Mr. Hawox'th's Twelfth Decade of fieiu Succulent Plants. 115 



EcHiNOCACTUS, Link et Otto. De Cand. &c. — Cacti? 346. 



Nob. Synops. Siicc. 173-4- et Cacti 1. 2. 3. Nob. SuppL PI. 

 Slice. 73-4. 15. 



Suffrutices succulentissimi subrotundi obovales vel obiono'i ; 

 saspe simplices niulticostali; costis, crebre et horride re^-u- 

 lariter fasciculato-spinosis. Flores diurni rosacei, saepe 

 sessiles, parvi, tubo brevi seu nullo : vel majores, tubo de- 

 clarato, ut in Bot. Reg. t. 137. Csetera Cerei. 



Subgenus naturale, inter Melocactum et Cereum : absque spa- 

 dice, et (ut dicitur) dicotyledonatum. 



recurvus. E. (Miller's broad-spined) subrotundus 15-angula- 



6. ris, spinis latis recurvis creberrimis. 



Echinocact. recurvus DeCand. Prod. 3. 462. — Cac- 

 tus recurvus Mill. Diet. ed. 8. No. 3. — Nob. Syriojos. 

 Sttcc. 173. — Cactus nobilis Ij7in. Mant. PI. 243. — 

 Willd. Sp. PI. 2. 939. Spreng. Sj/st. Veg. 2. 494.— Non 

 Nob. 



Obs. Haec species, a Cacto latispino Nob. in Phil. 

 Mag. 1823, praecipue difFert forte numero angulorum : 

 et vix ab Echinocaclo cornigero DeCand. Rev. de 

 Cact. p. 36. jil- 7, nisi in majoris spinas situ. 



Obs. Linnaeus should not have wilfully and know- 

 ingly changed Miller's prior and faultless name of 

 recurvus for this plant : and to prevent the confusion it 

 created, I restored it in Synops. PL Slice, in 1812, 

 and gave the name of nobilis to the following plant, 

 because it was so called in the celebrated Royal Gar- 

 den of Kew, where it yet exists, but has not flowered. 



nobilis. E. (Dense-spined noble) erectus, oblongus, multi- 



7. costatus, spinis creberrimis validis rectissimis nigris 

 Iiorridc tectus. 



Cactus nobilis. Nob. Synop)s. PI. Siicc. 174, et sic 

 dictus in Regio Horto Kewensi : sed non Aliorum. 

 Cactus reductus Link Emim. 2. 21. Cereus reductus 

 DeCand. Prod. 3. 463. 



Obs. Suflfrutex fere tripedalis diametro subqua- 

 driunciali, (" ni male memini,") firmus. Spinarum fas- 

 ciculi, inter se intricatim et valde intertexti, radiis 

 sub-duodecim nigris mox atris in singulo fasciculo, 

 ajqualioribus, et magis erectis seu minus expansis quiim 

 in j)luriinis. Harum spinarum perpauca; fere unciales, 

 ct ca-'teris fere duplo longiores validioresque. In 

 juventute a Cacto gibboso Nub. in Sijnops. Succ. 173. 

 vix distinguendus, at in a>tate oblonga sub-tripedalis 

 seu plusquam cvadit; sed gibbcrum notabilem sub 

 Q 2 singulo 



