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CACTUS gibbosus. 
Mr. Vere’s Melon-Thistle. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Cacti. Jussieu gen. 310. 
Div. II. Petala et stamina indefinita. 
CACTUS. Cal. urceolatus aut longior tubulosus, squamis nume-~ 
tosis appendiciformibus swpé imbricatis tectus, supra germen deciduus, 
Petala numerosa multiplici serie, summo calyci inserta, basi subcoalita, 
interiora majora. — Stam. ibidém inserta paritér infra coalita, antheris ob- 
Jongis. Stylus longus; stig. multifidam. Bacca infera, umbilicata 
squamularum vestigiis exasperata, 1-loc., ad parietes seminifera; poly- 
sperma seminibus in pulp nidulantibus. Arbores aut frutices, pingues, 
Sormé varii sepids aphylli et articulati, plerimque obducti spinis fasci- 
culatis et pilis in singulo fasciculo intermiatis. Opuntive stamina titilla- 
tione irritabilia. Jussieu gen. 311. 
Div. Echinomelocacti, subrotundi. 
C. gibbosus, oblongiusculus, 16-angularis; spinarum fasciculis in uni 
serie jugis costarum, alternantibus cum tuberculis totidem nudis 
elongato-mammosis et compressiusculis. 
Cactus gibbosus. Haworth pl. succ. 173. 
Turbinato-cylindricus, sordidé virens, pariim excedens 3 uncias, diametro 
2 cum dimidio, costato-angulatus ; costee longitudinales @ tuberculis obesis 
depressis coronatis areold pland fusco-tomentosd spinis sub-7 validissimis 
acicularibus serie simplici fasciculato-divergentibus (junioribus albo et fusco 
variis) armata, et ex aliis alternis macrioribus compresso-mammillaribus 
glabris inermibus atque plurimuim prominentioribus ; in summo_ vertice 
Jloriger, depressus, tuberculis armatis orbatus et mammillaribus diminutis 
tessellatus. Flores (hic 2 ) axillares in fasciculis spinarum costas terminan- 
tium, solitarii, ferme triunciales, inferius calycini virentes, superits petalini 
sordescentes et pallidescentes, intis candicantes, inodort. Cal. cylindricus 
squamis. obtusis appressis albidis dissite sparsis consitus, ubt recondit Sennen 
parim pennd majore crassior uncialis persistens, ultra deciduus.  Petala 
numerosa obcuneato-ligulata mucronato-obtusa, basi coalescentia, interiora 
longiora, viz latiora. Spine recentius enate profectO Erinacei similes ; 
seniores deperdunt coloris variegalionem, 
A species not yet received into any general enumeration 
of vegetables, nor till now known to botanists by the in- 
florescence. It has been cultivated in the hothouse of 
Mr. Vere, at Kensington Gore, from before 1808, and 
flowered in June last, for the first time. This gentleman’s 
ardener informs us, that it was raised from seed received 
from Jamaica by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, of the Ham- 
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