92 



TH^ CACTACHAB. 



although in but one locahty. A bountiful supp 

 photographs were taken, and fruit and seeds ot 



Opuntia tuberiformis Philippi (Anal. Mus. Nac 



material was sent home 



T- 



Schumann 



Chile 1891^: 28. 1891), referred here 

 may possibly belong to some Platyopuntia, 



for it is described as having ovate joints only 5 mm 

 Andes in the Province of Tarapaca, Chile. 



comes from 



Chron. III. ^4: f. 40; Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 12 : 172 ; Cact. J 



I 



formidahilis 



h 



Figure 105 represents a joint of a plant collected by Dr. Rose at Mendoza 



m 1915 



1899. 



Joints 



rauppiana Schumann, Monatsschr 



cm 



in greatest diameter; glochids yellow, 5 cm. long; spines 12 to 



14, sometimes as many as 

 2 cm. long, hardly pungent. 



very 



bristle-like, 



Type locality: In the Andes. 



Distribution: Bolivia, according to Schumann 



Little is known of the habit of this plant. 



greenhouse 



specimen 



some 



Fig. 106. — Opuntia rauppiana. 



clumps Hke the one figured as Opuntia grata by Fries. 

 Illustrations: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 9: 118; Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen Nachtr. 



(same) , 

 Figure 106 is copied from the illustration above cited. 



Dpuntia subterranea R. E. Fries, Nov. Act. Soc. Sci. Upsal, IV. i^: 122. 1905. 



Almost buried in the sand, simple or few-branched from a thick root 7 to 12 cm. deep: ]^^^^ 

 ^ o fn A cm loner- fnhprrleQ low sninpQ t to 7. all radial, short, whitish, recurved, appresseds 



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Fig. 107. — Opuntia subterranea 



Fig. ioS. — Opuntia hickenii. X0.6. 



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