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OPUNTIA. 



157 



most comm 



industry 



We 



fi 



Manchester 



1908) is 



common 



Some of the ioints are norm 



y 



may 



the leaves 



small 



om 



1840), given as a synonym of Cactus 



name 



Opuntia deflexa Lemaire 



k (Cact. Hort 



Illustrations: 



1845)- 



1839) was given as a synonym of 

 synonym of 0. elatior dcjlcxa Salm- 



Hort 



i: 154 [ = Lobeliu 



Icones 2: 



Op 



Mus. Nac. Montev 



Mag. 68: pi. 391 1 ; Dept. Agr. N. S. W. Misc 



W. 24: facincf d. 864; Edwards 



Tourn. Dept. Agr. Vict. 6: pi. 25; Martins, Fl 



Pois. PI. Nat. Al. Vict. pt. i. pi. 

 [10], [32], all asOpuntia monacantka; 

 Amer. Garden 1 1 : 529 ; Cact. Journ. 

 i: 167, these last two as Opuntia 

 monacantka variegata; Vellozo, Fl. 

 Flum. 5: pi. 32, as Cactus urumhcha; 

 De Candolle, PI. Succ. Hist. 2 : pi. 

 138 [B] ; De Tussac, Fl. Antill. 2 : pi. 

 3 1 , these last two as Cactus opuntia 

 tuna; Gard. Chr5n. III. 47 ^ f- i74. 



fi 



um 



Fig. 197- — O. cardiospcrina. X0.4 



pier, Sukkulenten f. 122, this as 

 Opuntia tuna; Addisonia i : pi. 38- 



Plate XXVII, figure 3, represents 

 a flowering joint of a plant pre- 

 sented to the New York Botanical 

 Garden by Mr. Gustav Rix in 1900. 



165. Opuntia elata Link and Otto in 



Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 361. Fig. 196.-0. eiata. X0.4 



An erect plant, i meter high or more; joints thick, dark ^een oblong. 5 f J5 ^-J-g.^a^ 

 as broad as long; leaves minute, caducous; areoles remo e, ^^\f !^^ ^^^^^^'^^^ ,tems and there 

 short white wool, usually spineless; spines if P^'^^e^t onl> i to 3. p j^t^„ 



more, horn-colored, stiff, sometimes 3.5 cm. l«"g ^ g ^'^^^ toS^ fiLmen^^^^^^^^ 

 flowers about 5 cm. broad, orange-yellow; petals obtuse broad, filament^ snor^ 

 fruit oblong, 6 cm. long, spineless, with a truncate umbilicus, seeds 6 mm. 



^^:i:;:::«^-prgut but acceding to sa-m-^y;-; -^ ^:f^^:;:r^^ 



p.o.aUy Cu.a.ao,our exp^^^^^^^^^^^^ .-dens to .oad- 



ornament 



sides and waste grounds. . . , . believe it is most 



Schumann did not know where to place this species, but we beheve 



related to Opuntia vulgaris. 



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