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Marshall Woodrow in 1888 [Proceedings of the Agri- Horticultural 
Society of Madras, p. 5) remarked that apparently only one Opuntia, 
which he called Opuntia nigricans (i.e., Opuntia elaiior) was commonly 
naturalised in Western India ; but it seemed possible that a second, only 
somewhat distinct Opuntia, mip-ht occur near Poona. In the Proceed- 
ings of the same Society for 1001, p. 9, tiopalea cochinelifera is men- 
tioned as growing well at Poona, hut declining to grow at Madras. 
Either the true Opuntia cochinelifera or Opuntia decumana is intended 
there. In the Dictionary of Economic Products, v, I89i, p. 490, Sir 
George AVatt used the name Opuntia Dillenii in the same wide sense as 
C. B. Clarke. 
In 1894 Ti\\.hoi[[Systematic List of Trees, Shrubs of the Bombay 
Presidency, p. 101) remarked that several species had been introduced 
into India, and \vere wrongly put under Opnintia Dillenii in the Floras. 
Gamble in the second edition of his Manual of Indian Timbers, (1902), 
p. 382, named Opuntia Dillenii and Opuntia (?y spinosissima. Mill., as 
Indian. The iirst he thought to have been the Opuntia grown before 
1 795 at Masulipatam : by the second name he meant Opuntia elatior. 
The Opuntia grown at Masulipatam evidently was Opuntia cochinelifera, 
the Kew Nopal. 
In 1895 in the Records of the Botanical Survey, i, p. 89, Marshall 
Woodrow recorded Opuntia nigricans as occurring about Poona: this 
plant evidently was Opuntia elatior. In the Records, i, 1898, p. 200, 
Gammie recorded Opuntia Dillenii as in the Kangra Valley : this pro- 
bably was Opuntia monacantha. In the Records, ii, (1902)^ p. 107, Wood 
recorded Opuntia Dillenii as occurring in Chota Nagpur : a specimen 
from him preserved at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, is of 
0. monacantha : and in the Records, ii, 1902, p. 181, Gammie recorded 
Opuntia nigricans for Satara and Jambusar, doubtless meaning Opuntia 
elatior. 
Sir Henry Collett in his Flora Simlensis, 1902, p. 446, named 
OpikHia Dillenii as occurring in hedges near Simla. Doubtless by this 
name he meant Opuntia monacantha. 
Dr. Theodore Cooke in his Flora of He Bombay Presidency, i, 1903, 
p. 852, records as occurring Opuntia Dillenii and Opuntia nigricans : 
the latter is Opuntia elatior. 
Colonel Prain [Bengal Plants, 1903, p. 531) names Opuntia DillenD 
only as occurring in Bengal. 
Gammie [Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xv, 1903, p. 286) says 
