146 THE CACTACEAE. 
Illustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 22: 178, as Mammillaria kunzeana. 
Plate xiv, figure 1, is of a plant obtained by Dr. Rose in 1912 from W. Mundt as 
Mammillaria bocasana, which flowered in the New York Botanical Garden, April 21, 1914. 
115. Neomammillaria hirsuta (Bédeker). 
Mammillaria hirsuta B6deker, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 29: 130. 1919. 
Solitary or becoming cespitose, globose, about 6 cm. in diameter; tubercles 10 mm. long, 
in 8 or 13 spiraled rows, cylindric, their axils setose; spine-areoles naked; radial spines about 20, 
white, 10 to 15 mm. long; central spines 3 or 4, the lower one hooked; flowers small, 10 mm. long; 
fruit and seeds unknown. 
Type locality: Mexico. 
Distribution: Mexico, but range unknown. 
The plant was exhibited by de Laet at Contich, Belgium, in 1914, as sent to him by 
Mrs. Nichols, presumably from northern Mexico. 
Illustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 29: 131, as Mammillaria hirsuta. 
Fic. 160.—Neomammillaria mercadensis. Fic. 161.—N. multihamata. 
116. Neomammillaria multihamata (Bodeker). 
Mammillaria multihamata Bodeker, Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 25:76. I915. 
Short-cylindric, about 5 cm. in diameter; tubercles cylindric, setose in their axils; spine- 
areoles white-lanate; radial spines 25, acicular, white, 8 mm. long; central spines 7 to 9, several 
of them hooked; flowers numerous from near top of plant, small, 1.5 cm. long; inner perianth- 
segments narrow, acute, spreading; seeds blackish brown. 
Type locality: Mexico. 
Distribution: Mexico, but range unknown. 
This plant is in the trade. A specimen was sent us in 1914 by L. Quehl, but it never 
flowered and soon died. 
I llustration: Monatsschr. Kakteenk. 25: 77, as Mammillaria multihamata. 
Figure 161 is reproduced from a photograph furnished by L. Quehl. 
117. Neomammillaria longicoma sp. nov. 
_Cespitose, often forming broad clumps; individual specimens 3 to 5 cm. in diameter; tubercles 
conic, 4 to 5 mm. long, dark green, obtuse, bearing long white hairs in their axils; radial spines 25 OF 
more, weak and hair-like, more or less interlocking; central spines 4, 10 to 12 mm. long, brown 
above, a little paler below, 1 or 2 hooked; flowers from axils of upper tubercles; outer perianth- 
segments pinkish, darker along the center; inner perianth-segments lanceolate, acute, nearly white 
or sometimes tinged with rose; stamens and style much shorter than the inner perianth-segments, 
stigma-lobes 3, cream-colored. 
The plant is common about San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where it was collected by Dr. E. 
Palmer in 1905 (type) and by Mrs. Irene Vera in 1912. We have had it in cultivation since 
