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MAMMILLARIA* pulchra 



Hmidsome Mammillaria. 



ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



aiHxa. 



Nat. or d. Cacte;e Dec. Trihus Opu7itiacecB ; semina parietibus baccce 



MAMMILLARIA Haworih. — Cotyledones nullae. Sufrutices subro- 

 tundi V. oblongo-cylindrici, crassi, carnosi, absque axe ligneo ; lactescentes 

 (an semper?) apbylli, mammillis spiniferis crebr^ creberrimeve tecti. Flores 

 axillares, inter maramillarum bases. — Haworth synops. svcc. 177. 



M. pulchra; oblongo-cylindrica, spinis subsenis supernis majusculis patulis 

 fulvis; subquatuordenis eodem spinario inferioribus minutis horizon- 



talibus niveis. Haworth MSS. 



Plantae nostrce simplices, perennes, virides, 4-5 unciales, diametrobiuncialt, 

 apice lanatd, depressd, spinis demum intertextis undique tecta. Mammilte 



■n,,^,^.. \ -7 J-. • ...1^ c„„ mo^innr-PS in. civClter 11-1<3 



in circiter 11-13 



hoc genere 



numerosee, ovato-pyramidaleSy majusculcB seu mediocres, in c 

 ordines concinne spiraliter contortupUcatce. Spinarium (tn^ __ 

 insuper mammillarum apices) tomentosum, sub-20-spimgerum. ispinte sut>sex 

 apicales, patuli, seu subsemihorizontales, 6-9, lineares, et scBptHs aliquantil- 

 lum recurvulantes ; aliceque (spinulae) s«i-14 setiformes radtanter hori- 

 zontales, vel suhrecurvce, et c<Bleris multoties minores. Flores m hoc geriere 

 inter majores rosei, parilm infra plantce apicem, per mammUarum axillas 

 lanato-setuligeras subambienter progredientes.-Pone M. fulvispinam Haw. 

 in PhU. Mag. I. c. cui forsan nimis affinis {sed vix), certh locarem 



Haw. MSS. 



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" This figure represents a remarkable and new species 

 of greenhouse plant, of the most succulent kmd, presented, 

 with other Mexican plants, to the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society at Chiswick, by Sir J. Lubbock, in December 

 1826. A great many of its affinities are now m our 

 Gardens ; and they are so impatient of water in winter, tnat 

 they succeed best when planted in small pots ol iignt 

 sandy soil, and each plunged into another larger pot, in 



So called from mamma, a teat: the whole surface of these plants is 

 covered with projections resembling the teats of an annnal. 



