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CACTUS rTauncatus. 
Truncated Cactus. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nat. Onv. NOPALEE, Juss. ined, De Cand.— 
CACTI, Juss. Gen. Pl. Div. PHYLLANTHI. 
Gen. Cuar.—Cal. e squamis numerosis imbricatis, superus. Peiala nume- 
rosa, calyci inserta, interiora majora, basi coalita. Stigma multifidum. 
Bacca umbilicata, polysperma. Semina intra pulpam nidulantia—Fru- 
tices pingues, aphylli sepius articulati, spinosi vel fasciculatim pilosi, 
compressi vel angulati. Flores plerisque magni, speciosi. 
Cactus truncatus; caulibus articulatis ramosis, ramis cernuis, articulis 
compressis oblongis truncatis, limbo floris obliquo. ~ 
Flowering plants not exceeding at most 8 or 10 inches in length. The stems 
rise erect, and soon become btanched, the branches drooping. Whole 
than the tube of the corolla, in 2 rows, the arising from ‘the 
base of the corolla, the inner, from the receptacle, and forming a tube 
around the style, (see f. 2.) Filaments slender, filiform ; Anthers oblong, 
2-celled, yellow, as well as the pollen. Pistil: -Germen obconical, small, 
: se gs 
inferior, greenish, with rose-colour, smooth. Style filiform, red, 
as long as the’ stamens, a little curved | Stigma clavate, form- 
ed of 6 connivent 
This beautiful species, to the brilliant colout of whose blos- 
soms no pencil can do justice, flowered in our Botanic Garden 
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