148 THE CACTACEAE. 
171; Rev. Hort. Belg. 40: after 186; Tribune Hort. 4: pl. 139 (these four illustrations are 
all from the same source); Mollers Deutsche Gart. Zeit. 25: 475. f. 8, No. 25; Monatsschr. 
Kakteenk. 29: 81, as Mammillaria bocasana cristata. 
Plate xiv, figure 2, shows a plant, collected by S. S. Hordes in 1915, which flowered 
in the New York Botanical Garden, May 11, 1916. Figure 163 shows a plant received from 
San Luis Potosi through Mrs. Irene Vera in 1912. 
119. Neomammillaria multiformis sp. nov. 
Cespitose, forming dense clumps, sometimes 25 or more from a single root, either globose or 
much elongated and 3 to 6 times as long as thick; tubercles terete, 6 to 8 mm. long, their axils 
bearing long white bristles and white wool; radial spines 30 or more, acicular, 8 mm. long, yellow 
Fic. 164.—Neomammillaria multiformis. 
or at least becoming so, ascending; central spines 4, a little longer and stouter than radials, 
nearly erect, reddish in upper part, one of them strongly hooked; flowers deep purplish red, 8 to 
10 mm. long, usually broader than long; innner perianth-segments oblong, acute; filaments red; 
fruit nearly globose, at least when dry; seeds black. 
Collected by Dr. E. Palmer at Alvarez, near San Luis Potosi, Mexico, in May 1905 
(No. 591, type, and No. 592). | 
Figure 164 is from a photograph made from Dr. Palmer’s specimen just after it was 
received in Washington. 
120. Neomammillaria scheidweileriana (Otto). 
Mammillaria glochidtata sericata Lemaire, Cact. Gen. Nov. Sp. 40. 1839 
Mammillaria scheidwetleriana Otto in Dietrich, Allg. Gartenz. 9: 179 1841 
Mammillaria wildiana rosea Salm-Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. 1849. 81 , 18 O. 
Cactus schetdweilerianus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 261. 18091. Oo ” 
Mammillaria monancistria* Berg in Schumann, Gesamtb. Kakteen 533. 18098. 
* The publication of Mammillaria monancistria i ua erre 6 bt e 
d cistria is usually d to Férster’s Handbuch (254. 184 ut th 
name occurs there without description. referred t rster's (254.1 ), 
