iSt} ' 47. CACTE.'E. [Opnulia. 



OPUNTIA^MilL 



Branches jointed^ joints ovate flat, bearing tufts of unequal spines 

 and bristles. Flowers arising from the tufts or margins of the joints, 

 yellow or reddish. Calyx-tube not produced beyond the ovary ; lobes 

 numerous. Petals numerous; connate at the base, spreading. Stamens 

 indefinite, in many series. Style cylindric, thicker below^ constricted 

 at the base ; stigma with 2-7 thick, erect branches. Fruit pyriform, 

 iieshy, often with spines. Seeds with a bard testa. Albumen scanty 

 or copious, 



0. milenii, Haw. FL Br. I. 2. Qhl ; Brandis For. FI. 245 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. F. Suppl. 39. Prickly-pear. Ohappal send^ Vern. Natural- 

 ized throughout the presidency in dry waste places, FL throughout the- 

 Year. Several introduced species are included under the name 0, Billenii, 

 which is said to be rather lare in India. 



Order 47. ARALIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent. Leaves alte-nate, simple 

 or compound, long-petioled. Stipules adnate to the petiole, or 0. 

 Flowers regular, sometimes polygamous in umbels^, racemes or 

 panicled heads ; pedicels continuous with the base of the calyx or 

 there jointed ; bracts and bracteoles small or conspicuous. Calyx- 

 tube adnate to ovary ; limb truncate, obsolete or with small teeth. 

 Petals 5, rarely more, valvate, expanding or deciduous in a cap. 

 Stamens as many as and alternate with the petals, inserted round an 

 epigynous disk. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, or cells as many as the 

 stamens j styles distinct or united ; ovules solitary and pendulous iii 

 each cell. Fruit small, seed pendulous, albumen uniform or ruminate. 



1. HEPTAPLEURUM, Ga3rtn. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves digitate; leaflets 

 coriaceous, usually entire; stipules connate within the petiole and 

 prominent. Umbels panicled or in compound racemes ; bracts w^oolly ; 

 pedicels not jointe<l ; bracteoles few or 0. Calyx-margin toothed or 

 truncate. Petals 5-6 or many, valvate. Stamens as many as petals. 

 Ovary cells as many as petals, disk large or small ; styles small, 

 separate or combined in a column. Fruit subglobose, 5-6-angled ; 

 albumen uniform. 



Leaflets with prominent nervures on the 



tipper surface ... ... 1. H. venulosum.- 



Leatieta with nervures not prominent above. 2. S. Wallichianum, 



1 . H. venulosum, Seem. Rev. Heder. 44 ; Fl. Br. L 2. 729 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl. 2i9; Bedd. PI. Sylv. 122. JEtawanito, M. ; Tengar balU, huU 

 ])achhi balU, K. 



