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DETEEMINATIONS OF TEV 
One Opuntia “has reached Palestine. 
The Canaries according to Lowe {Manual Flora of Madeira, 1868 
p. 317) contain Opuntia Dillenii and Opuntia Tuna, Mill. ; and accord- 
ing to Pilardand Proust {Les lies Canaries, Paris, 1909, p. 197) 0. Ficus- 
indica i^ in the islands. Possibly Pilard and Proust mean 0. decumana, 
or possi1t)ly something else. It is not clear whether Opuntia hrasiliensis, 
Haw., is wild in the Canaries or not ; for Lowe who in the Botanic 
Magazine, (1868), under plate 3*Z93, said that it had been introduced 
into those islands in his time, does not state anything about the mode of 
its occurrence there. Among the four species which my sister detected 
in Gran Canary is either 0. monacantka or 0. hrasiliensis. I have a 
plant In cultivation ; but it is at present too young for determination. 
I have seen undoubted specimens of Opuntia Dillenii from the Canaries 
— my sister inform^ me that about Las Palmas it abounds — , and also 
specimens of Opuntia decumana. 
Madeira contains, according to Lowe, Opuntia Tuna which rarely 
in that island sports in producing plants with flowers, which, instead 
of being dull red in colour, are of a clear bright yellow, i.e., it approaches 
O. Dillenii. 
The Cape contains Opuntia monacantha, Opuntia decumana, perhaps 
Opuntia triacantha, DC., and possibly Opuntia elatior, or if not a very 
kindred species. Oldenburg collected the first named at the Cape in 1772. 
Karl Schumann says, in his Ferhreituny der Cactacem, p. 30, that 
Opuntia Tuna is wild in Namaland ; but then it is uncertain what his 
O. Tuna was. 
Mauritius contains Opuntia monacantha, and possibly also Opuntia 
decumana. 
Madagascar contains Opuntia monacantha. 
Zanzibar possesses Opuntia monacantha. 
The Red Sea coast possesses Opuntia decumana. 
Java contains Opuntia elatior : and Opuntia Dillenii is recorded 
for it. 
Blanco’s words {Flora de Filipinas, 1837, p. 411) ^^con grupos de 
cerdas tiesas, de las cuales una dos son mas largas seein to indicate 
that an Opuntia like Opuntia Dillenii was in the Philippines when he 
wrote . 
Lourelro {Flora Cochi nchinensis, 1790, p. 306) records a- Cactus 
Ficus-indica for Cochinchina, which may have been Opuntia mona- 
cantha.^ 
^ The evidence that Loureiro’s Cochinchina plant was Opuntia monacantha rests 
on his remark that he had also seen it in Bengal and elsewhere in India ; and what he 
^aw in Bengal must have been Opuntia monacantka. It is very weak evidence 
however 
