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Branched with the branches erect so as to resemble a 
candelabrum, an inch a half in diameter, with the angles 
rounded, armed with lascicules of short acicular spines. 
1* lowers about s inches long. Sepals cohering, with the 
end tree, lanceolate, attenuated at the apex, with long 
white setm in the axils. Petals white. Anthers very nu- 
merous. Style very long : stigma 12-cleft. Fruit ovoid, 
size ot a hen’s egg, tubereulated, with the tubers near the 
base sharply spinescent ; the upper ones marescent ; yel- 
low : seeds numerous, black, niuulant in a white insipid 
pulp. 
The flower of this species is large and beautiful, open- 
ing about sun down, and fading at sun-rise. 
b. Stem jointed, prostrate, rooting. 
3. Cereus grandiflorus. Night blowing Circus. 
Diffuse scandent 5-6-angled, setae 5-G scarcely 
longer than the wooliness. 
Cereus Americanus major articulatus, (lore maxhuo 
nocte se aperiente, suavissimum odorem spirante. Volk. 
Hasp. I. 133. t. 134. — C. grandiflorus, Mill. Diet. ed. 8. 
n. 11. — Hooker Bot. Mag. 3381. 
11 A If. Walls, rocks, and the decayed stems of trees. 
F L. Summer. 
Stem extending to a great length, 5-7-ongular : angles 
armed with fascicules 0-8 short setae intermixed with tufts 
of wool. Flowers sessile; when expanded about a span 
in diameter, white, fragrant, opening in the evening and 
closing after sun-rise. Stamens numerous, inclined to one 
side. Stigma multifid. Fruit size of a small orange, yellow. 
4. Cereus triangularis. Tri- angular Cereus. 
Creeping trigonal, prickles short quaternale 
sub-decussated. 
Cactus debilis triquetrus scandens, spinis brevisshn s, 
Browne, 46». — C. repens triangularis, Jacq. Amer. 152. — 
Cereus triangularis, Haw. Spa. ISO. 
II A B. On rocks and stoiie walls, &c. 
F L. After the rains. 
This is a very common species, not inferior in beauty 
or fragrance to the preceding. — Raqucttc de mars of the 
French. 
