902 OPUNTIACEAE 
VIII. FSLATIORES 
Piana erect, but diffusely branched: spines banded: hypan 
hium broadly turbinate: berry broadly obovoid, not 
poet ie cd at the base. 29. O. zebrina. 
X. FICUS-INDICA 
Plants very robust, mo r less tree-like, the aa joints 
supported on the SUD terete trunk. most y abou dm 
long: corolla large, mostly 8-10 m wide: berry red or 
orange, said to be gome une: yello 30. O. Ficus-Indica. 
X. LEUCOTRICHAE 
Plants erect, often with the joints of the main stem fused 
into a trunk, the older parts especially, clothed with 
white hair-like | bristles : joints with numerous, rather 
close-set ar : hypanthium with numerous areolae : 
berry Sea 31. O. leucotricha. 
almost bare limestone some sand and humus has collected, very 
irregularly branched, often ih a tuber 
ou S: ints suborbieular, Wer 
mo subilobose oval or bro adl y obovate, 
mos ly 4-8 em. long, very thick, frequently 
very turgid, lght-green, often much- 
branched, loosely attached to oS other : 
leaves ovoid to conic-ovoid, 2- ong, 
ir] and slightly curved ieee mo green 
r purplish, aecompanied by fine bristles, but 
without he areolae not very conspicu 
us: nes Mun iios solitary, Pu 
: O. a Small. R oo often growing in large irregular patches 
, the larger ones 2 
flowers usually solitary on a join yp 
th t e: sepal een, the outer , 
subulate-lanceolate, 5-8 mm. long, acute: corolla light-yellow, 2.5-3.5 em. wide; 
petals few, obovate, usually minutely pointed: berry urceolate, 2-2.5 cm. long, 
somewhat tuberculate, red or purple-red, rounded 2 bei base, the a 
relatively ve ad, coneave: seeds qu flattish —H 
, S end of Big Pine Key, Fla 
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fruit in their native haunts, they Te thus far failed to ios in euin za- 
tio 
more diminutive; t epos narrowly ellipsoid to narrowly cylindric, more or less 
ttened, 2.5—8 em. long or longer and wo cien. bright-green, very loosely 
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2. O. Tracyi Britton. Plant similar to that of O. Drummondti, but usually 
int nthiu ur 
the outer subulate, dic iude triangular, the i d edd corolla 
bright-yellow, nearly similar to t b of O. DOT rry narrowly turbi- 
nate to cla Maas rbinate, 3-4 em. long, purple, the un E depressed: seeds 
few, 5-5.5 mm. in diameter, Mrd —Sand-dunes and sandy woods near the 
coast, NE Fla. and S E Ga. to Mis 
O. Drummondii Graham. Plant prostrate, diminutive a scattered in the 
sa and, or diffusely sprawling, sometimes forming depressed mats by the copious 
branching and hanging together by the armament, E po ellipsoid, 
