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THI5 CACTACKAE. 



114. Opuntia comonduensis (Coulter) Britton and Rose, Smiths. Misc. Coll. 50: 519. 1908. 



Opiintia nngustata comonduensis Coulter, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 3: 425. 1896. 



Low, spreading plants, sometimes 2 dm. high and forming broad clumps; joints obovate to 

 orbicular, 12 to 15 cm. long, softly pubescent; areoles large, filled with brown wool and yellow glo- 

 chids; lower areoles spineless, the upper ones bearing i or 2, rarely 3, or on old stems as many as 10, 

 slender spines, 3 to 5 cm. long or longer, yellow; flowers, including ovary, 6 cm. long, yellow; fruit 

 purple, 4 cm. long, spineless; seeds 4 to 4.5 mm. broad, thick. 



Type locality: Comondu, Lower Calif orn 

 Distribution: Southern Lower California 



Mrs 



Opuntia 



angustata. 



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Fig. 155. — Opuntia comonduensis. 



Brandegee in 1889. 



Jose and on Carmen 



collection. 



Washingt 



ily from herbarium specimens collected by Mr. 

 ilected considerable material both near the town 

 has since been in cultivation in the New York 

 The above description is based largely on this 



sometimes 



material 



Figure 155 is from a photograph by Mr. T. W. Smillie of a plant collected by Mr. K- W 

 on and Mr. E. A. Goldman in Lower California in 1006. 



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