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Fig. 297. — Opuntia keyensis. 



Type locality: Boot Key, Florida. 



Distribution: Hammocks, Florida Keys and Cape 

 Sable. 



Opuntia keyensis was first collected by Dr. Britton in 

 1909 on Boot Key, Florida. Plants brought subsequently 

 by Dr. Small from the Keys to Buena Vista, Miami, and 

 there observed by him under cultivation show the spe- 

 cies to be distinct from either 0. dillenii or 0. stricta, 

 with both of which it has been associated. 



Illustration: Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 20: pi. 225. 



Figure 297 is from a photograph of the plant in 

 cultivation at Buena Vista, Miami, Florida; figures 298 

 and 299 show its flowers, collected by Dr. Small on Key 

 Largo, Florida, in 1909. See also plate xxx, figure i. 



183 a. Opuntia bonplandii (HBK.) Weber, Diet. Hort. 

 Bois 894. 1898. (See page 168, ante.) 



Figs. 298 and 299. - 

 keyensi; 



-Flower of Opuntia 

 X0.5. 



Cactus bonplandii Humboldt, Bonpland, and Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6: 69. 1823. 



Plants tall, 2 to 4 meters high, open-branching; joints ovate to obovate, 2 to 3 dm. long, dull 

 green; spines at first 2 to 7, pale yellow, acicular, i to 1.5 cm. long but soon falling off; flowers orange- 

 colored, about 6 cm. long and nearly as broad when fully expanded ; petals obtuse ; stamens short. 



Type locality: Cuenca, Ecuador. 

 Distribution: Ecuador. 



This species was collected by Humboldt and Bonpland at Cuenca, Ecuador, and 

 was first described as Cactus {Opuntia) bonplandii. Apparently the type was not pre- 



