07.92 Opuntia 
, Plant flowering May 6, 1912; joints 15 cm. or less long, 9.5 cm. or 
less wide, 1.5 -cm. or less thick, \¥lien young nearly oval, rich green col- 
ored with dark spots round areoles and extending downward, older ones 
elliptical, dark green with darker and larger spots round areoles; areoles 
1 to 2 cm. apart, on older joints filled v/ith brown glochids.2 to .3 mm, 
long, on ne?/er ones glochids fewer, shorter, lighter colored, and partly 
hidden in small amount of grayish wool from areoles; spines almost lack- 
ing, two on upper edge of oldest joint; joints branch from upper 
flower 5 cm. long; undeveloped fruit sale color as newer joints, 2 c^ 
iii* 
long, terete, tapering downward, 14 imu. largest diameter, bearing areoles 
filled with short, light brown glochids; sepals mostly acuminate, from 
bronze colored to greenish yellow with light bronze tips, grading into 
petals widely obovate v/ith rounding tips, yellow, margins fine, except 
