°e ns eee eg 
# — iii eau. This enormous cactus attained generally a height of14_— - 
to 2 feet; specimens 3 feet high were rare, but one specimen was fou 
BE measured 4 feet i in mais and near 7 feet in circumference; its top 
was covered with bu Ms > flowers, and fruits, in all stages of development. 
Tn size it ranges nex! e Hichinocactys us ingens, Zuces, specimens of which 
5 to 6 feet high were Allioned near Zimapan , i in Mexico. Another Mexi- 
can cactus, 4. platyceras, Lem., is said to grow fore the th 10 feet high, 
and. roporanieely. thick. 4. Wislizent is theréfore the third in size in 
this genus... 
the same neighborhood a brent Mayam silarsai:on 
as living specimens. It appears to be one of the ora lan, 
eines: By the afin T have a it, M. macrome- 
. 
h 
ithont C i Peat nue plat ah, the ¢ tachl 6 appeal Bi 
it is Poacaling to the scientific hotanist: “tage, ne sticks 
a soft and brittle wood, and a great deal of pith in the centre. : 
of already yellow leaves. In the following spring the sp 
foie t his pant were found by Dr. W. between Chihuahua and Par- 
ras, and to ‘egg I am indebted for Sees ate colecied near Sal- 
tile and Meee ‘The plant proved to be , two species of 
which had been found in Wescico ‘by Hix abeldte one of Theat the F. for- 
w0SA, i *hing shru ; 
- generically, and th he second constituted then the genus Bron 
Koi, flowers ae Aun a third Pougquiera, T am enabled to s0 ‘ole the die 
Y gee ellow flowers 2 to 2} inches in length, ae ee fit ae to if? 
teh long, topped with the remnants of the flower of th ent 
black, rough, obliquely oval, A considerable atBtimens in which 
the pots cory ledons are partly bur bur: 
a simplex, ovata, tuberculis” ladies 
0 ngatis c lindricis, ‘ncatvis, aulasties alate s juni nioribus albo- +", 
: sf aul cure! Eerie elongatis, omnibus porrectis; radiali- 
tralibus sub-3. robustioribus, ce 
iP bus, ftsciss 4 as maximis, ro ee Sepals & ovatis, acutis, 
” nee a ee fimbriatis; stylo ape stamina brevia patties. e 
omati 
near Dehana, in flo er in August. All my specimel as ‘sin- -* 
2 to 2 inches hizh; taeeres » in 8 rows, 12 to 15 lines 
ae: t first tomentose tose down to the tor sue Re 
