals of the flowers be- 
ing of a pure white, adds to the lustre; and 
thevast number of recurved stamina surround- 
ing the style inthe center of the flower, make 
a fine — ; and add to this the fize 
a considerable distanee : there is scarce an 
plant which deserves a place in the Hothouse 
so much as this, especially as it is to be trained 
against the wall, whereit will not take up 
Toom. The usual season of its flowering is in 
July; and when the plants are large, thev will 
roduce a great number of flowers, so that 
there will be a succession of them for several 
nights, and many of them will open the same 
night. l have frequently had. six, eight, or 
ten flowers open at the same time üpon one 
plant, which bave made a most magnificent 
'3pearance by candle light, but none of them 
have been succeeded. by any appearance of 
froit,"— Mill. dit.l.c. — $5 Iu 
C. (Creeping-Cereus) repens decemangularis. flagel/i- 
- ann. sp. pl. A. p. 608.—JVilld. sp. pl. 2. formis. 
p. 949.— Hort. kew. ed. 2. v.3. p.118. DU. —18. 
magazx. Y.—Plant. grass. cum icone.—Mil/. 
dict. ed 8. Cereus 
eus 19. — s 
'AT in America calidiore, atque in Arabia 
à. B * 2x i UPCEES $e 5 G. Hec $i 
E in . Jul. z en ' as : 
ves that, «€ this sort pro- 
'of flowers than any of 
