yee es ie odes a” ~ A. 
CAC'TUS SPECIO’SUS; 
VARIETY? LATERITIUS. 
SHOWY BRICK-RED CACTUS. 
EXOGENA, OR DICOTYLEDONE&. 
Natural division 
to which ig 
this Plant belongs 
NATURAL ORDER, CACTACEA, 
Artificial divisions A, 
to which i Gaowebewna: 
this Plant belongs OF LINNEUS. 
No. 12. 
GENUS. Cacrus. Sus-cenus, Cereus. SEpara numerosissima imbricata 
CALYCIFLOR2, 
12) 
DECANDOLLE, 
ECIES. Cactus aie eeaibe var. lateritius. Fortis tubo limbo petalo- 
rum breviore, ramis dipteris trigonisque. 
CHARACTER OF THE si sie. Cereus. SEPALs very numerous 
imbricate, cohering by their base with the ovary, and forming a long 
tube, the outermost shorter and resembling calycinal segments, the in- 
termediate longer and coloured, the innermost petaloid. STAMENs 
very numerous concrete with the tube of the flower. Styxe filiform 
many-cleft at the apex. Berry invested with the remains of the se- 
pals in the form of blotches, tubercles, or scales. No cotyledons? (in 
the present case they are distinct and incumbent). Survss with long 
fleshy branches, having an internal woody axis containing pith, and 
regularly furrowed in vertical ridges bearing bundles of spines. RipGEs 
OR WINGS either very numerous or very few, less frequently only two, 
and then the branches become compressed and | d. Frowers large, 
springing from the bundles of spines or crenations of the ridges. 
CuaracTeR oF THE Vartety. The tube of the flower shorter than 
the limb of the petals, the branches both winged and trigonal. 
Several stems or branches 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT PLANT. 
REFERENCE TO THE DissEcTIONS. 
I, Seed entire. 2, Ditto with the testa testa removed, and inv: vested, by the membranous Sey 3, the 
embryo. 
er; in decayi 
