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high, twenty- flowered ; bracts shorter than the flowers, lanceo- — 
lata, deciduous; calyx two-thirds length of the corolla, its teeth | 
acuminate, the lower twice the length of the upper; corolla 8 
lines long, whitish or ochroleucous, the keel with a large purple — 
spot at the apex; petals very long-clawed; the tenth stamen : 
free one-third its length; ovary densely villous; pod one-fourth : 
inch long, not wrinkled, closely conformed to the shining dark — 
seed. 
Dry hills, Oak Grove, San Diego Co., June, 1882. (Parish 
643). a 
OPUNTIA BERNARDINA, Engelm. in herb. 
Loosely branched shrub, 2-4 ft. high, several-stemmed from 
the base; joints cylindrical, 3-12 inches long, with a slight 
scurfy pubescence, never deciduous; tubercles of the younger 
joints oblong and very prominent, shorter and less marked on the — 
older ; spines yellow, 4-1 inch long, one or two usually longer 
and stouter than the others ; flowers in a dense cluster at the ends 
of the previons year’s joints; inner segments of the perianth yel- 
low, outer greenish, or dull red; fruit ovate, less than an inch long, — 
deeply umbilicate, the tubercles bearing a single short spine, 
becoming at length dry, and only then deciduous, usually fertile, 
but few-seeded; seed flat, one-fourth inch in diameter, the 
rhaphe channeled. : 
Dry hills and mesas from the Coast Range to the San Berna 
dino Mts., in the San Jacinto and San Bernardino Valleys. 
This is the only Cylindropuntia in the region indicated, and 
apparently does not extend to the coast region or the deserts. 
Specimens distributed by the National Herbarium, ticketed 
‘“New Mexico, Geo. R. Vasey, February, 1881,” were probably — 
collected in Southern California, where Mr. Vasey was at that 
date. : 
0. basilaris, E. & B., var RAMOSA. Spreading, and le 
joints freely branching above ; joints and fruit glabrous ; other- 
wise as in the species. 
Dry washes and gravelly benches of the Colorado and Mojave» 
deserts, and occasionally in the less arid regions; dry tid8® 
7000 ft. alt., on the northern side of the San Bernardino Mts. 
near Bear Valley; San Mateo Pass; San Jacinto Plains as far as : 
