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like to possess a dead sreoimer of it or some mammillae. 



I cannot teil you anything about Helocactus l never was able to 

 examine it suflf iciently. Why is that not done in the bota^ical War- 

 den of Martinique ?The matter would be easy toto get to the botton. 

 ¥he^ I get time I wart to raise a Cuban Cephal i uw ) . But it is very 

 likely that Monville is correct.-When t^.ere are no tubercula as with 

 Pilocereus, but where they have convertred into ribs there cannot be 



a possibility of conaxillary ir^lo^escence.There should be mertio- 



means 



red that taken verbat im axillary j "sitting in the axis of leaves? 

 that however the mamilla is not a leaf but a protrudirg part of the 

 stem. on which the leaf (if present or indicates) sits* The inflores- 

 cens of Ham\i Ilaria axillaris Zimmermann is not exaot and must be de- 

 fl^ed better, 



"Dans tout le Cact^es tubulersefc - baic lisse iJ ovmf© est t^es 

 court / sifallonge etc Only with the true Maryfliliariae. and specialis 

 with the lac^.^ciita (? E.D. ) , not doe many, which I have seen pictured 

 (M. Grahani, M. Wrightii , etc never itfith Coryphanta. where the fruit 



is not oval. I do rot know, if Leufrjfcenbe^ia has an ovarium 



- ; anyhow the flowers and fruit s are as with Anhalorlum on top 



of the mamN^lla (wrongly called leaves) and as to genus they are 

 close to Cereus , the A nhaloniu m to Coryphanta . 



üo Di sc oc actus a^d Helanoc^rpus really have no scales ?? I do 

 doubt the correctness of your Statement; but cannot dtermine anything 

 about it. 



Your dissertation Gynmospora may be good; I like it, M. raacro- 

 meris however is an exception, 



You speak at one time of PeleCyphpra , and say, that these plants 

 are entirely from Anatolia, which I gladly believe - but you "deter- 

 mine as character , that the flowers come H dti centre d f un vortex 

 caireux 1 '. That is a very innrecise exrression after I showed in the 

 /Illustration the exact formation. and position of the yourc: mammillae 



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