C l 557 ] 

 Cactus TuNA(y.) nigricans. Lesser 

 Black-spined Indian-Fig. 



C/^/} and Order. 



ICOSANDRIA MoNOCYNIA. 



Generic Characler. 



Cal. x-phyllus, fupcrus, imbricatus. Cor. multiplex. Bacca 

 l-locularis, polyfperma. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



CACTUS Tuna (Opuntia) articulis ovato-oblongis, fpinis fu- 



bulatis. 

 fa.) flava. 

 OPUNTIA Tuna; erefta, articulis late ovato-oblongis, fpinis 



fubulatis longis flavis. Hazvorth Succulent, p. 188. 

 TUNA major fpinis validis flavicantibus, floregilvo. Dill.FJtb. 

 _ 39 6 - '• 295./ 380. 

 CACTUS Turn. Willd. Sp. PI. 2. p. 944. Mart. Mill. Die!. 



20. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 1 79. 

 CACTUS Opuntia, tuna, Decand. PL grafles. 

 (|3.) elatior. 

 OPUNTIA elatior; erefta, articulis late ovato-oblongis, fpinis 



fubulatis longiffimis nigricantibus. Hazvorth I. c. p. 187. 



Mill. Dtcl, ed. 8. n. 4. 

 CACTUS Turn 0. Willd. Sp. PL 2. p. 944. Hort, Kew. ed. 



all. v. 3. p. 179. 

 TUNA elatior, fpinis validis nigricantibus. Dill. Elth. 395. 



, , *- 2 94-/379- 



(y.J nigricans. 



OPUNTIA nigricans; erefta, articulis oblongis lanceolatifque, 



fpinis diverfiformibus fulvo-nigris ; majoribus divaricatis 



3 — 10 linearibus. Hazvorth I. c. p. 189. 

 CACTUS nigricans. Hazvorth in Mifc. Nat. p. 137. 



Mr. Hawortii, in his Synopfis of fucculent plants, has 

 refbred the old genera of Cereus and Opuntia which 





