114 



thu cactaceab. 



sliehtlv tinKcd with red, oblong, rounded at apex; filaments short, greenish below ; style and stigma- 

 £ cCm coS or yellowish; ovary bright green, narrowed downward; fruit red, obovoid, about 



cm 



Type locality: Jamaica 

 Distribution: Southern 



Jamaica, West 



Op 



It was described by Linnaeus as Cactus 

 rly part of the Nineteenth Century it was 

 renamed Opuniia humilis and also 0. polyantha, and has long passed under the latter name. 

 Opuntia tuna, however, is one of the commonest Opuntia names in our botamcal literature. 



MaW^x 2^s puntia 



name 



most common 





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Fig. 141. — Opuntia tuna 



Fig. 142. — Opuntia tuna. X0.5 



common Mexican name for opuntias, and many 



O. tuna. So far as 



Opuntia midtifl 

 by Nicholson (Did 



om* studies indicate, this species is confined to the Jamaica 



figured 



4); this figure is republished by Riim 

 Knippel (Kukteen, pi. 28), both callin 



Opuntia polyantha; while W. Watson (Cact. Cult, f . 79) uses the same 

 it 0. dillenii. 



Opuntia coccinca (Pfeiflfer, Hnum 



U. S. 2: 247. 1830), also unpublished. 



I37) is given as a synonym of u. tuna 

 from O. coccinea Rafinesque (Med. Fl 



following names seem 



not formally pubhshed: Opuntia flexihilis (Pfeiffer, Knum. Cact. 161. 1837); 0. tuna 



Salm-Dvck (Cact. Hort 



I 



Dyck. 186. 



Salm-Dvck (Cact. Hort 



Illustrations: Loudon, Encycl. PI. ed. 3. f. 6878, as Cactus 



Salm-Dyck (Hort. 



1844.47. 1845). 

 a: Wiener Illustr. 



Kakteen 2 : ol. 7'^ : Forster. Handb. Cact 



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