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THE CACTACEAE. 



cimcns 



It 



is a picturesque feature of the flora of its native habitat. 



from 



Naval Station, 



Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, taken by Marshall A. Howe in 1909; figure 257 is from 

 tocraph of a plant from the same place, grown at the New York Botanical Garde 



Fig. 254. — Joint of Opuntia 



bahamana. 



Fig. 255. — Flower 



of the same. 



Fig. 256. — Opuntia macracantha 



spinosissima 



1768 



Cactus spinosissimus Martyn, Cat. Hort. Cant. 88. 1771. 

 Consolea spinosissima Lemaire, Rev. Hort. 1862: 174. 1862. 



Erect, up to 5 m. high, the trunk sometimes 8 cm. in diameter, densely clothed with areoles 

 bearing many long brownish glochids and acicular, deflexed or spreading spines up to 8 cm. long; 

 ultimate branches flat, dull green, narrowly oblong, 2 to 4 times as long as wide, their areoles i to 

 1.5 cm. apart, slightly or not at all elevated, bearing brown glochids and i to 3 acicular, straw-col- 

 ored or whitish spines 8 cm. long or less, or spineless; ovary 3 to 8 cm. long, often flattened, its 

 areoles bearing short glochids; petals about i cm. long, oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, at 

 first yellow, turning dull red. 



Distribution: 



Jamaica 



Plate XXXVI, from a 

 bv William Harris in 



Jamaica 



Figure 



Miss H. A. Wood at Hope 



Jamaica 



f 



from a photograph of a plant obtained 



John F. Cowell in Jamaica and sent from the Buffalo Botanical Garde 



the New York Botanical Garden in 1904. 



M 



1908. 



Trunk terete, 7 cm. thick at base, 5 cm. thick at top, 6 dm. high or less, branching at the summit, 

 the branches divaricate-ascending, narrowly oblong, much compressed, 40 cm. long or less, 5 to 



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