APPENDIX. 



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terete, slightly spirally twisted; flowers usually several on a joint, conspicuous; sepals subulate to 

 lanceolate, acute; corolla yellow, 7 to 9 cm. wide; petals numerous, the inner ones broadly obovatc 

 to flabellate, erose at the broad minutely mucronate apex; berries clavate, 5 to 6.5 cm. long, 

 red or reddish purple, many-seeded; seeds about 5 mm. in diameter. 



Type locality: Twelve miles west of Gainesville, Florida. 

 Distribution: Pinelands, northern peninsular Florida. 



It was first observed by Dr. Small near Gainesville, Florida, in 191 7, and plants were 

 taken to Mr. Charles Deerine's cactus garden at Buena Vista, Miami, where it has grown 



fruiting freely alongside of 0. pollardii which it resembles 



from in its lone clavate berries and more numerous 



Figu 



macateei 



(See page 133, ante.) 



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Small prostrate plant; joints 2.5 to 6 cm. long, orbicular to obovatc, glabrous, dull green, ni 

 age somewhat tuberculate; leaves linear, 10 mm. long or less, green; spines i to 3, brownish, the 

 longer ones up to 2.5 cm. long; flowers, including the ovary, 8 to 10 cm. long, 7 to 8 cm. broad, 

 yellow with a red center; ovary subcylindric, 5 to 6 cm. long, bearing conspicuous leaves, some- 

 times 12 mm. long. 



Differs from related species by its small joints and slender, elongated, leafy ovaries. 

 Collected by W. L. MacAtee at Rockpoirt, Texas, December 28, 1910 (No. 1992). 



Figures 292 and 293 represent the joints and flower of the plant. 



159 a. Opuntia soederstromiana sp. nov. 



(See page 154, ante.) 



Sometimes spreading and bushy, 

 but usually erect, 6 to 10 dm. high, very 

 spiny; joints obovate, 2 to 4 dm. long, 

 bright green when young, or sometimes 

 slightly glaucous, grayish green in age; 

 leaves subulate, small, reddish at top; 

 spines at first 2 to 5, but in age 10 or 

 more, when young reddish or pinkish 

 at base and paler above, soon gray 

 throughout, unequal, subulate, 4 cm. 

 long or less; flowers at first yellow but 

 soon orange to brick-red, rather large, 5 

 to 6 cm. long; petals few, about 10, ob- 

 long, retuse; filaments and style red- 

 dish ; stigma-lobes pale green ; 









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fruit 



obovate to oblong, 4 to 5 



usually spiny, 

 pressed umbilicus. 



red, juicy 



cm. long, 

 a de- 



with 



Collected at San Antonio, Prov- 



ince of Q 



Ecuador, by J. N 



Rose and George Rose, October 29, 



1918 (No. 23559). 



This plant was first collected 



for us by Ludovic Soderstrom of 



he request of the Presi- 

 Central and South Amer- 



Q 



Fig. 294. — Opuntia soederstromiana. 



ican Cable Company 



Although 



great care was taken in shipping the plants they a 1 died m transit 



Mr. Soderstrom's locality and collected herbarium living, and fo malm 



In 1918 Dr. Rose 



material 



enabled 

 same time 



made 



Figure 294 is from a photograph of the type plant taken by George 



