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CACTUS truncatus. | 
_ Ringent-flowered Cactus. 
: ; f ‘ <i> bi 2 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Cacti. Jussieu gen. 310. ‘Div. I. Petala et stamina indefi: 
nita. ; 
/NopaLem. Jussieu MSS.;' (fide Decand. .théor. bot. 246. 
-_=;) 2. 65). 
CACTUS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 187, . 
yitik WL Div. Phyllanthi. . 
C. truncatus, ramis recurvo-divaricatis, ‘foliaceo-compressis, articul 
: rvoreiyancels E05ci is apice 
Junato-truncatis ; floribus terminalibus solitariis nutantibus, SpiGtnts- 
ringentibus, staminibus adscendentibus, stigmatibus compacté conni- 
ventibus. 
Cactus truncatus. Link enum. hort. berol. alt. 2. 24. 
Epiphyllum truncatum. Haworth suppl. 85. 7 
Planta perennis, dichotoma, glauciuscula, humilis, caule brevi, ramis 
articulatis, recurvo-divaricatis, subfoliaceo-compressis, articulis cuneato-ob- 
longis, subuncialibus, dentibus paucis vagis axillari-penicillatis utrinque 
serratis, apice lunulato-precisis. Flores subtriunciales super fundum candi- 
dum roseo-rubentes, terminales, sessiles, solitarii, nutantes: petala imbricata 
turbinato-conniventia, ricti reflexo deorsiim obliquato superné patentia. 
Stamina numerosa, fasciculata, subadscendentia, petalis qualia. Stigmata 
plura (5-72) atrosanguinea in conum compacta. Germ. viride, turbinato- 
oblongum, flore pluriés brevius. : 
_ The fine blossom of this newly imported species made its 
first appearance, we believe, last summer in several of our 
gardens together. 
The drawing was taken from Mr. Hood's collection, 
Vauxhall Road; where it is cultivated in the hothouse. 
We were favoured with an excellent representation of the 
entire plant, by Mrs. Harrison, from a sample raised from 
Brazil seed, at Aigburgh, near Liverpool, in 1821. We re- 
gret, notwithstanding the size was too large for our work, 
we had not inserted a diminished outline of that draw- 
ing; the divaricated flexure of the branches, evidently a 
specific habit, being skilfully characterized in it. In our 
plate there is room only for the termination of the branches 
with their flowers of the natural size, and these are 
shown upright; but in their place on the plant they termi- 
