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that Opuntia nigricans grows about Karla. Opuntia elatior is doubtless 
meant. 
In 1905 Major A. T. Gage recorded Opuntia monacantha as growing 
at Sidoktaya in the district of Minbu, Burma [Records of the Botanical 
Purvey of India, iii, p. 63). This name is correct. 
Prain in the same volume of the Records, (1905), p. ^18, names 
Opuntia Billenii as found near Calcutta : -this name is also correctly 
used. Heinig [List of Plants of the Chittagong Collect or ate, 1907, 
p. 27) perhaps refers to Opuntia monacantha in recording Opuntia 
Billenii as found in that district. 
Sir Dietrich Brandis [Indian Trees, 1906, p. 316) used the name 
Opuntia Billenii to denote all the Indian species, as in Sir Joseph 
Hooker^s Plora. 
Sir George Watt [Commercial Products of India, 1908, p. 348) names 
the following Opuntias as Indian : — Opuntia decumana, Opuntia Billenii, 
Opuntia Ficus-in dica, and Opuntia monacantha and Opuntia Tima. His 
Opuntia Tuna is Rottler^s Cactus Tuna, which I believe to be Opuntia 
Billenii ; his Opuntia monacantha is correctly named ; his Opuntia 
decumana is Opuntia cochinelifera j his Opuntia Fi cus-indica is 
Opuntia elatior ; his Opuntia Billenii is correctly named. 
Witt [Forest Flora of the Berar Circle, 1908, p. 45) records Opuntia 
Billenii as common in Berar as about Khaudwa. Opuntia elatior is 
the species meant. 
Briihl (Journ. Asiatic ^oc. Bengal, 1908, p. 619) used the name 
Opuntia Billenii in the sense of the Flora of British India. 
Father Blatter^s Opuntia Billenii “ run wild in north Coimbatore 
[Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xviii, 1908, p. 408) is likely to be 
rightly named ; but his Opuntia Billenii not common in Cutch 
[Journ. Bombay. Nat. Hist.- Soc.. xviii, p. 772) is likely to be Opuntia 
elatior. 
Bamber [Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xix, 1910, p. 948) obviously 
refers to both Opuntia elatior and Opuntia monacantha plants 
under the one name of Opuntia Billenii. 
SLMMARY OF SYXOYYMS IIV lYDIAY BOOKS. 
In brief the names in the literature reviewed may thus be put 
together : — 
Opuntia cochinelifera, Miller, trard. Diet., ed. 8, (1768), no. 6. 
With synonyms and pseudonyms as follows 
Opuntia cochinillifera, Voigt, Hortus Suburb. Calcuttensis, 
