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OPUNTIA. 



229. Opuntia nashii Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Card. 3: 446. 



Tree-like, or sometimes bushy, dull green ; main axis round 

 I to 4 meters high, 5 to 12 cm. in diameter, spiny; branches flat 

 or becommg round below, the principal ones continuous, i meter 

 long or more, 6 cm. wide or less, crenate, blunt; lateral branches 

 opposite or alternate, oblong to Hnear-oblong, often 3 dm. long, 

 and 8 cm. wide, only about 6 mm. thick, blunt, crenate; areoles 

 I to 3 cm. apart, slightly elevated; spines mostly 5 at each areole 

 (2 to 5), divergent, slender, straight, light gray, pungent, the 

 longer 3 to 6 cm. long; glochids very small, brownish; ovary 3 

 cm. long, 1.5 cm. thick, somewhat clavate, tubercled, the tuber- 

 cles bearing areoles and spines similar to those of the joints, but 

 the spines somewhat shorter; flowers 1.5 cm. broad when ex- 

 panded, red; petals broadly oval to obovate, blunt, about 8 mm. 

 long, much longer than the stamens. 



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Type locality: Inagua, Bahamas. 



Distribution: Andros, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, 

 Atwood Cay, Caicos Islands, Turks Islands, Ship Channel 

 Cay, and Inagua, Bahamas. 



Figure 2^=52 is from a photograph of a plant at Matthew 



a, Bahamas, taken by George V. Nas 

 from a photograph of a plant from 

 collection of the New York Botanic; 



same 



230. Opuntia bahamana sp. nov. 



Branched from near the base, bushy, about 1.5 m. high; 

 joints oblong to lanceolate, flat, and thin, i to 5 dm. long, 4 to 

 10 cm. wide, dull green, obtuse, scarcely undulate; leaves red, 

 subulate, 3 cm. long; areoles 1.5 to 3 cm. apart, scarcely elevated, 

 about 2 mm. in diameter, spineless, or bearing i to 4 acicular yel- 

 low spitles 2 cm. long or less when young; glochids few and short; 

 flower about 6 cm. broad; petals obovate, rose-tinted below, yel- 

 lowish rose above; sepals dark rose, whitish margined. 



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Distribution: Rocky slopes, The Bright, Cat Island, Ba- 

 hamas, collected by- 

 March 1907, No. 57( 



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Misc 



This plant was tentatively referred by us (Smiths. 



50: 525. 



Opuntia lanceolata Haworth 



It has been grown under glass at 



York ever since. 



but does not respond well to greenhouse conditions. 



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anomalous 



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Fig.. 253. — Opuntia nashii. 



habit 



from a sketch of a flower made by Dr. Millsp 

 discovered. 



specimen 



figu 



Cat Island, when the plant was 



macracantha 



1866. 



Erect 



glochids and several divergent spines 15 cm. long or less; upper portion of the trunk, and the 

 ultimate, oblong, or oblong-ovate, spreading branches flat, green, faintly shining, the areoles 2 to 

 3 cm. apart, scarcely elevated, the numerous glochids brown; spines i to 4, up to 15 cm. long, nearly 

 white, stout, subulate, or wanting; flowers often numerous; ovary 2.5 to 3 cm. long, densely beset 

 with glochid-bearing areoles; petals orange-yellow, i to 1.3 cm. long. 



Type locality: Cuba, in maritime depressions. 



Distribution: Southern coast of eastern Cuba and adjacent plains. 



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