908 OPUNTIACEAE 
mediate ones somewhat ce the inner E Ta psi pointed: 
ues salmon-colored, E -like or short-campanulate, 3-3.5 wide; petals 
r f 
SOUL. undulate, scarcely, i all, nate: anthers about 
berry obovoid, 4—6 cm. long, s slightly eon at the base, dc umbili- 
oe elds the edge, depressed i e middle: seeds numerous, about 5 
in ter.—Hammocks and MAE pora dunes, Florida Keys and Cape 
Sable er) e Cape Romano region, Fla. 
O. tenuiflora Small. Plant partly d 1 m. tall or less, usually much- 
TA ched and decumbent and diffuse, with coarse fibrous roots: joints spatulate 
to elliptic-spatulate, or narrowly elliptie j MUS 1.5—£ dm. long, i cara pid 
green and often pui glaueous: leaves ovoid i ovoid- o , 9-3. 5m 
long, Spr reading o ing, a ed by short spin a not very 
nspicuous, mos P s spines mostly 3-6 Nd pale-yellon, becoming 
sord dy ellow when dry pale-brown or dica tinged with when wet, 
curved, the longer s 2-5 em. long: flowers few Sip a “clavate, 44.5 
em. long, pr omer “ridged and tubercu e. with a — dud -like pad 
RE Tru B. ird deltoid, to broadly reniform and with lateral wings o 
shoulder ong acute, the inner o e m p rh UN ‘obovate, 
r - campanu 
; petals obovate 
cm. long, rounded or truncate at the apex, mucronate, slightly ele at the 
ase: nus about 2.5 mm. long: berry ind rab ate, 6—7 cm. long, pu D. 
the stipe-like base nearly or S. as long a ody, the umbilicus coneave 
eds numerous, 3-3.5 mm. long. uide den us Florida Key 
21. O.Dillenii (Ker) Haw. Plant n ond striet Ka wu) branehed 
or much-branched and sometimes diffus sometimes 2 m. tall and often 
siege tree-like, with stout fibrous E joints elliptic to o. or oval, 
o 1- : dm. lon ng, tight green, eens glaucous: leaves lu e 2-5 
long, scending, str i d or nearly e PE green, accompanied by 
bristles D without spines: ee E^ ote but conspicuous, mostly armed: 
spines stoutish, clustered, usu ally 3-6 obe. flattened, often curved, pale- 
re, at n rity dee s yellow eae LAE ordid when d paler yellow when 
: flowers everal on a joint: hypanthium narrowly obconie, 4.5—5.5 em. long, 
lightly ridged, not uc at the De sepals green, de pue o to pios 
gular or deltoid, 3-9 mm. long, wingless or obscurely winged, acute; the in 
orbicular- reniform to rhombie-reniform, 1.5-2 em. long, abr ee oid: 
corolla yellow, salmon, or reddish, rotate, 6-8 em. wide; petals rather few 
broadly obovate to cuneate-flabellate, 3.5-4.5 em. long, M p usually notched 
at the apex, decidedly narrowed at the base: anthers abou mm. long: berry 
pyriform, 5-8 cm. long, or sometimes dip purple, narrowed to the base, the 
umbilicus flattish with a depressed center: seeds numerous, 5—6 mm. in diameter, 
turgid.—Hammocks, along or near the a tidal hammocks, and coastal sand- 
dunes, pen. Fla., adj. islands and Florida Keys.— (W. I., Merx.) 
indheimeri Engelm. Plant robust, 3 m. tall or less, often widely 
Pn ‘throughout, € thus for ming a large 'shrub with coarse fibrous roots: 
i Run ng, mucronulate, dark-green near the er; inner sepals cuneate- 
late, m ucronate, thin-edged: corolla rotate, oe w; petals about 10, 
the fete broadly obovate, 4-5 em. long, the inner scarcely as broad as the outer, 
