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Night blowing Cereus. A climbing plant; stems rooting, 5 or 6 angled: na- 
tive of the West Indies. Intd. by N. The flowere are very showy, and sweet 
scented. 
644. C. TRIANGULARIS. DC. prod. 3. p. 468. Bot. Mag. t. 1884. 
Strawberry-pear. Triangular Torch—thistle. 
A creeping plant, with triangular stems, sending forth roots and adhering 
to walls or any support near. Flowers in the rains: of a yellowish white 
colour, with yellow authers; large and showy, but very short lived; they 
blow during the night, and die away the following morning. —In gardens 
Bombay and the Deccan. 
645. C. Truncatus. Dc. prod. 3. p. 470. Bot. Mag. t. 2562. Bot. Reg. t. 
696. Epiphyllum truncatum. Don’s. syst. 3. p. 171. 
Asmall, but very beautiful plant; native of Brazil._—\ntd. by Mr. B. Noton 
from England in 1836. The flowers appear during the cold season. They 
are of a pretty red, or rose colour. 
~~ 311. OPUNTIA. Tourn. Icosandria Monogynia. 
From the town of Opus, where some species grow. Tourn. t. 122. 
546. O. DILLENI. w. & a. 1127. Cactus indicus. Rox. Flora. 2. p. 475. 
Bot. Reg. ¢. 255. Don’s. syst. 3. p. 173. 
The Prickly pear, or Nopal; commonly used as a hedge plant about Can- 
tonments in the Deccan: it forms an iinpenetrable fence, but excludes air and 
harbours venemous animals. Native of S. America. 
Cultivators have an objection to it, as it spreads so wide, and impoverishes 
land. (Dr. Gibson.) 
647. O. CocHINILLIFERA. DC. prod. 3. p. 473. Bot. Rep. ¢. 533. Bot. Mag. ¢. 
2741 and ¢. 2742. Don’s. syst. 3 p. 173. Dill. Elth. ¢. 297. f. 383. 
In gardens Bombay. Native of the West Indies, where it is used to feed 
the Cochineal insect. 
312. PERESKIA. Plum. Icosandria Monogynia. 
Named by Plumier, after Peiresk of Aix in Provence. 
648. P. AcuLeaTa. DC. prod. 3. p. 474. Don’s. syst.3.p. 175, 
Cactus Pereskii. Sprengel syst. 2. p. 498. Pluk. Alm. t. 215.7. 6. Dill. Hort, 
t. 227. f. 294. 
A scandent shrub, with smooth elliptic leaves, and thorns in their axils. 
Flowers white; appear in the rains. 
Dapooree. (Dr. Lush.) gardens, Bombay. It grows readily from cuttings, 
andseems well adapted for a hedge plant. 
ORDER 70, SAXIFRAGACEZ. vc. prod. 4. p. 1. 
THE SAXIFRAGE TRIBE, Lind. nat. syst. p. 49. 
313. NIMMONIA. Wight. Tetrandria Monogynia. 
Named by Dr. Wight, of the Madras Med. Est. after Mr. Nimmo, “ the 
acknowledged head of the Bombay corps botanique.” 
649. N. Froripunpa. Wight, in Madras Journal of Science. No. 15. p. 
31}. ¢. 20. 
Herbaceous, glabrous, ramous plant, with coriaceous, alternate, sessile 
leaves, and numerous small, red, heath-looking flowers.—Grows in patches, 
on the bare rocky ground at Mahableshwur; flowering in January and 
February. (Dr. Murray.) 
314. HYDRANGEA. L, Decandria Trigynia. 
