NEOMAMMILLARIA. 10g 
Our description is drawn from the original, supplemented by specimens in the Engel- 
mann Herbarium obtained from Salm-Dyck’s garden in January 1857, which consist cf 
two packets, one containing a few spine-clusters and the other several withered flowers 
and nearly ripe fruits; these latter are labeled ‘Baumann 857... Engelmann and Coulter 
compare this species with Mammillaria micromeris but we believe that it is related to V/. 
elegans and its allies. 
It seems to have been described from specimens of Haage of unknown origin but 
supposed to be from Mexico; Coulter’s reference, on the statement of Budd, that it occurs 
within the southern border of Pecos County, Texas, is to be doubted. 
Coulter renamed Mammillaria microthele because of an older Cactus microthele. 
Martius used the name M. microthele in 1829 (Hort. Reg. Monac. 127) but without descrip- 
tion. The names M. brongniartii Hortus, M. microthele brongniarti, and M. compacta 
Hortus (not Engelmann, 1848) have been used (Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 9. 
1850) but without descriptions. 
Fic. 111.—Neomammnillaria dealbata. 
Fic. 110.—Neomammillaria pseudoperbella. 
61. Neomammillaria pseudoperbella (Quehl). 
Mammillaria pseudoperbella Quehl, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 19: 188. 1909. 
Mammillaria poeudoperbella rufispina Quehl, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 26:94. 1916. 
Solitary, or few together, globose to short-cylindric, very spiny, depressed at apen iberales 
short-cylindric; radial spines 20 to 30, setaceous, white, short; central spines > one e ovate acute 
turned backwards; flowers small, purple; perianth-segments narrow-oblong, with an 
tip; style longer than the filaments, pinkish; stigma-lobes 3, obtuse. 
Type locality: Mexico. 
Distribution: Central Mexico. 
The flowers of this plant were not know 
nnown. An illustration of it was given. Wel 
his illustration and specimen seem to point to “ 
us from Oaxaca by Conzatti Reko, and Solis. . These plants from oexae normal aa 7 
Short, stout, divergent, central spines. In one specimen sent by Pro aad hed and theee 
the central spines are often 2 and 4, with one of the centrals more elonga s 
hear the top of the plant connivent. 
Illustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 19: 189, 
n when first described nor was its exact origin 
have also received a dead plant from Bodeker. 
a species which has been frequently sent to 
as Mammillaria pseudoperbella. 
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