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Fig. 297. — Opuntia keyensis. 



Type locality: Boot Key 

 Distribution: Hammocks 



Key 



Sable. 



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Key, Florida. Plants brought subsequently 



by Dr. Small from the Keys to Buena Vista, Miami 

 there observed by him under cultivation show the 

 cies to be distinct from either 0. dillcnii or 0. sU 

 with both of which it has been associated. 



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N. Y 



from a photograph of the plant in 



Miami 



Small on Key 



Largo 



See 



Figs. 298 and 299. — Flower of Opuntia 



keyensis. X0.5. 



183 a. Opuntia bonplandii (HBK.) Weber, Diet. Hort. 



Bois 894. 1898. (See page 168, ante.) 



Cactus bonplandii Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6: 69. 1823. 



Plants tall, 2 to 4 meters high, open-branching; joints ovate to obovate, 2 to 3 dm. long, dull 

 green; spines at first 2 to 7, pale yellow, acicular, i to 1.5 cm. long but soon fa hng off; flowers orange- 

 colored, about 6 cm. long and nearly as broad when fully expanded ; petals obtuse ; stamens short. 



Type locality: Cuenca, Ecuador 



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Ecuador 



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This species was collected 



Humboldt and Bonpland at Cuenca, Ecuad 



was first described as 



Cactus {Opuntia) bonplandii. Apparently the type was not pre- 



