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MAMMILLARIA* pulchra. 

 Handsome Mammillaria. 



ICOSANDRIA MO NOG YNIA . 



Nat. ord. Cacte^e Dec. Tribus Opuntiacece ; semina parietibus baccge 

 affixa. 



MAMMILLARIA Haworth. — Cotyledones nullae. Suffrutkes subro- 

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

 (an semper?) aphylli, mammillis spiniferis crebre creberrimeve tecti. Flores 

 axillares, inter maramillarum bases. — Haworth synops. succ. 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, diametro biunciali, 

 apice lanatd, depressd, spinis demum intertextis undique tectce. Mammillae 

 numerosce, ovato-pyramidales, majusculce seu mediocres, in circiter 11-13 

 ordines concinnt spiraliter confer tuplicat(B. Spinarium (in hoc genere 

 insuper mammillarum apices) tomentosum, sub-20-spinigerum. Spinse subsex 

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

 lum recurvulantes ; aliceque (spinulae) sub-14: setiformes radianter hori- 

 zontales, vel subrecurvce, et cceteris multoties minores. Flores in hoc genere 

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

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

 in Phil. Mag. I. c. cui forsan nimis affinis {sed vix), certe locarem. — 

 Haw. MSS. 



" This figure represents a remarkable and new species 

 of greenhouse plant, of the most succulent kind, 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 in our 

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

 they succeed best when planted in small pots of light 

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



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

 ^■covered with projections resembling the teats of an animal. 



