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CACTUS CULTURE FOR AMATEURS. 



Leeanus. 



Stems not more than 1 foot high, and about 5 inches in 

 diameter, conical in outline, with about a dozen ridge-, clothed 

 with clusters of pale brown spines, the central one an inch long, the 

 others much shorter. The flowers are produced in June or July on 

 the top of the stem, four cr five together, and are brick-red in 

 colour, the tube 2 inches long, with yellowish, green- tipped scales 

 and clusters of hair-like bristles. Introducad in 1848 from Mexico, 

 it has been known to bear a little frost without inj ury. 



Pig. 16. Cereus multiplex. 



C. leptacantluis. 



One of the most beautiful and one of the easiest to cultivate. 

 In habit it is similar to C. BerlandicrL the short, creeping stems 

 being crowded, and flowering freely in May and June. The notched 

 petals are deep purple- lilac on the upper half, the lower part being 

 white, as also are the stamens ; anthers and stigma orange-coloured. 

 Mexico, 1860. Not much grown in English gardens, though common 

 in Continental collections 



