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5417. Opuntia Mill. 



Opuntia curassavica Mill. Gard. Diet, eel. VIII n. 7. Juffrouw, 

 Kalieber, Kaaka die poesji. 



Curasao: Bit (4900); S (5028). 



Aruba : Cank (6377). 



Bonaire: locality unknown. 



Widely dispersed on the three Islands. 



Antill. (Schumann Monogr. Cact.). 



Opuntia tunoides Britton et Rose in manuscr. Juffrouw. 

 Friekampeeuw, Sjangran, Toena, Toena spanjool. 



urasao. I Widely dispersed over the three Islands. 

 Aruba: Britton & Shafer 2904. 



Bonaire : I 



Opuntia elatior Mill. Diet. VIII. n. 4; 



Tuna elatior, spinis validis nigricantibus, in Dill. Hort. Eltham. 

 p. 395, t. 294. 



Curacao : 



- ' Not widely dispersed. 



Bonaire : 



5421. Peireskia Mill. 



Peireskia bleo DC. Prodr. Ill (1828) 475. Goeamaatsjoe. 

 Cultivated. [Nova Granata, Brasilia.] (Schumann Monogr. Cact,). 



216. Lythraceae. 



5474. Ammannia Linn. 



Ammannia auriculata Willd. Hort. Berol. I (1806) t. 7. 



Bonaire: Rk (7153); R (7233); Bonk (7486). 



In warmer countries of both hemisph. (Koehne Pflanzenr. 



IV. 216). 



Ammannia coccinea Rottb. Plant, hort. Univ. Ilavn. Progr. 

 descr. (1773) 7. 



Curasao: Britton & Shafer 3010. 



America and Asia. (Koehne Planzenr. IV. 216). 



Ammannia latifolia Linn. Spec. (1753) 119; Gris. Fl. 270. 



Curasao: Bat (5226). 



Bonaire: Macb (7122); Plan (7296). 



Warmer and tropical countries of America. (Symb.). 



