Opuntia.} FICOIDEZ. 531 
style terminal, simple, filiform or cylindric ; stigma 2-many-rayed ; 
_ ovules numerous on each placenta, eatcadals anatropous. Fruit 
on Leelled berry with pulpy placentas. Seeds very many, oblong 
_ ot reniform ; testa hard, black; albumen scanty, copious, or 0; 
4 embryo straight or curved; cotyledons free or connate. 
380. Opuntia Mill. 
Shrubs, with rounded woody base; br anches jointed, joints 
fleshy, flattened, ovate, tubercled, the tubercles hirsute and spiny, 
the youngest joints with small, scale-like, deciduous leaflets. 
Flowers lateral, yellow, or purplish. Sepals many, the outermost 
seale-like or leafy, adnate to ovary, the inner short, flat, all con- 
nate ina tubular calyx, not produced beyond the ovary. Petals 
many, spreading, connate below. Stamens very numerous, many- 
seriate ; filaments shorter than petals, free or more or less connate. 
Carpels several, connate in a glabrous, exserted ovary ; ovules 
many, on parietal placentas; style cylindric, hardly exceeding the 
, thickened below, hollow above; stigmatic rays thick, 
frect, several. Frwit a pear-shaped, umbilicate, tubercled berry. 
— compressed; testa very hard, albuminous ; cotyledons leaf- 
896. Opunrta Dintennt Haw.; F. B. I. ii. 657; E. D. 0. 198. 
Cactus indicus F. I. ii. 475. 
Behar; W. Bengal ; Chota Nagpur; Oris 
A spiny shrub with flattened, coli! fleshy stems. 
Vernac. Nag-phana. 
Order LXV. FICOIDEZ. 
usually very small, white, or 0. Stamens ae os or hypo- 
8Ynous, definite or indefinite, sometimes accompani 
Galas ce mNtY 25 20 sepals o opposite to them m, if more some 0 
in bundles; anthers oblong, celled ; dehiscence longi- 
tain introrse. Carpels 2-5, connate, very rarely free, superior, 
Very rarely inferior ; styles as many as sdveaxpils free or connate 
