OPUNTIA. 



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spines, and with small tufts of grayish wool; older joints bearing at all areolcs 5 to 8 yellowish 

 spines similar to those of the trunk, and brown glochids 6 or 8 mm. long; flowers about 2.5 cm 

 broad; sepals as broad as long, or broader, apiculate; petals yellow to orange, ovate, apiculatci 

 spreading; stamens much shorter than the petals; ovary cylindric to obovoid-cylindric, terete or 

 nearly so, 4 to 5 cm. long, its distinctly elevated areoles close together, only 5 or 6 mm. apart, 

 bearing brown glochids 2 mm. long, but no spines; fruit oblong-obovoid, about 6 cm. long. 



Type locality: Hispaniola. 



Distribution: Yi\siD2cmo\3.\ Desecheo Island, Porto Rico. 



small 



masses 



from 



organism that the Cactus moniliformis of Linnaeus 



It was on this stage 



alized plate above cited, was based; this illustration is, however, apparently erroneous in 

 showing the style as long- exser ted. 



The names Opuntia dolabriformis and Opui 

 (Enum. Cact. 167. 1837) as synonyms of O. /( 



liciata were published by PfeilTcr 

 Some of the joints and, perhaps, 



some 



Med. Antill. ed. 2. 7: nl. sid, as Cactier moni 



Plumier, PI. Amer. ed. Burmann 



==r^ 





Fig. 261. 



intia moniliformis. The same species as 260. hut 

 showing a different mode of growth. 



Fig. 262.— Opuntia moniii 



formis. X0.66. 



from a photograph of a plant at Azua, Santo Domingo, taken by 



G 



from a photograph taken by Frank E. Lut 



Desecheo Island, Mona 



Porto Rico, in 19 14 



9 



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mass 



small joints below and the mature 

 1 of the small joints of the Desecl 





