nate the recurvedly divaricated branch, and incline down- 
wards as well as the flower. . 
The species is of the same division as Cactus speciosus 
already figured in this work (v. 4. fol. 304). It has how- 
ever several peculiar features, of which a ringently slanted 
reflexed expansion of the flower, ascending stamens, and 
crescentwise foreshortened joints of the branches seem the 
most: prominent. 
_ Stem very short, soon and Saeils divided ; branches 
widely and divaricately extended, horizontally recurved, 
foliaceously compressed, the edges perpendicular, glaucous, 
jointed, the joints cuneately oblong, lunately truncate at 
the upper end, about an inch long, with a few irregular 
axillary pencilled notches at the edges.. 
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