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Type locality: Rock Sound, Eleuthcra Island, Bahamas. 



Distribution: Eleuthera and Great Ragged Island, Bahamas ; Cayo Paredon Grande, Cuba 



Figure 259 is from a photograph of the type plant taken at the type locality by Dr 



\ Millsnauirh. Februarv 22. 1007. 



moniliformis 



del, Nom. ed. 2. 2: 221. 1841. 



Cactus moniliformis Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 468. 1753. 

 Cactus ferox Willclcnow, Rnum. PL Suppl. 35. 1813. 

 Optintia ferox Haworth, Suppl. PI. Succ. 82. 1819. 

 Cereus moniliformis De Candollc, Prodr. 3: 470. 1828. 

 Consolea ferox Lcmaire, Rev. Hort. 1862: 174. 1862. 

 Opuntia microcarpa Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 714. 



1898. Not Kngclmann. 1848. 

 Nopalca moniliformis Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 750 



1898. 

 Opuntia testudinis-crus Weber in Gosselin, Bull. Mus. 



Ilist. Nat. Paris 10: 389. 1904. 



Opuntia haiticnsis Britton, Smiths. Misc. Coll. 50: 513. 

 1908. 



Trunk somewhat flattened above, 3 to 4 m. high, 

 branching at the top, densely armed with acicular, yel- 

 lowish or gray spines 12 cm. long or less, their bases 

 clothed with yellowish-white wool i to 2 cm. long; joints 

 obliquely linear-oblong to obovate, i to 3 dm. long, 13 cm, 

 wide or less, about i cm. thick, obtuse, distinctly areolate- 

 reticulate, the areoles somewhat elevated, i to 1.5 cm. 

 apart, those of young joints bearing near the edges 3 to 6 

 acicular spines i to 2.5 cm. long, those on the sides of the 



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young joints often spineless or with 



I to 3 yellowish 



Fig. 259. — Opuntia millspaughii 



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moniliform 



