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Mines in Mexico, of which country it is believed to be a 

 native. Treated like other succulents, in a pot of coarse 

 gravelly soil, and subjected to a high temperature, with very 

 little water, it has been found to thrive very well, and 

 flowered in the stove at Carclew in June, 1838. 



" Stem very short, creeping. Leaves numerous, concave, 

 spathulate, and spreading, sessile, thick and fleshy, crowded, 

 and loosely arranged round the stem as a common axis. 

 With the exception of a few in the centre, which are much 

 smaller than the others, the whole are similar in size and 

 form, varying from two to two and a half inches in length, 

 and rather more than an inch in breadth, at the widest part 

 near the apex, from which they gradually taper towards the 

 base, and end at the point in a small mucro. Their colour 

 is a glaucescent green, covered with a fine bloom, which 

 easily rubs off" on being touched. The outer edges and 

 mucro have a brownish tinge. Flower stem round, about a 

 foot high, glaucous pink, rising from one side of the mas^ of 

 leaves, and terminating in a unilateral, deflexed, raceme, 

 of about ten or a dozen flowers. Bracteas small and fleshy, 

 ovate-acuminate, tinged with pink at the point. Pedicels 

 of the earlier flowers about an inch long, diminishing gradu- 

 ally both in size and length towards the extremity of the 

 raceme. Taking the point where they join the stem as a 

 centre, it will be found that each pedicel forms, as near as 

 possible, an angle of about 33° with the stem. Calyx 5-leaved, 

 rotate, spreading, the segments thick and fleshy, lanceolate, 

 acute. Tube upwards of half an inch in length, gibbous at 

 the base, which is a bright yellowish red, narrowing upwards 

 to the mouth, which is acutely five-toothed, a little recurved, 

 and of a deep yellow. Filaments 10, five attached half way 

 down the petals, and the other five at the base opposite each 

 division of the calyx, but all of the same length. Anthers 

 erect, deep yellow. Styles 5, short, and compressed toge- 

 ther, pale,^ shining green. Ovarium five-celled, with numer- 

 ous seeds in each, and having a small fleshy process at the 

 base, intermediate with the segments of the calyx." Booth 

 in Hit, 



For the above account of this pretty plant I am indebted 

 to Mr. Booth. The species is nearest F. ccespitosa, from which 

 it differs in having a one-sided gyrate raceme, and long- 

 stalked scarlet, not yellow, flowers. * 



