. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. APPENDIX. 221 terete, slightly spirally twisted; flowers usually several on a joint, conspicuous; sepals subulate to lanceolate, acute; corolla yellow, 7 to 9 cm. wide; petals numerous, the inner ones broadly obovate to flabellate, erose at the broad minutely mucronate apex; berries clavate, 5 to cm. long, red or reddish purple, many-seeded; seeds about 5 mm. in diameter. Type locality: Twelve miles west of Gainesville, Florida. Distribution: Pinelands, northern peninsular Florida. It was first observed by Dr. Small near Gainesville, Florid
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. APPENDIX. 221 terete, slightly spirally twisted; flowers usually several on a joint, conspicuous; sepals subulate to lanceolate, acute; corolla yellow, 7 to 9 cm. wide; petals numerous, the inner ones broadly obovate to flabellate, erose at the broad minutely mucronate apex; berries clavate, 5 to cm. long, red or reddish purple, many-seeded; seeds about 5 mm. in diameter. Type locality: Twelve miles west of Gainesville, Florida. Distribution: Pinelands, northern peninsular Florida. It was first observed by Dr. Small near Gainesville, Florida, in 1917, and plants were taken to Mr. Charles Deering's cactus garden at Buena Vista, Miami, where it has grown luxuriantly, flowering and fruiting freely alongside of 0. pollardii which it resembles in habit, but differs from in its long clavate berries and more numerous petals. Figure 290 shows joints of the plant; figure 291 shows its fruit. 127 a. Opuntia macateei sp. nov. (See page 133, ante.) Small prostrate plant; joints to 6 cm. long, orbicular to obovate, glabrous, dull green, in age somewhat tuberculate; leaves linear, 10 mm. long or less, green; spines i to 3, brownish, the longer ones up to cm. long; flowers, including the ovary, 8 to 10 cm. long, 7 to 8 cm. broad, yellow with a red center; ovary subcylindric, 5 to 6 cm. long, bearing conspicuous leaves, some- times 12 mm. long. Differs from related species by its small joints and slender, elongated, leafy ovaries. Collected by W. "L,. MacAtee at Rockport, Texas, December 28, 1910 (No. 1992). Figures 292 and 293 represent the joints and flower of the plant. 159 a. Opuntia soederstromiana sp. nov. (See page 154, ante.) Sometimes spreading and bushy, but usually erect, 6 to 10 dm. high, very spiny; joints obovate, 2 to 4 dm. long, bright green when young, or sometimes slightly glaucous, grayish green in age; leaves subulate, small, reddish at top; spines at first 2 to 5, but in age 10 or more, when you
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