NEOMAMMILLARIA. 105 
Salm-Dyck (Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 15. 1850) mentions Mammillaria kewensis var. 
albispina and also M. spectabilis Hortus as synonyms. 
This plant was named for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 
Illustration: MOllers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 8, No. 3, as Mammillaria kewensis. 
Figure 106 is reproduced from a photograph sent us by L. Quehl in 1921. 
? 57. Neomammillaria subpolyedra (Salm-Dyck). 
~Mammillaria subpolyedra Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 343. 1834. 
Cactus subpolyedrus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 1891. 
Solitary, subcylindric, 10 cm. high, 6 cm. in diameter; tubercles pointed, strongly angled; 
axils and spine-areoles white-woolly; spines 4, at first blackish purple, becoming paler but the tips 
remaining purplish, the lowest one the largest ; flowers 2.5 cm. broad; perianth-segments obtuse, erose, 
with a darker midrib; fruit red, 2.5 cm. long, pyriform, 12 mm. in diameter at apex. 
Fic. 104.—Neomammiillaria conzattil. 
Fic. 105.—Neomammnillaria lanata. 
Type locality: Not cited. . ; 
Distribution: According to Riimpler, Zimap4n and Ixmiquilpan, Mexico. _ 
Some of the illustrations here cited do not correspond very well with the original 
description. This species is listed by Schumann with those unknown to him, and it is 
known to us only from descriptions and illustrations. here but 
Mammillaria polygona Zuccarini (Pfeiffer, Enum. Cact. 17. 1837) is referre _ u 
it was never described. Salm-Dyck afterwards used the name for a very different plant. 
Mammillaria jalappensis and M. anisacantha are referred by Pfeiffer (Enum. Cact. 
17. 1837) as synonyms of M. subpolyedra. 
Illustrations: (?) Férster, Handb. Cact. ed. 2. 357. f. 373 ( how 
565. f. 39; Suppl. 518. f. 557; Watson, Cact. Cult. 176. f. 71; ed. 3.1. 4 
subpolyedra. . . _ 
Figure 107 is reproduced from the illustration used in N 
>) Dict. Gard. Nicholson 4: 
8, as Mammillaria 
icholson’s Dictionary- 
58. Neomammillaria galeottii (Scheidweiler). _ 
Mammillaria galeottii Scheidweiler, Hort. Belge 4:93. 1837. 
Mammillaria obconella galeottit Scheidweiler, Hort. Belge 4793 “Wb Catt. 213. 1846. 
Mammiillaria dolichocentra galeottit Salm-Dyck in Forster, tand “6 teat, 
Mammiillaria dolichocentra phaeacantha Labouret, Monogr. - 50. 
