1606 



OPUNTIA* aurantfaca. 



Orange-coloured Indian Fig. 





ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



p. 54.) 



Nat. ord. Cacte/e Jnss. 



yf Botany 



OPUNTIA Toum.—Sepala numerosa ovario adnata foliiformia, summa 

 plana brevia, intima petaliformia obovata rosacea expansa, tubo supra ovarium 

 nullo. Stamina plurima, sepalis breviora. Stylus cylindricus, basi constnctus. 



Stigmata plurima, erecta, crassa. ** 

 ssepifts spinifera. *" * 



Bacca ovata, 



iberculosa. 

 Cotyledones semi- 



Frutices 



r — .^.....^a. Embryo subspiralis, teretiusculus. 



teretes, germinantes foliacete, planse, crassee. Plumula parva. ------ 



trunco demiim tereti, juniore ramisgue rarissimis ajlindncis sapids plus 

 minus mmnr.ocoo „~*;„„.7„^<. „».t;~..Ke tmn*im nut oMonais fasciculos acu- 



diformia caducissima sub quoque fasciculo juniore. Flores e ft 



acu- 



Folia 



asciculis 



cut marginibus articulorum orti, fit 

 irritabilia. De Cand. prodr. 3. 471. 



Stamina tactu sub- 



§2. 



,. , ~ Divaricatae Haw. Caules humiles, ramis divergen {bus, articulis 

 '■neari-lanceolatis crassis subteretibus. Aculei fasciculati valitli. v. o. 

 O. auruntiaca; articulis linearibus v. lineari-lanceolatis divancatis apice 

 compressis basi teretibus atro-viridibus, aculeis 2-3 elongatis glaDm. 



Cactus aurantiacus. Gillies MSS. v . a tnlitnrti 



In horto bipedalis, et verosimiliter multb altior evasura. Flores sou tan , 

 mediocre*, vetalis luteis obovalis marqinibus infiexts, stamimbus albts 



A 



of Chile, whence it was originally sent to th 



country, in 1824, by Mr. Nugent 



It has also been brought 



•me by Dr. Gillies, whose unpublished Cactus 

 appears to be. The plant from which our d 



drawing 



* So called from having been found wild in 

 1 Grecian people. 



the country of the Opuntii 













