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Flores in verticis concavitate lana densa vestita aggrcgati, pallide 

 sulfurei, 2" diametro metienles. Sepala numerosa, exteriora sub- 

 iilata, rigida, pungentia, pelalis duplo breviora. Petala numerosa, 

 lineari-lanceolata, rigida, crassa, dorso convexiuscula, intcerrima, 

 basi in tubum connata; tubus apicem versus sensim ampliatus, deor- 

 sum cylindricus, angustatus, stylo tantum pervius, uti tota corolla 

 persistcns et in fructu maturo lignosus, ligni duri albidi Strato fere 

 2"' crasso. Stamina plurima, in superiore tubi parte dense multi- 

 seriata, inclusa ; filamenta filiformia, glabra; antherae oblongae, antice 

 quadriloculares, flavae. Stylus cylindricus, crassus, sursum divisus 

 in Stigmata 10, cylindrica, obtusa. Bacca lagenaeformis, lana molli 

 sordide albida densissima e pilis tenuissimis articulatis facta tota 

 vestita, sursum sepalis s. bracteis persistentibus subspinescentibus 

 lana absconditis munita, sicca crustacea, apicem versus lignescens. 

 Semina numerosissima in pulpa totam baccam ad -l altitudiois re- 

 plente nidulantia, obovata, subinaequilatera, compressiuscula, vertice 

 rotundata, basi obtusa, hilo parum supra basin parvo orbiculari con- 

 cavo albido; testa crustacea, nitida, nigra, sub lente tenuissime reti- 

 culatim venosa. jllbumen nullum. Embryo reclus, cotyledonibus 

 vix conspicuis, radicula valde incrassata conica. 



3. E. reciirous Havo. 



E. globosus, glaucescenti-atrovirens, 10— 30 -costatus, costis per- 

 pendicularibus sursum soepe bifidis crassis acutis, sinubus primum 

 profundis acutis tandem fere planis et medio tantum canaliculatis 

 areolis magnis orbicularibus lana subfuscescente vestitis, ultra spina- 

 rum orbem productis et ibidem glandula (in novellis praesertim con- 

 spicua) globosa sordide flavescente munitis, spinis radiantibus plerum- 

 que 8 erecto-patentibus apice subarcuatis robustis parum compressis 

 tenuiter velutinis, 3 infimis et eummis sordide purpurascentibus, 2 !&• 



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