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THE CACTACEAE. 



Type locality: Rock Sound, Eleuthera Island, Bahamas. 



Distribution: Eleuthera and Great Ragged Island, Bahamas ; Cayo Paredon Grande, Cuba. 



Figure 259 is from a photograph of the type plant taken at the type locality by Dr. 



C. F. Millspaugh, February 22, 1907. 



234. Opuntia moniliformis (Linnaeus) Haworth in Steu- 

 del, Nom. ed. 2. 2: 221. 1841. 



Cactus moniliformis Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 468. 1753. 

 Cactus ferox Willdenow, Enum. PI. Suppl. 35. 1813. 

 Opuntia ferox Haworth, Suppl. PI. Succ. 82. 1819. 

 Cereus moniliformis De Candolle, Prodr. 3: 470. 1828. 

 CoKJo/ea fcro.v Lemaire, Rev. Hort. 1862: 174. 1862. 

 Opuntia microcarpa Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 714. 



1898. Not Engelmann. 1848. 

 .Nopalea moniliformis Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 750. 



1898. 

 Opuntia t£studinis-crus Weber in Gosselin, Bull. ilus. 



Hist. Nat. Paris 10: 389. 1904. 

 Opuntia haitiensis Britton, Smiths. oSIisc. Coll. 50: 513. 



190S. 



Trunk somewhat ilattened above, 3 to 4 m. high, 

 branching at the top, densely armed with acicular, yel- 

 lowish or gra}^ spines 12 cm. long or less, their bases 

 clothed with yellowish-white wool i to 2 cm. long; joints 

 obliquely linear-oblong to obovate, i to 3 dm. long, 13 cm. 

 wide or less, about i cm. thick, obtuse, distinctl}' areolate- 

 reticulate, the areoles somewhat elevated, i to 1.5 cm. 

 apart, those of young joints bearing near the edges 3 to 6 

 acicular spines i to 2.5 cm. long, those on the sides of the 

 3'oung joints often spineless or with i to 3 yellowish 



Fig. 260. — Opuntia moniliformis on the plain at Azua, Santo Domingo 



