CSSA Journal VOL.67 MARCH-APRIL, 1995 No.2 The "peyote gardens" of south Texas: a conservation crisis? Edward F. Anderson Mexican cactus ethnobotany: the contribution of cacti to the survival of the natives of Baja California F. Vega-Villasante, H. Avilés, G. Montaño, I. Gómez I., J.K. Espinoza, K. Busto, H. Romero-Schmidt & H. Nolasco Echeveria helmutiana and E. chazaroi, two new species from Oaxaca Myron Kimnach Cacti & Succulents for the Amateur Duke Benadom Valley View Succulent Notes Gerald S. Barad Spotlight on Round Robins Braden Engelke The Huntington Botanical Gardens presents the 1995 offering of International Succulent Introductions J.N. Trager & Myron Kimnach The new avonia (Portulacaceae) from northwestern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa Graham Williamson The Opuntia inamoena complex in Brazil. VI. Pierre J. Braun & Eddie Esteves Pereira The new Tylecodon species (Crassulaceae) from the southern Namib Desert (Namibia) and the Richtersveld (Cape Province, Republic of South Africa) Graham Williamson

Cover illustration: There's no doubt about it:Euphorbia piscidermis, from Ethiopia, is one of the most remarkable of succulents. When it is not in flower, no one would suspect it of being a euphorbia. Its globose stems are closely shingled with scale-like appendages (the specific name means "fish-skinned"), such scales being otherwise unknown in the genus. It is a difficult species to grow on its own roots and is usually grafted, a process that encourages such proliferousness as shown on our cover. That plant was exhibited by Frank Horwood in the 1986 CSSA show, where it was beautifully photographed by John N. Trager.