Plate 20. 
CLAUD’S CEKEUS OE TOECH THISTLE. 
Cereus Claudiana. 
We have here a beautiful Cactus, with the general habit and 
character of the well-known Cereus sjpeciosissimus , producing 
moderate-sized flowers, which are remarkable alike for their 
exquisite colouring and their compactness and regularity of 
form. It was raised from seed, in the island of Jersey, and was 
given by the gentleman who received it from thence, and after 
whose son it is named, to Mr. G. Fry, of the Manor Nursery, 
Lee. The specimens from which our figure was taken were 
furnished in June last. 
The stems of this new Cactus are quadrangular, with four 
prominent wing-like angles, obscurely notched in a sinuated 
manner, and hearing small tufts of spines in the notches. The 
flowers are about four inches in diameter, funnel-shaped, with 
numerous petals, which lie in about four series, and are all of 
nearly equal length, producing a remarkably regular and com¬ 
pact flower-cup; a few additional sepalline leaves, merging into 
bracts, are produced towards the exterior base of the shouldered 
perianth, which, exclusive of the tube and ovary, is about two 
and a half inches long. The colour of the inner petals is a 
bright purplish-rose or rosy-purple, with a streak of crimson 
down the centre, and the outer series of sepalline divisions, of 
which the extreme tips only are visible in the spaces between 
the closely-imbricating petals, are crimson. There is a large 
Plate 20.—Ceketjs Clatjdiaxa : stems quadrangular, four-winged, the 
angles sinuately notched, with tufts of small spines as in speciosissimus; flowers 
medium-sized, remarkably even and compactly formed, the inner petals bright 
purplish-rose, with a crimson bar, the outer ones crimson. 
