CSSA VOL.68 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1996 No.5 Spine variability in Copiapoa Attila Kapitany Gerald Barad receives CSSA's Special Service Award Larry W. Mitich Sedum copalense, a new species from Sinaloa, Mexico Myron Kimnach Cacti and Succulents in Japan. Part 3 - Some cultivars of Astrophytum asterias and A. myriostigma Aikichi Kobayashi An introduction to the genus Brachystelma Ralph Peckover The genus Adenium in cultivation. Part 5: Superior cultivars Mark A. Dimmitt The genus Schwantesia Dinter Norbert F. A. Zimmermann Unique formation of spur branches in Fouquieria splendens Engelm. (octillo) growing in the Chihuahuan Desert Keith T. Killingbeck Spotlight on Round Robins Braden Engelke & Rita Fleischmann Cacti & Succulents for the Amateur Duke Benadom A successful search for Mammillaria sinistrohamata Böd. and M. wagneriana Böd. W. A. & Betty Fitz Maurice Valley View Succulent Notes Gerald S. Barad, MD South Africa's new provinces

Cover illustration: Euphorbia ferox was discovered by Rudolph Marloth in the central part of Cape Province, South Africa, and named by him in 1915 for its fierce spination. It's an easily grown plant and a popular one, too, because of its green stems, pink spines and yellow cyathia, here nicely displayed in a photo by Darl Bickel.