CSSA VOL.76, March-April 2004 No.2 A new garden at Lotusland. The Merritt Dunlap Cactus Collection. Virginia Hayes and Paul Mills The Huntington Botanical Gardens presents the 2004 offering of International Succulent Introductions John N Trager Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Crassulaceae - Book Review Charles H Uhl Pilosocereus mollispinus P. J. Braun & Esteves - A new species of Cactaceae from the state of Goiás and comments on other Pilosocereus species from Central Brazil Pierre J Braun and Eddie Esteves Pereira Bradleya 21 - Book Review D Russell Wagner Pachypodium makayense, A New Species From Madagascar John J Lavranos Haseltonia 9 - Book Review Colin Walker Superb Succulents Duke Benadom Succulents on Stamps - Adansonia digitata Peg Spaete Echeveria unguiculata, A new species from northeastern Mexico Myron Kimnach Flora of Pakistan, No. 209 - Book Review Reid Moran Bromeliads for the contemporary garden - Book Review D Russell Wagner Three large-flowered ceropegias and their hybrids Gordon Rowley

On the cover.This thumb-size slugabed Conophytum ectypum subsp brownii was photographed by D Russell Wagner in May 2003 near the eastern end of Ratelpoort, a quartz ridge spanning Bulletrap and Concordia in Namaqualand (South Africa). The plant's grout-like habit is typical for the subspecies, which adapts to niches terminally confining for other, larger, plants. Despite their deep dormancy, several neighboring specimens were in flower, displaying a range of white-eyed pinks. We saw one pure white flower and looked in vain for the fiery reds reported by Roy Littlewood in 1959 and unseen since. Red flowers did reveal themselves further south, just east of Springbok. Here, C.ectypum subsp brownii has intermingled thoroughly with the yellow-petalled C.bilobum. A striking melange, first collected by the beetle expert Charles Koch ca. 1948, this was named C.marnierianum Tischer in 1956 and is the best-loved natural hybrid in Aizoaceae. SH & RW