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superiori instructs; spinis circa 20 inaequalibus 1.5 cm. non superanti- 

 bus non pungentibus plus rninusve arcuatis flavo-fuscis; glocbidiis paucis 

 (circa 50) in summa parte areolae sitis et non arete pungentibus apice 

 obtusis ; spinis lateralibus glochidiarum non eminentibus ; ovario paulo 

 quara 8 cm. longiore turbinato tuberculato ; areolis quam illae articularum 

 non minoribus et a lano modice copioso tectis et a spinis capillaceis 

 modice laxis ad 2 cm. longis flavo-fuscis munitis ; perigonio 3-3.5 cm. 

 maximo diametro ; lobis exterioribus subulatis, 3 mm. longis, sequenti- 

 bus late ovatis acutis mucronatisve verosimiliter flavo-viridibus, intimis 

 subobovatis fere 2 cm. longis ; staminibus fere in fundo infimo floris 

 crateriformis insertis permultis ; stilo 2 cm. longo ciasso ; stigmatibus 

 6 erectis incurvatis carnosis percrassis." — Wenman Isl. : Snodgrass & 

 /Teller, no. 917 (lib. Berl. & lib. Gr.). "Note. — The relatively large 

 flower brings this species near 0. myriacantha, Web., from which it 

 differs in the mode of growth, smaller articles, and non-pungent spines." 

 [K. Sch. in litt.]. Endemic. 



O. myriacantha, Weber in Bois, Dictionn. d'horticult. 894 (1898), 

 & Bull, du Mus. d'hist. nat. Paris, 1899, p. 313 (1899). — Albemarle 

 Isl. : Hassler Exp., ace. to ms. note of Engelm. (lib. Mo. Bot. Gard.). 

 Charles Isl.: Du Petit-Thouars [Br. Neboux] (hb. Mus. d'hist. nat. 

 Paris, & hb. Mo. Bot. Gard.). Indefatigable Isl. : Hassler Exp., 

 ace. to ms. note of Engelm. (lib. Mo. Bot. Gard.). Endemic. 



Opuntias also occur (ace. to field notes of several collectors) upon 

 Abingdon, Barrington, Bindloe, Chatham, Culpepper, Duncan, Hood, 

 Narborough, North and South Seymour, and Tower Islands, but as no 

 specimens of them have been secured it is impossible to refer them 

 with defmiteness to any of the foregoing species. Dr. Baur 1 says of 

 the genus : " Die grosse Opuntia hat einen verschiedenen Charakter 

 beinahe auf jeder Insel. Die Opuntia von Barrington, Indefatigable 

 und slld-Albemarle z. B. entwickelt einen sehr hohen Stamm ; die von 

 Hood und Charles besitzt einen verhaltnissmassig niederen und dickeren 

 Stamm ; die Opuntia von Jervis wiederum einen sehr niederen ; die 

 Verzweigung beginnt schon kurz- liber dem Boden ; die Opuntia von 

 Tower hat gar keinen Stamm, die Verzweigung beginnt sotbrt am Boden, 

 es ist ein niederer Busch, aber- kein Baum. Die Form von Bindloe 

 zeigt Charaktere, die zwischen den Individuen von Tower und Jervis 

 liegen." It seems not unlikely that the low plant on Tower lacking the 

 main trunk may be the same as Professor Schumann's 0. Helleri from 

 the not very distant island of Wenman. 



i Biol. Centralbl. xii. 247 (1892). 



