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dktkrminatiojss of the 
and places to the west of N%pur ; Amraoti ; Ellichpur ; Khandwa ; 
Asirgaon. Kajpiitaiia : — At Kishongarh near Jaij ur. Bombay : — 
Plentiful in Gujarat about Ahmedabad, and in the Kaira district at 
Nariad and Borlavi ; Baroda ; Surat ; about Bombay ; in the Tapti valley 
at Nauduibar ; at Poona, practically the only Cactus present ; presumedly 
the Cactus found at Karla (Gammie), and at Satara (Gammie), and at 
Jambusar (Gammie); very plentiful at Dharwar. Dominions : — 
Common about Hyderabad. Madras : — Bellary, in association with the 
next; about the town of Madras ; very plentiful all down the Circars 
from the Orissa border to Bezwada. 
On the railway line embankments about Barh in Behar I have found 
a plant with nearly seedless fruits, analogous to the seedless forms of 
Opiintia dec u yn a n . 
Opuntia Dilienii : -Is the common Cactus of the south of India, 
where it often makes great thickets around villages : it is less cominon 
in the north of India. United Provinces : — About Saharanpur ; north 
of xVgra about Cliata ; and at Gorakhpur (Ilarsukh 21.'388) ; east of 
Cawnpur along the East Indian Railway and general through Alla- 
habad and Mirzapur. Bengal: — Arrah ; Dumraon ; rare about Banki- 
pur ; Patna; along the railway line between Patna and Barh ; Kotal- 
pakur in the Sonthal Perganas ; Raniganj in the Bard wan district ; 
Goghat in the hlughli district (Hossein) and near Calcutta. Nizam's 
Dominions : — Plentifully about Hyderabad, Warangal and Kazipe^. 
Madras : — Ml along the east coast, often within reach of salt spray, ^ or 
on the very edge of salt pans in the districts of Gan jam and Vizaga- 
patam, Bezwada and at Madras; inland in the direction of Parla- 
kimedi only as i^r as Tekkali, and there obviously recently planted ; 
very common around the villages near Bellary ; sent to me by Mr. J. 
W. Molllson from the Nellore district. Mysore ; — Formerly, if not still 
, (see p. 301). Uoorg : — Formerly, if not still, at Mercara (Hohenacker) . 
Uereiis pteroffonns : — The columnar Cactus. — Bengal : — Common 
about PurneaU ; Dumraon ; Goghat in the Hughli district (Hossein) ; 
and very common at Mihijan in the Sonthal Perganahs ; Raniganj in the 
Bardwan district ; and in Orissa. Eastern Bengal : — Serajganj ; 
Dacca. Burma: — Akyab (Townsend); Yamethin (Rigg) ; Toungoo 
It is interesting in this connection to note Thiery de Menonville’s remark 
{Truite de la Culture du Nopal, 1787, p. 274), “ Une espece est le tuna de Dillenius ; 
c’est celie . . . que Ics colons de iSaint Domicgue appelle raquette des bords du 
laev. " This raquette of the sta shore, if not Opuntia Dlllenit\ is some near ally. 
