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orth and was described as follows : 



filaments 



stamens: stie^mas 



De Candolle savs the flowers are a inches in diameter 



lines long, sulphur-colored. 



Pfeiffer states the joints are 5 to 6 inches long by i to 1.5 inches broad; that the leaves 

 are red and the spicules yellow. 



Opuntia clongata laevior Salm-Dyck (Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 242. 1850) may or may not 

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Cactus decumanusWiMcnow.'Enum.Fl.Suppl. 3^. 1813 



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Opuntia gymnocarpa Weber, Diet. Hort, Bois 893. 1898 



Opuntm labouretmna Console* in Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 717. 1898 



opuntia ficus-indtca decumana Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires III. 4: 512 190s 



opuntia ficus-tndtca gymnocarpa Spegazzini, Anal. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires III 4- 512 T905 



or ^l°nT^J^'^^' """k^' branched plants ; joints elongated, more or less spatulate, 35 cm. long 

 or more 10 to 12 cm. broad, rounded at apex, somewhat cuneate at base, pale green, not at all 

 tuberculate; areoles small, distant; spmes sometimes wanting or sometimes i or 2, short, white; 

 glochids yellow (brown in some specimens referred here) ; flowers conspicuous, 8 cm. broad, orange - 

 red; ovary elongated, 7 to 8 cm. long, bearing numerous large glochids. 



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*Berger (Hort. Mortol. 409. 1912) says this is known as O. labourettana Console. 



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