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5417. Opuntia Mill. 



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

 Kalieber, Kaaka die poesji. 



OuraQao: 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. 



..." Widely dispersed over the three Islands. 



Aruea: ^^^^^ Britton & Shafer 2904. 



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



Tuna elatior^ spinis validis nigrieantibus, in Dill. Hort. Eltham. 

 p. 395, t. 294. 



Curasao : 



Bonaire : 



Not widely dispersed. 



5421. Peireskia Mill. 



Peireslcia 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. Havn. Progr. 

 descr. (1773) 7. 



Curasao: Britton & Shafer 3010. 



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



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

 Ouragao: Bat (5226). 

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

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



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