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DF.TE RUINATIONS OF THE 
Opimtia IMISeiiii, Haworth, Supplement. Plant. Succulent., 1819, 
p. 79 : Wight and Arnott, Prodromus FioriS Peninsulae Indiae orlentalis, 
1834, p. 363 (excluding synonyms) : Munro, Ilortus Agrensis, 1814, 
p. 19 ; Wight, Illustrations Ind. Bot., ii, 1850, p. IS, plate 114 : C. B. 
Clarke in Hooker’s Flora Brit. Ind., ii, 1879, p. 657 (in chief part) : 
Gamble, Manual Indian Timbers, 1881, p. 2')8 ( ? in part only) : Kew 
Bulletin, 1888, p. 170 : Cox in Proc. Agri-Hort. Soc. Madras, 1888, 
p. 13; Watt, Diet. Econ. Products, v, 1891, p. 490 (in part): 
Ga?nble, Manual Indian Timbers, 2nd edit., 1902, p. 382 (? in part) : 
To Cooke, Flora Bombay Presidency, i, 1903, p. 852 : Prain, Bengal 
Plants, 1903, p. 531, and in Records Bot. Survey, iii, 1905, p. 218 : 
Brandis, Indian Trees, 1906, p. 346 (in part) ; Watt, Commercial 
Products India, 1908, p. 348 ; Briihl in Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 
1908, p. 619 (in part): Blatter in Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., xviii, 
1908, p. 408. With two pseudonyms. 
Ojmntici vulgaris^ Shortt in Indian Forester, iii, 1878, p. 237 
(presumedly). 
Cactus Titnay Herb. Bottler ; Ainslie, Materia Medica of Hin- 
dustan, 1813, p. 91 ; Wilks, Historical Sketches of the 
South of India, iii, 1817, p. 89 : Watt, Commercial Pro- 
ducts India, 1908, p. 348. 
It must be a matter for warning to all that the name Opuntia 
DiUenii has been used for every one of these four different cacti, the 
name Opuntia Ficus-indica or Cactus Ficus-indica for three of them, and 
Opuntia cochineliferay with some variation in the spelling, for two of 
them. 
OrtimA BECUWANA IS CULTIVATED IN ODIA. 
In the Proceedings of the Ag ri~ Horticultural Society of Madras for 
1888, p. 5, Marshall Woodrow refers to the occurrence of the ^Marge 
thornless Opuntia grown for fruit in Malta and other Mediterranean 
countries in plenty at Poona, but refusing to flower. This Opuntia 
must be Opuntia deeumana. In 1885 independent attempts were made 
to establish this same species in Madras, and in the United Provinces. 
In the Reports on the Operations of the Department of Agriculturey 
Madras Presidency, 1885-86, p. 3, and 1886-87, p. 3, it is recorded that 
it failed in the hotter parts of Madra=?, but was grown successfully in 
the Nilgiris and the Shevaroi hills. It was grown successfully in 
Lucknow. But whether the plant is growing still at Lucknow and 
whether it fruits or does not, has not been recorded. It is growing at the 
