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Gartenb. 6: 434. 1830) 

 Hort. 1862: 17 A. 1862 



Lcmairc 



seems to belong here rather than to O. spi 



If it came 



from Mexico, as reported, it could not be 0. spinosissima 

 of them is known from Mexico. 



Opuntia suhferox Schott (Pfeiffer, Enum 

 of this species, while O. leucacantha Idevior Salm-Dyck (Cact, Hort. Dyck. 1844. 47. 1845) 



1837) was given as a synonym 



hferox Salm-Dyck (Forster, Handb 



e based on O. suhferox. 

 Opuntia leucantha (De Candolle 



1846) were supposed 



1828), unpubHshed, is doubtless the 



same 



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Fig. 214. — Opuntia leucotricha. 



fulvispina laevior Salm-Dyck (Pfeiffer, Enum 



O. leucotricha; 



Salm 



(Cact. Hort. 

 ifescens Salm 



act. 164. 1837) and 0. Jul- 

 are given as synonyms of 

 . Cact. 493. 1846) is given 



synonym of fulvisp 



seem 



Mexico 



Bermuda 



Beard. 



Eneler and Prantl, Pflanzenfam: 3^^: f- 56, J; N. Mex. Agr. Exp 



Bull. 60: pi. 4, f. I, 2. 



Pla;rxx*x,v, figure ,, represents a flowering_ioint of a p.anH„ the «..ec^^^^^ 



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