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In regard to the various das sificat Ions of the genus Hannilaria, , , 

 I do not doubt for one moment,that your Observation concerning the 

 erroup Eunannilaria is correct, nanely, , that with then also the 

 f ruit-knot is really not innersum. But it may lie hidden in a tiny 

 depression bettyeen the mammae,so that it does not protru.de in any way 

 durlng f lowering or even soon after fadlng, whereas it Is lmmedlate- 

 ly visible with the Coryphantae ♦3etween the two vro'ivs stand the 

 L o n g i n a nn a e , wh i c h. have larger , f ewer, vellow f lowers, with whon the f ruit- 

 knot protrud.es innediately.To this oones, at least for us in Europe,* 

 another, small pecularity. While the Eunannilariae always set fru.it 

 after f lowering, the f Loders of the Coryphantae (and the Lon^inannae ) 

 often miscarry with out setting fruit* As to Classification,! believe, 

 that the most iinportant issue is to recoruize the differences exact- 

 lyythe^ it bacomes of no importance, if one separates the Coryphantae 

 fron the Hannilariae , o^ not, and I would rather decide now for the 

 view of Engelmanns About the stränge Man» nicroneri s I cannot pernit 

 nyself any judgement, as I have never seen a live specinen of it. 



M; spharelata : Salm puts this Man. in the first dlvision of his 

 Centri splnae , which he charac terizes- as lf namillis plus ninusve suerulo 

 adventitio barbato supra notatis H . If your spharelata does not show 

 a notch', it may hardly be the genuine one. I nyself have seen the 

 true spharelata only in small not T *ell developed specimens so f ar . 

 There were sone later introductions fron a exico of other, small Manni - 

 lariae , which also did not develop properly,and which were very simi- 

 lar to spharelata but probably not identlcal». 



vo-lida If your valida is identlcal with ny pachythele I 

 can only guess, but not decide any nore as of the latter nothing is 

 left any nore but ny descriptlon of 15 years ago». I found a number of 

 nannilarlae near La Rinconada cn a hlll, which is called : De la cruz,. 

 in the Company of E. louhothele and E. caprlcornls . which from a near 



