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quimilo 



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5 dm. long by 2.5 dm. 



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twisted, 7 to 14.5 cm. long; flowers red, 7 cm. broad; fruit pear-shaped to globular, 5 to 7 cm. long, 

 greenish yellow; seeds 8 mm. broad, 1.5 to 2 mm. thick, with broad, thick, white margms. 



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specimen in fruit with the long spines so characteristic of this species was obtained by 



H. M. Curran at Quilino, Cordoba, 

 Argentina. Dr. Shafer's specimens 

 collected at Rio Piedras, show that the 

 trunk-areoles sometimes bear as many 

 as eight spines. 



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Fig. 235. — Joint of Opuntia quitmlo. X0.3 



Fig. 236. — Fruit of Opuntia quimito. X0.3 



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Figure 235 represents a joint obtained by Dr. Shafer at Rio Piedras, Salta, Argentina, 

 January 4, 1917 (No. 34); figure 236 represents the fruit from the same plant; figure 237 

 is from a photograph of a flowering joint of the plant, contributed by Dr. Spegazzini. 



The following may belong to this series : 



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Opuntia miYPETALA Griffiths, Bull. Torr. Club 43: 529. 1916. 



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Tall, erect plant, 2 meters or more high; joints large, obovate, 26 to 45 cm. long, 14 to 19 cm. 

 broad, much contracted below, bright dark green, somewhat tuberculate at the areoles; subulate, 

 5 to 6 mm. long; areoles large, often i cm. in diameter, 4 to 5 cm. apart; spines white at least on 

 second year's growth, 3 to 5; central spine largest, porrect, 3 to 4 cm. long; flowers yellow, fading 

 to rose-purplish ; petals erect, 3 cm. in diameter ; style white ; stigma-lobes 6, light green. 



Known only from cultivated plants received from the Berlin Botanical Garden. = 



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