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the cyanotic skin over a subcutaneous abscess, that badly needs 
the knife, and the sparkle and colour of the whole perigoneal 
body reminds one very much of a yellow and red cherry. Over 
the perigoneal vault slightly depressed, curved more or less 
semicircular lines are running, evidencing the margins of the 
coalesced lobes. 
A bud, 18 cM. across (sex not noted): Nine small, black scales 
from the margin of the cupula. Eighteen fleshy bracteae, chiefly 
of brown colour; the most superficial ones quite black-brown, 
the medial ones white at the base, black brown in the middle 
girdle and light brown at the top; the most deeply situated 
ones almost quite white, only a little brown at the top. The 
innermost one of the bracts is placed opposite to the most 
superficial of the perigoneal lobes. The disc has 38 processus. 
Male bud, 24 cM. across. Five small, dry scales from the 
margin of the cupula. Twenty two bracteae. The disc carries 
45 well developed processus and a number of smaller ones, only 
represented by short projections. At their top they all have 
fine, stiff, pointed, spearlike hairs, reminiscent of the thorns of 
a cactus, individually placed or arranged in small groups. Such 
are also to be found scattered over the surface of the disc, 
especially near its centre. The hairs are rather swollen at their 
base but exceedingly fine at the point. The annulus coronalis 
disci carries on its peripheral margin great numbers of very 
small, dark, red coloured prominences, covered with hairs as 
_ those upon the upper surface of the disc. The under side of the 
annulus coronalis disci carries innumerable scattered, indivi- 
dually placed, softer hairlets upon minute prominences. There 
are 39 anthers, 6 mM. high and 7 mM. broad, with a closed 
valve on the top cutting them through one finds in their inte- 
rior a number of cavaties, filled with a sticky substance. On 
Squeezing an anther a puslike mass passes out through the 
topvalva. In front of the anthers, upon the superior part of the 
column we find the corresponding lodges, which are broad above 
and narrow below and divided from each other by septa of the 
reverse shape, sharp above, broad and flat below. Every lodge 
again possesses along its surface low but sharply defined septula, 
