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THE CACTACEAE. 



The species commemorates Sir Thomas Hanbury, who, through his extensive garden 

 at La Mortola, Italy, contributed much to botany and horticulture. 

 Illustration: Gard. Chron. III. 35: f. 15. 

 Figure 193 represents joints of the plant sent from La Mortola, Italy, in 1913. 



159. Opuntia quitensis Weber, Diet. Hort. Bois 894. 1898. 



Bushy, sometimes 2 meters high; joints obovate, i to 4 dm. long, 8 to 9 cm. broad; areoles 

 small, distant, 2 cm. apart, bearing some white tomentum and short glochids; spines wanting, or i 



to 3, sometimes as many as 4 on old joints, straight, yellowish 

 brown, or nearly white when young, acicular, somewhat flexu- 

 ous, 2 to 3 cm. long; leaves green, minute, acute; flowers red, 

 12 to 15 mm. broad; petals erect, obtuse; anthers white; style 

 white, short and thick; stigma-lobes 13, white, about as long as 

 the style; fruit obovoid, red, nearly spineless, about 2 cm. long; 

 seeds about 3 cm. broad. 



FIG. 193. O. hanburyana. 



FIG. 194. O. quitensis. Xo.s- 



Type locality: Near Quito, Ecuador. 



Distribution: Ecuador. 



As observed by Dr. Rose in Ecuador in 1918, this species is very variable in habit, 

 for when grown in the open it is low and bushy with rather small joints, but when grow- 

 ing in thickets it becomes tall and has large joints. About Huigra, where it is very 

 common, it is often spineless, and when the spines are present they are few and weak. 

 In southern Ecuador there is a plant which has small, red flowers like this species, but 

 the joints have stout subulate spines. 



Figure 194 represents a joint of a plant obtained in 1901 for the New York Botanical 

 Garden from M. Simon, of St. Ouen, Paris, France. 



159a. Opuntia soederstromiana sp. nov. (See Appendix, p. 221.) 



