. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. 203 229. Opuntia nashii Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 446. 1905. Tree-like, or sometimes bushy, dull green; main axis round, i to 4 meters high, 5 to 12 cm. in diameter, spiny; branches flat or becoming round below, the principal ones continuous, i meter long or more, 6 cm. wide or less, crenate, blunt; lateral branches opposite or alternate, oblong to linear-oblong, often 3 dm. long, and 8 cm. wide, only about 6 mm. thick, blunt, crenate; areoles i to 3 cm. apart, slightly elevated; spines mostly 5 at each areole (2 to 5), diverg
. Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. OPUNTIA. 203 229. Opuntia nashii Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 446. 1905. Tree-like, or sometimes bushy, dull green; main axis round, i to 4 meters high, 5 to 12 cm. in diameter, spiny; branches flat or becoming round below, the principal ones continuous, i meter long or more, 6 cm. wide or less, crenate, blunt; lateral branches opposite or alternate, oblong to linear-oblong, often 3 dm. long, and 8 cm. wide, only about 6 mm. thick, blunt, crenate; areoles i to 3 cm. apart, slightly elevated; spines mostly 5 at each areole (2 to 5), divergent, slender, straight, light gray, pungent, the longer 3 to 6 cm. long; glochids very small, brownish; ovary 3 cm. long, cm. thick, somewhat clavate, tubercled, the tuber- cles bearing areoles and spines similar to those of the joints, but the spines somewhat shorter; flowers cm. broad when ex- panded, red; petals broadly oval to obovate, blunt, about 8 mm. long, much longer than the stamens. Type locality: Inagua, Bahamas. Distribution: Andros, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, Atwood Cay, Caicos Islands, Turks Islands, Ship Channel Cay, and Inagua, Bahamas. Figure 252 is from a photograph of a plant at Matthew Town, Inagua, Bahamas, taken by George V. Nash, in 1904; figure 253 is from a photograph of a plant from the same place in the collection of the New York Botanical Garden. 230. Opuntia bahamana sp. nov. Branched from near the base, bushy, about m. high; joints oblong to lanceolate, flat, and thin, i to 5 dm. long, 4 to 10 cm. wide, dull green, obtuse, scarcely undulate; leaves red, subulate, 3 cm. long; areoles to 3 cm. apart, scarcely elevated, about 2 mm. in diameter, spineless, or bearing i to 4 acicular yel- low spines 2 cm. long or less when young; glochids few and short; flower about 6 cm. broad; petals obovate. rose-tinted below, yel- lowish rose above; sepals dark rose, whitish margined. Distribution: Rocky slopes, The Bright, Cat Island, Ba- hama
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