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_ CACTUS repandus. 
FVavy-angled Torch-thistle. 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Cacti. Jussieu gen. 310. Div. II. Petala et Stamina inde- 
finita. 
CACTUS. Supra vol. 2. fol. 137. 
Div. Cerei erecti, stantes per se. 
C. repandus, erectus, longus, octangularis: angulis compressis undatis: 
spinis land longioribus. Lin. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 667. 
Cactus repandus. Willd. sp. pl. 2.940. Hort. Kew. 2. 151. ed. 2. 3. 277. 
‘Cactus erectus: cylindricus sulcatus tenuior summitate attenuatus, aculeis 
confertis. Browne jam. 238. E 
Cereus gracilis. Mill. dict. 8. n. 8; (rectiis quam Cereus repandus ejusdem 
loct n. 5.in Hort. Kew. citatus ). 
Cereus altissimus gracilior, fructi extus luteo, intis niveo seminibus nigris 
pleno. Sloane jam. 2.158. Trew ehret.t. 14. 
Native of Jamaica and other parts of the West Indies, 
where it grows in the woods, to the height of fifteen or 
twenty feet. Sloane tells us that the fruit ripens in October, 
and is eaten. By some this is described as having the 
flavour of a strawberry. The dry stem of the plant is used 
by the natives for a torch to catch fish by, in the night-time. 
They hold it at the ends of their boats, lighted, and the 
fish leaping at it, they strike them with spears for the pur- 
pose. 
The plant rarely blossoms in this country. The present 
drawing was taken from one that flowered and ripened its — 
fruit, at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, 
Fulham. 
Introduced by Mr. Philip Miller, in 1728. It is far from 
being so well known in our collections as the Great Night- 
flowering Cereus (Cactus grandiflorus), nor indeed is it so 
deserving of the attention of the gardener, the flower being 
far less ornamental, and the fruit not worth being procured 
‘at the expense of a hothouse. 
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