[Plate 34.] 
THE ANGLEHEAPJNG LEAF-CACTU& 
(PHYLLOCACTUS ANGI LIGER.) 
A Fine Greenhouse Shrub, with White Flowers, from the West of Mexico, belonging to the 
Order of Indian Figs. 
Specific Character. 
THE ANGLEBEARING CACTUS.— Branches leafy, stiff, 
flat, thick, pinnatifid, the lobes being nearly right-angled 
triangles. Flowers brown without, white within. Sepals 
longer than the petals. Stigmas 9-10. 
PHYLLOCACTUS ANGULIGER; ramis foliaceis rigidh 
planis crassis pinnatifidis, lobis fere rectangulari-triangu- 
laribus, floribus extus fuscis intus candidis, sepalis quam 
petala longioribus, stigmatibus 9-10. 
Phyllocactus anguliger, " Lemaire, Jardinjkuriste, 1,6;" according to the Gardeners' Magazine of Botany. 
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affinity 
from the Cactus Fhjllanthis of Linnaeus. Of the three, the last is the least showy, but nil must 
of the white-flowered species of this great order. The present opens 
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ipals 
on that very account, the petals, which are much sharper pointed than in 
C. crenatus, are, perhaps, more conspicuously fair. 
In Hartweg*s meagre account of his Journey to California, this plant 
occurring near Matanejo, a village in the west of Mexico, at no great distance 
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The vegetation," 
a ren- 
in the evening, affords little interest at this season. The copsewood covering the sides of the ravines 
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