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THE CACTACEAE. 



The soecies commemorates Sir Thomas Ha 



garden 



at La Mortola, Italy, contributed much to botany and horticulture. 



Illustration: Gard. Chron. III. 35: f. 15. 



Figure 193 represents joints of the plant sent from La Mortola, Italy, in 1913. 



159. Opuntia quitensis Weber, Diet. Hort. Bois 894. 1898. 



Bushy, sometimes 2 meters high; joints obovate, i to 4 dm. long, 8 to 9 cm. broad; areoles 

 small, distant, 2 cm. apart, bearing some white tomentum and short glochids; spines wanting, or i 



to 3, sometimes as many as 4 on old joints, straight, yellowish 

 brown, or nearly white when young, acicular, somewhat flexu- 

 ous, 2 to 3 cm. long; leaves green, minute, acute; flowers red, 

 12 to 15 mm. broad; petals erect, obtuse; anthers white; style 

 white, short and thick; stigma-lobes 13, white, about as long as 

 the style; fruit obovoid, red, nearly spineless, about 2 cm. long; 

 seeds about 3 cm. broad. 





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Fig. 193.— O. hanhuryana. X0.5. 



ility: Near Quito, Ecuador 



Fig. 194. — O. quitensis. X0.5 



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Distribution: Ecuador 



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1 91 8, this species is very variable in habit, 



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and has large joints. 



small 



common 



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spineless, and when the spines are present they are few and weak. 



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Ecuador there is a plant which has small 



the joints have stout subulate spines. 



from M. Simon 



for the New York 





159a. Opuntia soederstromiana sp. nov. (See Appendix, p. 221.) 



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